Citing Web Pages Essentials

The video tutorial explains how to create a citation for a basic web page. It covers the steps to format the author, title, publisher, and URL, and how to handle missing information. The tutorial also provides guidance on hyperlink formatting and adding the access date to complete the citation.

What is the first step in creating a citation for a web page?

• Find the publisher of the website

• Check the update date

• Write the title of the web page

• Include the author's last name

If the author's name is not available, what should you do next?

• Use the website's name as the author

• Leave the author section blank

• Use 'Anonymous' as the author

• Skip to the title and subtitle

What should you do if the author's last name is not listed?

• Use the first name only

• Leave the author section blank

• Skip to the title and subtitle

• Use 'Unknown' as the author

How should the title of the web page be formatted in a citation?

• In italics

• In bold

• In quotation marks

• Underlined

Where should the period be placed when formatting the title?

• Outside the quotation marks

• Inside the quotation marks

• Before the quotation marks

• No period is needed

How should the title of the web page be followed in a citation?

• With a semicolon

• With a colon

• With a period

• With a comma

What is the correct format for the title and subtitle of a web page?

• Underlined and followed by a semicolon

• Bold and followed by a period

• Italicized and followed by a comma

• In quotation marks and followed by a period

When can the publisher or sponsor of a website be omitted in a citation?

• When it's a well-known organization

• When it's the same as the title of the site

• When the website is a .gov domain

• When the website is a .edu domain

What should you do if the publisher is the same as the title of the site?

• Omit it

• Include it anyway

• Use a different publisher

• Use the website's domain

What should you do if there is no update date available for the web page?

• Estimate the update date

• Use the publication date

• Skip the update date

• Use the current date