Vancouver Citation Style  Tags: referencing medndent citation undergrad postgrad  

Details to be recorded when you reference information on a web page:

See below for further information about what to record in each of these elements of your reference.

Author
If there is no personal author use the organisation responsible for the web page. If neither is obvious, and no ownership can be ascertained, you should question whether the page is of sufficient quality to cite in support of your research.

Organisation as Author
An organisation such as a university, society, association, corporation, or governmental body may serve as an author.

• Omit "The" preceding an organisational name.
  For example:
  The Cancer Council (AU) becomes Cancer Council (AU).

• Separate two or more different organisations by a semicolon.
  For example:
  Canadian Association of Orthodontists; Canadian Dental Association.
  American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine; American College of Emergency Physicians, Pediatric Committee.

• If a division or another part of an organisation is included on the homepage, give the parts of the name in descending hierarchical order, separated by commas.
  For example:
  American Medical Association, Committee on Ethics.
  American College of Surgeons, Committee on Trauma, Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Outcomes, Working Group.

• When citing organisations that are national bodies such as government agencies, if a nationality is not part of the name, place the country in parentheses after the name, using the two-letter ISO country code (see Citing Medicine,  Appendix D).
  For example:
  National Academy of Sciences (US).
  Royal Marsden Hospital Bone-Marrow Transplantation Team (GB).

Publisher Place
Place is defined as the city where the homepage is published.

• Follow US and Canadian cities with the two-letter abbreviation for the state or province.
  
  
• When citing lesser known cities in other countries, or when citing cities in different locations that have the same name, include the name of the country, either written out or as the two-letter ISO country code (see Citing Medicine,  Appendix D).
  For example:
  Cambridge (MA) and Cambridge (England)

Publisher
A publisher is defined as the individual or organisation issuing the homepage.

• Record the name of the publisher as it appears on the homepage.

• If no publisher can be found, use [publisher unknown].

• When citing publishers that are national bodies such as government agencies, if a nationality is not part of the name, place the country in parentheses after the name, using the two-letter ISO country code (see Citing Medicine,  Appendix D).

Date of Access

When constructing a reference for a web site always include the date you accessed it; year month day. If the information on the web site changes after this date, you will have advised your reader that what you have cited was accurate on the date you have given.