How to Cite a Website With No Author Using Harvard Style

The Internet is a vast repository for information, and it enables people around the world to access valuable data and resources from their own homes. You can use the Library of Congress, read periodicals from past decades or even view documentaries on your own computer screen. Sometimes these resources can be documented in their original forms--for example, reading a book online. If you glean information from a webpage, then your research will need to indicate what webpage you used. It is very important to reference all sources of information when you are doing research in order to avoid an accusation of plagiarism, which is the practice of directly or indirectly taking credit for another person's work or research. Harvard style is the most commonly used method of citation, and it allows you to place a small reference within the text of your document that directs a reader to more detailed information in the bibliography at the end of the text.

Things You'll Need

  • Date of publication
  • Organization responsible for the webpage
  • Website address
  • Title of the article or piece of information
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Instructions

    • 1

      List the name of the organization responsible for the webpage. You can use an acronym if you wish. For example, if the organization is called People for Sustainable Societies (PFSS), then your citation will start out like this:

      PFSS

    • 2

      Follow the name of the group with the date that the information was published and a comma. This will likely be the copyright date on the information (usually located at the very bottom of the page), the date on a blog post or the last time the site was updated. For example, if the webpage was last updated March 4, 2008, then your citation should, at this point, look like this:

      PFSS 2008,

    • 3

      Add the title of the page where the information is located in quotation marks, followed by the word "[online]." This may be the name of a blog post, the title of the blog itself or the section where the information was found. For example, if the information came from the part of PFSS's website called "Green Cars for a Greener Future," then your website citation should now look like this:

      PFSS 2008, "Green Cars for a Greener Future" [online]

    • 4

      Finish with the web address where you found the information. Indicate that you found the information online with these words, "available at:." If the website that you used is located at http://www.pfss.greencar4future.com, then your finished citation should look like this:

      PFSS 2008, "Green Cars for a Greener Future" [online] available at: http://www.pfss.greencar4future.com

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