Cite+Resources

How to cite your resources?

To create a text citation, you'll need to collect four pieces of information from the web page.

If no author name can be found, use the editor or the compiler of the information. ||
 * Information Needed || Explanation ||
 * 1. Author || Usually at top or bottom of page. Use this format: Lastname, Firstname MI.
 * 2. Title || Usually at the top of the web page or in the title bar of the browser window. ||
 * 3. URL || The web address, starting with http:// ||
 * 4. Date || The date on the page or the date you are looking at the page. Use this format: January 1, 2000 ||


 * Author. Title. [Online] Available http://address/filename, Date. ||

Example of a finished citation:
 * Savage, Anne. How to Cite a Web Resource. [Online] Available http://www.tekmom.com/cite/index.html, January 5, 2011. ||

To cite an image (graphic, picture, map, photo)


 * Description or title of image. [Online image] Available http://address/filename, Date. ||

Example of a final citation:
 * Two beluga whales. [Online image] Available http://www.seaworld.org/beluga_whales/beluga_col.gif, January 5, 2011. ||

How to cite a website within your paragraph: 1. Remember to put quotation marks at the beginning and end of the quote you took from a website. 2. After your end quote, you will put a set of parentheses around the name of the website, a comma, and the date it was published. 3. Your ending punctuation will come after your parenthesis. See examples below taken from: APA citation examples 
 * **Source** ||  **Reference List Citation**  ||
 * **Entire Web site** || If you refer to an entire Web site, you do not need to include an entry for it in your reference list, but must identify the source clearly in the text of your paper. For example:

The Sea Turtle Restoration Project homepage presents a wealth of compelling, well-researched information on the struggle to save the world's sea turtles from extinction (http://www.seaturtles.org). || **In-text Citation:** (Sea Turtle Restoration Project, 2006) ||
 * **A specific page within a Web site** || Sea Turtle Restoration Project. (2006). //Threats to sea turtles//. Retrieved from http://seaturtles.org/section.php?id=104

Resource used for this page: [|Cite Resources] and http://www.umuc.edu/library/guides/apa.shtml#intext