Referencing and Plagiarism Guide: Online Resources & Websites

Online Dictionary

Reference List

Group or Corporate Author. (Year). Term searched. In Title of dictionary italicised. Publisher (if same as the author, omit). Retrieved Month Date, Year, from URL

Merriam-Webster. (n.d.). Woke. In Merriam-Webster.com dictionary. Retrieved August 24, 2024, from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/woke

Where an online dictionary is constantly updated and not archived, use n.d. for the date of publication and include "Retrieved" and date of retrieval.

In-text

(Entry Title, Year)

(Merriam-Webster, n.d.)

Reference List

Author Surname, Initial/s.  (Year). Title of article. In Editor/s initial/s. Surname (Ed.), Title of Encyclopaedia. Publisher. URL

Hurthouse, R. & Pettigrove, G. (2022). Virtue ethics. In E. N. Zalta & U. Nodelman (Eds.), Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. Stanford University. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-virtue/

Note:

• the title moves to the author position when there is no author
• if the author and publisher are the same, omit the publisher
• include a retrieval date when the source material may change over time
• if there is no date on the webpage, replace the year with (n.d.).

In-text

(Author Surname, Year)

(Hurthouse & Pettigrove, 2022)

Webpage on a website

Reference List

Author Surname, Initial/s. or Corporate Author. (Year). Title of webpage. URL

Diabetes W. A. (2024). Learning about diabetes prevention. https://www.diabeteswa.com.au/prevention/

In-text

(Author Surname or Corporate Author, Year)

(Diabetes W. A., 2024)

If the Reference List contains more than one work by the same author, the Reference List should be sorted alphabetically by author then by date. If there are multiple duplicate authors in the same year, alphabetic lower case letters are used to distinguish between entries as per below example.

Reference List

Diabetes W. A. (2024a). Learning about diabetes prevention. https://www.diabeteswa.com.au/prevention/

Diabetes W. A. (2024b). How do we know if we are eating healthily? https://www.diabeteswa.com.au/how-do-we-know-if-we-are-eating-healthily

In-text 

(Diabetes W. A., 2024a)

(Diabetes W. A., 2024b) 

Webpage with no date

Reference List

Author Surname, Initial. or Corporate Author; (n.d.). Title of page. URL.

National Health andf Medical Research Council (n.d.). Vitamin K for newborns. https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/health-advice/childrens-health-and-development/vitamin-k-newborns

In-text

(Author Surname or Corporate Author, Year)

(National Health and Medical Research Council, n.d.)

Webpage on a news website

Reference list entry

Author Surname, Initial/s. or Corporate Author. (Year, Month day). Title of article in italics. Website name. URL 

In-text citation

(Author Surname or Corporate Author, Year)

Or

Author Surname or Corporate Author (Year)

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