Subject guides: CDU Harvard Referencing: Web sources &amp; online documents

Citation Elements

General web source (see examples for more details)

Author(s) Year, Title of page or document, Publisher, URL

Important

Provide as specific a date as is available on webpage. This could be just the year, the year and month or the year, month, date
Use the publication date, update date but NOT review date or copyright date
Use this format for news websites, e.g. ABC News. Use newspaper format for newspapers

Reference Examples

Web page

Organisation author - (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission 2024)

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission 2024, Immunity and cooperation policy for cartel conduct, Australian Government, https://www.accc.gov.au/system/files/immunity-cooperation-policy-cartel-conduct.pdf

Personal author - …this agreement (Yates 2009)

Yates, J 2009, Tax expenditures and housing, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, http://www.ahuri.edu.au/publications/download/ahuri_judith_yates_research_paper

No date - (Investopedia n.d.)

Investopedia n.d., Economy, Dotdash, https://www.investopedia.com/economy-4689801

Endnote Reference Type = Web Page

Document / Report from a website

(Mendler 2020, p. 3)

Mendler, C 2020, Selling 5G: The channel paradox, Omdia, http://tinyurl.com/bdt3h6es

(Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 2023)

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 2023, Annual Report 2022-23, https://www.csiro.au/en/about/corporate-governance/annual-reports

Endnote Reference Type = Web Page

Government document / Report

(Australian Law Reform Commission [ALRC] 2023)

Australian Law Reform Commission 2023, Financial services legislation: Interim report c, Australian Government, https://www.alrc.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ALRC-FSL-Interim-Report-C-140.pdf

(Department of Immigration and Border Protection [DIBP] 2015)

Department of Immigration and Border Protection 2015, Annual report 2014-15, Australian Government, http://www.border.gov.au/ReportsandPublications/Documents/annual-reports/DIBP-Annual-Report-2014-15.pdf

Note: When numerous layers of government agencies are listed as the author of a work, use the most specific agency as the author in the reference.

Endnote Reference Type = Web Page

Document from Learnline

(Toasters 2023)

Toasters, T 2023, Balance sheets, lecture notes, Charles Darwin University.

Milkwakea et al. (2023) state…

Milkwakea, W, Kayrent, AI & Lueirn, B 2023, Elasticity and its application, PowerPoint slides, Charles Darwin University.

Endnote Reference Type = Online Multimedia

News item online

(Pitt 2019)

Pitt, H 2019, Aboriginal health issues more than just skin deep, The Sydney Morning Herald, https://www.smh.com.au/national/dermatologist-20190523-p51qft.html

Endnote Reference Type = Web Page

Standards

… children’s clothing (Standards Australia 2007)

Standards Australia 2007, Size coding scheme for infants’ and children’s clothing-underwear and outwear (AS 1182-1997), Standards Australia.

Endnote Reference Type = Web Page

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

… (Australian Bureau of Statistics [ABS] 2024)

Australian Bureau of Statistics 2024, Consumer price index, Australia, Dec 2024, Australian Government, https://tinyurl.com/58bxdarw

Endnote Reference Type = Web Page

Social media post

Australian Nursing & Midwifery Journal (2024)

Gillard, J 2011, Facebook update, 11 November, Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/juliagillard/posts/263639040354656

Endnote Reference Type = Social Media

Blog post

(Sammartino 2020)

Sammartino, S 2020, Three skills your future depends on, blog post, https://stevesammartino.com/2020/10/09/three-skills-future-depends/

Endnote Reference Type = Web Page

Dataset

… (Department of the Environment [DoE] 2015)

Department of the Environment 2015, Threatened species state lists: 24 Nov 2015, dataset, Australian Government, http://data.gov.au/dataset/ae652011-f39e-4c6c-91b8-1dc2d2dfee8f/resource/ab6c9078-ac64-41e0-9987-3e38da53d277/download/

Layout: Author Year, Title, Version (optional), Data Type (optional), Publisher, URL (if applicable)

Endnote Reference Type = Dataset

Open Education Resource (OER)

(Jayawickrama et al. 2019)

Note: Cite and reference according to the resource type, i.e. book, image.

Jayawickrama, T, Jayasinghe, R, Kahandawa, R, Rameezdeen, R, Leelarathne, D, & Withana Gamage, I 2023 Building cost planning: Best practices and insight, OER Commons, Retrieved February 3, 2025 from https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/building-cost-planning/, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Note: Include the license information at the end of the reference,

Endnote Reference Type = Web Page