General Rules: Citing Information Quoted or Paraphrased from a Website
In-text Citation: Information to Include
In-text citations and signal phrases can be woven into sentences and paragraphs in multiple ways, and what you emphasize depends on what information will be most relevant and/or persuasive to your reader. However, the following information should always be included:
Note: including an attributive tag that mentions your company’s website will help readers distinguish between the company’s website and their social media sites.
Reference Citation: Information to Include
Website Owner. (notation for “no date”). Title of page on website in sentence case and italics. Retrieved date, from URL_but_not_active_hyperlink
Specific Examples: Information Quoted or Paraphrased from a Company’s Website
In-text Citation Options
REI (n.d.) wrote with pride about their lack of shareholders and how “with every purchase you make with REI, you are choosing to steward the outdoors.”
The company website explained that their “purpose is to awaken a lifelong love of the outdoors” (REI, n.d.).
References Page Entry
Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI). (n.d.). Who we are. Retrieved March 23, 2019, from https://www.rei.com/about-rei
In-text Citation Options
The Wall Street Journal (n.d.) claimed in their mission statement that there is complete “separation between News and Opinion.”
The mission statement explained that “society benefits from a common set of verifiable facts and a broad set of voices that reflect our world” (Wall Street Journal, n.d.).
References Page Entry
Wall Street Journal. (n.d.). About us. Retrieved July 17, 2021, from https://www.wsj.com/about-us
Specific Example: Article Posted on a Company or Organization’s Website (Usually a Press Release)
In-text Citation
The University of Wisconsin-Madison's website highlighted recent research that increases donor acceptance of kidney transplants (Lenon, 2023).
Specialists in transplant surgery from UW-Madison and Stanford University have created a new method for increasing donor acceptance of kidney transplants (Lenon, 2023).
References Page Entry
Lenon, J. (2023, September 13). Mixing donor and recipient immune systems creates tolerance of transplanted kidneys. University of Wisconsin-Madison. https://news.wisc.edu/mixing-donor-and-recipient-immune-systems-creates-tolerance-of-transplanted-kidneys/
Specific Example: Overview of Company or Organization’s Website
If you are giving a broad overview of the website and/or professional organization and not citing or summarizing a specific page, cite it only with an end-of-sentence parenthetical.
In-text Citation
Recreational Equipment, Inc.’s (REI) website emphasized their passion for outdoor adventures (https://www.rei.com).
References Page Entry
Because you did not cite any specific information or a specific webpage, this is not cited on the References page.