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Reply Thu 8 Sep, 2005 02:11 pm
I'm not sure if this the appropriate forum for this question, but how do you cite an electronic reference in the text that has no author? For example, I found information about chemotherapy on the National Cancer Institute website and want to cite it in a paper. How would I do that? Thanks so much for any help.
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George
 
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Reply Thu 8 Sep, 2005 03:15 pm
Quote:
ELECTRONIC SOURCES
WWW (World Wide Web) Sites
To cite files from the World Wide Web give the author's name (if known),
the full title of the web page quoted from "in quotation marks,"
the title of the web site's homepage (from the window bar) underlined or
in italics, the full http address, and the date of visit (in parentheses).

American Dental Association. "Fluorides and Fluoridation." Facts About
Fluoride.
Http://www.ada.org/consumer/fluoride/articles/fa01.html. (10
Feb. 1997).


This is from the MLA Style Sheet page of the Community College of
Southern Nevada
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PssnsGrl
 
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Reply Thu 8 Sep, 2005 04:57 pm
Thanks, George!
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yitwail
 
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Reply Thu 8 Sep, 2005 05:02 pm
check with your instructor, PG; if it needs to be in APA format, then it's probably different from MLA. i'd give you an example myself, except it would take too much time away from work right now.
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George
 
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2005 06:30 am
Good point, yitwail!
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yitwail
 
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2005 07:45 am
the APA version of George's example looks like this:

American Dental Association. (n.d.). Fluorides and Fluoridation. Retrieved February 10, 1997, from Http://www.ada.org/consumer/fluoride/articles/fa01.html

notice that you don't give the title of the home page, but you do need a date when the article was created. if you don't have a date, you put in (n.d.), but if you do, it has to be (year, month date), even though the date Retrieved is written month date, year. Confused

also, if this article didn't have an author, the title takes the place of the author, so the citation looks like this (with a date for the article):

Fluorides and Fluoridation. (1997, January 1). Retrieved February 10, 1997, from Http://www.ada.org/consumer/fluoride/articles/fa01.html

incidentally, George, did the WWW even exist in 1997?

(note: just edited to add a period after (n.d.) in the first citation!)
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George
 
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2005 10:41 am
Yup.
It was introduced in 1991, but did not really take off until
Mosaic (the grandaddy of browsers) was developed in 1993.
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yitwail
 
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2005 10:51 am
good grief, i can remember the first time i used Mosaic; couldn't be 12 years ago. Shocked but at least, i still have enough marbles to remember the occasion. Razz
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