Category Archives: Using references

How do you cite an entire website (but not a specific document on that site)?

How do you cite an entire website (but not a specific document on that site)?

When citing an entire website, it is sufficient to give the address of the site in just the text.

Example:

Kidspsych is a wonderful interactive website for children (http://www.kidspsych.org).

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When do you include a retrieval date in a citation?

When do you include a retrieval date in a citation?

When a citation includes a digital object identifier (DOI; see Electronic Sources and Locator Information [PDF]), no further retrieval information is needed.

When a DOI is not available, and a URL is included, do not include retrieval dates unless the source material may change over time (e.g., wikis).

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Self-Plagiarism: Office of Research Integrity

Office of Research Integrity.

Although it lacks enough specific examples, it is still one of the better handouts on plagiarism issues. Most other guides were designed for humanities and social science undergraduate writing like the Purdue OWL site and don’t begin to capture the complexity of problems in using references.