Plug in any information that you may be able to gain from the website. If your citation refers to a general article or blog post you have seen on a website, fill in the following format: Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of article. Title of Online Periodical (place in Italics), volume number (issue number if available). Retrieved from http://www.someaddress.com/full/url/. An example of a full citation is: Johnson, M. (2010). 15 Ideas to Make Working From Home a Snap. Working From Home, Volume 17. Retrieved from http://www.workfromhome.com/articles/homework.
Choose the correct way to set up the citation for an article from an online newspaper. This is similar to how you would cite the print version with the addition of the web address. The format is: Author, A. A. (Year, Month, Day). Title of article. Title of Newspaper(place in Italics). Retrieved from http://www.someaddress.com/full/url/. An example is: Trashman, R. (2011, May 6). Psychiatry Discipline Fights for New Rules. The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved from http://www.latimes.com
Read an e-book online and then cite this in your work. If the book is only available online, you would set the citation as: Author, A.A (Year, Month Day). Title of E-Book (place in italics). Retrieved from http://www.someaddress.com/full/url/. If the e-book is also available in print version, use the standard book citation but add the website of the publisher's site for the book as shown here: Author, A.A. (Year, Month Day) Title. Available from from http://www.anybooks.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-9780931686108-0.
Research facts through an online encyclopedia, but be aware that you will need to cite those resources. To cite an online encyclopedia use the format: Topic or Title. (Year, Month Day). In Any Encyclopedia online (place in italics). Retrieved from http:///www.anyencyclopedia.com/topicpage. An example is: Reptiles. (2005, April 12). In Encyclopaedia Britannica online. Retrieved from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/reptiles/72463