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UniSQ Oxford Referencing Guide

Oxford referencing style for UniSQ

Websites, webpages

How to reference websites, webpages

  • Include the author's name where possible. An author may be a corporation or organisation. 
  • Where there is no identifiable author or authoring body, use the title of the webpage or website.
  • Use the date of the last web page update or web document update as the year of publication.
  • When citing information from a webpage with text and no page numbers of PDF use para. (for paragraph).

 

The standard format for referencing web pages (part of a larger site) or web documents is as follows:

Footnote

Author First and Last Name, Title of Page or Publication, City, Publisher, year, URL, [Access date].

Bibliographic citation

Author Last Name, First Name. Title of Page or Publication. City: Publisher, year. URL, [Access date].

 

Web document

Reference Example
Footnote Anti-Discrimination Commission Queensland, Aboriginal People in Queensland: A Brief Human Rights History, Brisbane, Anti-Discrimination Commission Queensland, 2017. 
Bibliographic citation Anti-Discrimination Commission Queensland. Aboriginal People in Queensland: A Brief Human Rights History. Brisbane: Anti-Discrimination Commission Queensland, 2017. 

Web page

Reference Example
Footnote Lyndall Ryan, William Pascoe, Jennifer Debenham, Stephanie Gilbert et al., Colonial Frontier Massacres, Australia (Date Range: 1780 to 1930), 2019, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/map.php [Accessed 14 April, 2020].
Bibliographic citation Ryan, Lyndall, William Pascoe, Jennifer Debenham, Stephanie Gilbert et al., Colonial Frontier Massacres, Australia (Date Range: 1780 to 1930), 2019. https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/map.php [Accessed 14 April, 2020].
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