Website quote: how to do it?

There is a lot of interesting content on the internet, that's why more and more they have conquered their space and can be cited in academic works.

Of course, you need to be judicious and evaluate whether the content found on a website is good enough to reinforce the credibility of your project and, thus, deserve to be mentioned on it.

So, if you found something interesting, you don't need to cite it, but remember: quoting and not identifying the author, site name, access date, among other things, is plagiarism!

What is website citation?

Website quote is the transcription of something consulted on a website. When doing this, we need to bracket the name of author/publishing site and year.

Website citation example

"In addition to her intense career as a dancer, actress and singer, Josephine Baker has adopted twelve orphan children from different countries and religions, to show that peaceful coexistence among human beings was possible." (TODA MATERIA, 2019)

Image of the Toda Matéria website page, from where the quote was taken

After including a citation in your work, immediately fill in the reference, which is the mandatory part of the work and contains all the indications a person needs to find the text you quoted — remembering that citation and reference are things many different.

Website citation x Website reference

THE quote it is what you transcribe in your work, with a simple indication in parentheses of where it was taken from.

THE reference, in turn, is the part of the job where you list everything you quoted, with details that allow people to find the mentioned content if they want to search for it.

For the example given above — "In addition to her intense career as a dancer, actress and singer, Josephine Baker has adopted twelve orphaned children from different countries and religions, to show that peaceful coexistence between human beings was possible." (TODA MATERIA, 2019) - the reference should contain the author's name, title of the article, website name, year, link and date of access.

Example:

HELF, Juliana. Inspiring black women. All Matter, 2019. Available in: https://www.todamateria.com.br/mulheres-negras-inspiradoras/. Accessed on: 10 Oct. 2019.

Image of the Toda Matéria website page where the text used in the citation appears

We are sure that these texts can help you even more:

• Direct and indirect citation
• Apud or citation citation
• ABNT References