Web pages with no author


You may need to consult more than one section of Re:cite to accurately represent the source used. Your citation may look different depending on the number of authors it has. Check the About Chicago B page for further advice.


In-text citation example

... explores transgenerational legacies ("Unfinished Business", n.d.).

OR

…represented by ideas which have been evolving (ACCA Education 2018).

Reference list

Reference list template

“Title/description of the page.” Year of publication or revision. Title/description of the Website. Month Day (of publication, modification or access). URL.

OR

Organisational author. Year of publication or revision.“Title/description of the page.”  Title/description of the Website. Month Day (of publication, modification or access). URL.

Reference list example

Citations of website content are often only included in the text, however if they form a critical part of your research or are frequently cited, they may be included in your reference list. Check with your lecturer if you are unsure.

"Unfinished Business: Perspectives on Art and Feminism." n.d. Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. Accessed January 31, 2018. https://acca.melbourne/exhibition/unfinished-business-perspectives-on-feminism-and-art/.

OR

ACCA Education. 2018. “Feminisms: Plural and Evolving.” Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. January 02. http://content.acca.melbourne/uploads/2018/02/Feminisms-3.pdf.

Tips for this reference type

  • See Manual 14.104.
  • A web page is any one of the "pages", or sub-documents, that make up a website.
  • In-text citations and reference list entries should correlate so that references can be easily found. For instance, resources listed under the title should have a corresponding in-text citation including the title (see Manual 13.115).
  • Titles of individual pages should be in quotation marks. Titles of whole websites are capitalised in title case and unitalicised (14.103 and 8.160).
  • If a website refers to themselves by their domain name (which is case sensitive), shorten and capitalise it in a logical way (e.g., www.google.com becomes Google).
  • Author-date reference list entries that include a month and day (as for a newspaper article) do not need to repeat the year with the month and day. The year of publication follows the author’s name; the month and day are placed before the URL (14.89).
  • The year of modification would replace the publication date.  Precede the month and day of modification with 'last modified' (see also 13.16).
  • If a date of publication or modification cannot be found, include an access date. Precede the access date with 'accessed' (see 13.15 ). Use n.d. in place of a year of publication in both in-text citations and the reference list (see Manual 14.44 for examples).
  • To avoid conflation with the name of the author, n.d. is always lowercase, and it is preceded by a comma in text citations.
  • Frequently updated resources (such as live news updates) can include a time stamp if one is provided by the resource.

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