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ASA Style: References: Other web content

Web Pages

Last name, First name (or Organization). Year of Publication. "Title of Webpage." Name of Hosting Website (if different from the author), Month Day Year of Publication, if available. http://www.webaddress.com/full/url

Individual Author

If the source is a blog, put (blog) after the name of publication. 

Rizvi, Uzma Z. 2024. "Nothing Easy About This One." anthro{dendum} (blog). January 1, 2024. https://anthrodendum.org/2024/01/01/nothing-easy-about-this-one/.

Waddington, Ray. 2019. "The Gate of Delhi-rium." The Peoples of the World Foundation. https://www.peoplesoftheworld.org/travelStory.jsp?travelStory=delhirium

Corporate Author

If the page is written by a group or organization, use the group or organization name as the author. You can use abbreviations, both here and in the text. 

SAA (Society for American Archaeology). n.d. "Archaeology Law & Ethics." Washington, D.C.: Society for American Archaeology. https://www.saa.org/about-archaeology/archaeology-law-ethics.

Datasets & Data

 Author/Producer. Year. "Dataset Title: Subtitle." Publisher Name. URL

Federal Bureau of Investigation. 2010. "Table 38: Arrests by Age, 2010." Crime in the United States. http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10tbl38.xls.

Missing info?

If you can't find all of the citation details, you can leave out:

  • volume, issue, or page numbers of periodicals
  • publishing or hosting organization

Be aware that a lot of missing information can raise questions about credibility and reliability, especially for web sources. If a source has very little citation information, see if you can find a more reputable source to provide similar information instead. 

Missing author? 

Named authors are frequently missing on web-based content. In that case, you can: 

  • Use the hosting website or organization in the author position. For example, the Society for American Archaeology is used as an author on this page.

Missing date?

  • Missing the month and/or day is OK; use what you can find.
  • If you can't find any date at all, use n.d. in its place, for no date.