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Web page

Bibliography

Author Last name, First name, Title of Webpage (Place: Publisher/Organization, Year) <https://xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [accessed DD Month Year] 

Feagins, Lucy, The Inimitable Mirka Mora  (The Design Files, 2018) <https://thedesignfiles.net/2018/08/interview-mirka-mora/> [accessed 25 August 2020]

In-text

...as mentioned by Feagins.1

...as proposed.2

First footnote

1 Lucy Feagins, The Inimitable Mirka Mora (The Design Files, 2018) <https://thedesignfiles.net/2018/08/interview-mirka-mora/> [accessed 25 August 2020] para. 5.

Subsequent footnotes

2 Feagins, para. 4.

Notes

  • If no individual author is identified, use the wider organization or website as the corporate author in the bibliography. 
  • Words in the titles and subtitles are capitalized except articles and prepositions
  • The author is inverted for the bibliography but not for the footnotes
  • The second line of the bibliography entry is indented
  • The first footnote includes all of the publication information
  • Where no year can be found use [n.d.]
  • For multiple authors check the author layout table for footnote and bibliography format

Government or Organisation reports

Bibliography

Organisation Name, Title of Webpage (Place: Publisher/Organization, Year) <https://xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [accessed DD Month Year] 

U.S. Government Accountability Office, Cultural Property: Protection of Iraqi and Syrian Antiquities (Washington, D.C: GAO, 2016) <https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-16-673.pdf> [accessed 5 May 2021]

In-text 

...as proposed.1

...from the U.S. Government.1

First footnote

1 U.S. Government Accountability Office, Cultural Property: Protection of Iraqi and Syrian Antiquities (Washington, D.C: GAO, 2016) <https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-16-673.pdf> [accessed 5 May 2021] p. 4.

Subsequent footnotes

4 U.S. Government Accountability Office, p. 28.

Notes

  • Use the government department responsible for the publication or report as the author.
  • Where no year can be found use [n.d.]
  • The second line of the bibliography entry is indented
  • The first footnote includes all of the publication information
  • Subsequent footnotes of the same source include only the organisation's name, and the page number(s) or paragraph numbers
  • For multiple authors check the author layout table for in-text and reference list format