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Use this formatting if:
- The information lives entirely online, and is not a book, journal, drug monograph or other work with its own pattern. Mostly used for web sites, home pages, information pages in pdf format, video or audio files on the internet and the like.
- NOTE: If the pdf has an ISBN, then the work is technically an eBook, not a web page.
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You will need (minimum information in bold):
- Author(s) (if given)
- Title of page or object (eg, YouTube video) (sentence case - not in italics)
- Name of the website (if different from the page – Title Case, not in italics)
- Published date (at least year, if available) OR
- Updated date (if different to published date – at least year, if available)
- Accessed date
- URL
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Standard Web content pattern:
Author AA, Author BB. Title of page or object. Title of Web site. [Published] Month DD, YYYY. [OR] Updated Month DD, YYYY. Accessed Month DD, YYYY. URL
Examples:
- Pharmacy ownership in Queensland. Queensland Health. Updated September 1, 2021. Accessed January 10, 2022. https://www.health.qld.gov.au/system-governance/licences/pharmacy/pharmacy-ownership/queensland
- Department of Health & Human Services. Anaphylaxis. Better Health Channel. Updated September 25, 2023. Accessed February 9, 2024. https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/ConditionsAndTreatments/anaphylaxis
- Food allergy or intolerance? Allergy and Anapylaxis Australia. Updated January 2017. Accessed August 31, 2020. https://allergyfacts.org.au/allergy-anaphylaxis/food-allergy-or-intolerance
- Zika virus. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. January 26, 2016. Updated November 20, 2019. Accessed September 8, 2020. https://www.cdc.gov/zika/
- University of California Television. Ketogenesis and fasting: Fuel for the brain. YouTube. August 14, 2020. Accessed August 31, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H33vuQLIiXE&feature=emb_logo
- Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). Johns Hopkins Medicine. Date unknown. Accessed September 24, 2023. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/postural-orthostatic-tachycardia-syndrome-pots
Notes:
- For web pages in which there is no listed individual authors for the information on that page, if the corporate authors of the site and the name of the site are identical, you can omit the author and begin with the title of the page (for example, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention is both the name of the site and the name of the organisation responsible for the information on that site).
- If the name of the site and the name of the corporate author is different then list the name of the corporate author in the author position and the name of the site in the Site title position (for example, Better Health Channel is the name of the site, but the Department of Health & Human Services is responsible for the information on that site).
- Do not include the word "Published" for the date of publication, but do include "Updated" if the page has told you it is an updated page. Do not include both a Published and Updated date – if both are available, only use the Updated date.
- The title of the page/object should be in sentence case – which means it would have the same capitalisation pattern you would use in a normal sentence. If the title is a name (of a person, place, organisation or condition) that would be capitalised in a sentence, do not change to lower case.
- The date format used by AMA includes a comma after the day (January 31, 2022) but not after the month, if there is no day (January 2022).
