If you can find the date the resource was created, include that in your reference. However, many web resources will have a date the site or resource was last updated instead - if that is the only date information available, include that in your reference. If you cannot find any form of date, include the accepted abbreviation of [n.d.] to indicate the date is not known.
According to King (2024), the weather is impacted by...
...which is why the weather is not as warm as expected (King 2024).
AUTHOR, Year of publication or last update. Title of page [viewed date]. Available from: URL
If no author is given, use the provider of the website as the author. This may be the name of a University, a company, a newspaper, or just the website name (see the Corporate Author tab for more information on this). If you really cannot identify an author, use 'Anon.' as the author information section.
KING, S., 2024. UK weather: where is summer? [viewed 10 June 2024]. Available from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c044x1xz42go
You may want to include the page number or number range indicating where you found the information you are referring to for some sources. For guidance on how to do this see the ‘Page numbers for in-text references’ section.
Include the details of both authors in the in-text citations and the full reference list.
Only the first author surname is reversed in the full reference list entry.
Vidic and Greene (2024) have referred to the concern...
It is clear that there is a concern around the "extreme information overload" (Vidic and Greene 2024).
AUTHOR SURNAME, Initial. and Initial. AUTHOR SURNAME, Year of publication or last update. Title of page [viewed date]. Available from: URL
The format for adding two authors to a full reference is shown below.
VIDIC, P. and L. GREENE, 2024. [Add full reference details for the source type after the author following the format above]
You may want to include the page number or number range indicating where you found the information you are referring to for some sources. For guidance on how to do this see the ‘Page numbers for in-text references’ section.
Include the details of all three authors in both the in-text citations and the full reference list.
Only the first author surname is reversed in the full reference list entry.
Rosa, Harris and Weyers (2021) have referred to the concern...
It is clear that there is a concern around the "extreme information overload" (Rosa, Harris and Weyers 2021).
AUTHOR SURNAME, Initial., Initial. AUTHOR SURNAME and Initial. AUTHOR SURNAME, Year of publication or last update. Title of page [viewed date]. Available from: URL
The format for adding three authors to a full reference is shown below.
ROSA, L., P. HARRIS and T. WEYERS, 2021. [Add full reference details for the source type after the author following the format above]
You may want to include the page number or number range indicating where you found the information you are referring to for some sources. For guidance on how to do this see the ‘Page numbers for in-text references’ section.
If your source has four or more authors, just include the first author in both the in-text citation and full reference list entry. You will need to add et al. after the first author to indicate there were multiple additional authors.
Svoen et al. (2023) have referred to the concern...
It is clear that there is a concern around the "extreme information overload" (Svoen et al. 2023).
AUTHOR SURNAME, Initial. et al., Year of publication or last update. Title of page [viewed date]. Available from: URL
The format for adding four or more authors to a full reference is shown below.
SVOEN, L. et al., 2023. [Add full reference details for the source type after the author following the format above]
You may want to include the page number or number range indicating where you found the information you are referring to for some sources. For guidance on how to do this see the ‘Page numbers for in-text references’ section.
A source may sometimes have a corporate author rather than an individual or several people named as author.
A corporate author is an organisation or company, for example, that created the information source.
Add a corporate author by including the full name both in your in-text citation and in your full reference list.
…aims to provide a top-class university education for all those qualified and able to benefit (Southampton Solent University 2015).
CORPORATE AUTHOR, Year of publication or last update. Title of page [viewed date]. Available from: URL
The format for adding a corporate author to a full reference is shown below.
SOUTHAMPTON SOLENT UNIVERSITY, 2015. [Add full reference details for the source type after the author following the format above]
You may want to include the page number or number range indicating where you found the information you are referring to for some sources. For guidance on how to do this see the ‘Page numbers for in-text references’ section.