Website: how to cite in Vancouver Style?

Geben Sie eine Quelle schnell und korrekt nach Vancouver an

Wählen Sie eine Art der Quelle aus:

Buch Webseite Zeitschriftenartikel Video (online)

Archivdokument Bericht der Organisation Bild Blog-Beitrag Buch Buchteil CD Copyright-Zertifikat Dissertation Enzyklopädie Enzyklopädie-Artikel Fertige Angabe Gesetz / Normativakt Konferenzbericht Patent Podcast Preprint Pressemitteilung Rechtsstreitsdokument Religiöser Text Social-Media-Beitrag Software Standard Video (online) Videospiel Webseite Wörterbuch Wörterbuchartikel Zeitschriftenartikel Zeitungsartikel Zusammenfassung der Dissertation

General rules

Citing Medicine – the manual of Vancouver Style – provides different templates for referencing the homepage and any other page of a website. For the homepage, the following template should be used:

Author(s). Website Title [Internet]. City where the website was created: Publisher; date of the website’s creation [cited date cited]. Available from: URL

For any other webpage, apply the following template:

Website Title [Internet]. City where the website was created: Publisher; date of the website’s creation. Page title; page publication date [cited date cited]. Available from: URL

However, the above requirements may hinder significantly the creation of bibliographic references. Thus, the development of the Internet leads to the fact that the city of the website’s creation and the publisher lose their relevance as reference elements: usually, you cannot determine where the website was created, and the publisher’s name is in most cases the same as the name of the company or is missing as well. Taking into account the above and the recommendations of universities from different countries, the web service Grafiati offers a simplified Vancouver template for individual pages of a website:

Author(s). Website Title [Internet]. Page title; page publication date [cited date cited]. Available from: URL

N.B. Put a full stop after the URL only if the URL ends with a slash (‘/’).

If the page features the date last updated in addition to the publication date, give the former in square brackets before the date cited:

[updated date updated; cited date cited]

Examples in a list of references

In accordance with the requirements of Vancouver Style:

Homepage:

Med Uni Graz [Internet]. Graz (Austria): Med Uni Graz; c2021 [cited 2021 Mar 26]. Available from: https://www.medunigraz.at/en/.

Any other page:

BBC News [Internet]. [London]: BBC, c2021. Is Europe's AstraZeneca jab decision-making flawed?; 2021 Mar 15 [cited 2021 Jun 26]. Available from: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56360646

In accordance with the simplified template offered:

Triggle N. BBC News [Internet]. Is Europe's AstraZeneca jab decision-making flawed?; 2021 Mar 15 [cited 2021 Jun 26]. Available from: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56360646