 Finding reference information from a web page. To reference a web page, you need to find information about the title, author and date of publication in the same way you would need to find this information for a book or journal or article. It can be difficult to reference a web page when it doesn't have a clear author or date. So let's look at what you can do to overcome this. First, let's begin with an example that does have information that is easy to find. This web page is Inscribe, a journal of undergraduate student writing hosted by the English Language Centre. Let's look at a particular article in Inscribe. It's easy to see that the title is Time Travelling to the Past and you can easily see the author is Chiwai Law. Try and find a publication date, somewhere near the title. In this case, we have the date when the article was posted, 2013. If there is nothing there, then read the URL of the browser, which may have numbers that look like dates. In this case, there is no date in the URL. Some websites put publication information after the article. If nothing is there, then look for copyright information. In this case, there is nothing in the copyright section to indicate a date. If you're still having no luck, then right-click on the web page in your browser and view the source code. Look towards the top of the code between the head and head tags. Sometimes meta tags contain date information. Finally, you can click and view the web page information and this will tell you the last modified date. So what do you do when there is no obvious author? In this example, you are focused on the reading strategies part of this web page. However, there is no obvious author. If the web page you are looking at has no author, you can use the title of what you're looking at as a replacement for the author. So in this case, the words reading strategies will be used in place of the author's name. Finally, if your web page has no obvious title, author or date of publication and you can't find information about the organization that created it, then you may want to think carefully about using it in an academic essay. Academic credibility is important and you need to be able to verify the source.