ECON401: Senior Seminar: Websites

Evanston Public Library Board of Trustees. 2008. "Evanston Public Library Strategic Plan, 2000-2010: A Decade of Outreach." Evanston Public Library. Accessed July 19 2008. http://www.epl.org/library/strategic-plan-00.html

(Evanston Public Library 2008)

Notes and Bibliography (pg. 739):

     5. Julie Bosman, "Jets? Yes! Sharks! Si in Bilingual 'West Side,'" New York Times, July 17, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/theater/17byway.html

Author-Date (pg. 807):

Carey, Benedict. 2008. "For the Brain, Remembering is Like Reliving." New York Times, September 4. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/science/05brain.html

Before you cite your website, make sure its not one of the following:

• Article in an online database
• Scholarly article on a websites
• Magazine article on a website
• Newpaper article on a website
• Blog
• Twitter
• Any other form of media (such as a video, slideshow, sound recording, image, etc.)

These types of sources need to be cited primarly as their format type, while mentioning that they were found online. Websites, on the otherhand, are primarly cited as being websites.

When citing a website, you need to look for 5 elements:

1. Title of overall website
2. Title of post, or the name of the specific webpage, or part of the website you're using
3. Author (if there is one)
4. Date published (if there is one)
5. URL

Most of the confusion surrounding website citations come from correctly identying those 5 elements on a website. Here is an example of where I found the 4 elements when I was citing the webpage: http://factcheck.org/2012/03/alaskan-island-giveaway/