Citing a Website with No Author: How to Do Intext Citation

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I need to do an intext citation for an internet site, but there is no author mentioned for this specific article, how do i cite this? :smile:
 
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Since I don't have many ocassions to cite internet sites as references, I'm not sure if there is a more standard convention, but if nobody else comes up with any better ideas, I'd say just include the URL.
 


When citing a website with no author, the general rule is to use the title of the webpage or article in place of the author's name. In-text citations should include the first few words of the title in quotation marks, followed by the year of publication and the page number (if available) in parentheses. For example: ("Title of Webpage or Article", Year, p. #). If there is no page number, you can use the paragraph number instead. If no date is provided, use "n.d." in place of the year. It is also important to include the full URL in the reference list.