Citing web pages and databases

Citing or crediting the ANBG or CANBR web sites or databases

A web site

Citation of a web site in a reference list should include:

author – the person or organisation responsible for the site
site date – the date the site was created or last updated (included in the footer of our pages)
site name (if different from author or sponsor)
name and place of the sponsor of the source (top left corner of our web pages)
date of viewing the source
URL

Examples:

Australian National Botanic Gardens, 2010, Australian National Botanic Gardens Parks Australia, Canberra, viewed 8 September 2010, <http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/>	Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research, 2010, Australian National Herbarium, Australian Government, Canberra, viewed 8 October 2010, <http://www.cpbr.gov.au/cpbr/herbarium/>
Australian National Botanic Gardens, 2010, Growing Native Plants on the web, Australian Government, Canberra, viewed 15 November 2010, <http://www.anbg.gov.au/gnp/>	Australian National Botanic Gardens, 2010, The Fern Pages - a guide to Pteridophytes: the ferns and their allies, Australian Government, Canberra, viewed 22 November 2004, <http://www.anbg.gov.au/fern/>

When web addresses are used within a sentence or line of text, it is important to isolate them from any sentence punctuation.
Use angle brackets ( < > ) to do this unambiguously, ie:

"...the Australian National Botanic Gardens web site <http://www.anbg.gov.au> includes information on..."

A document within a web site

The following is required for the reference list:

author and date,
and/or editor, or compiler
date of document or the date of most recent update
title of document
version number if applicable
name of the sponsor of the source
date of viewing
URL

Examples:

Ollerenshaw, P.E., 1979 Australian National Botanic Gardens, 2003, [Online] Boronia deanei Australian Government, Canberra, viewed 6 June 2010, <http://www.anbg.gov.au/gnp/gnp9/boronia-deanei.html>	Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, 2001, Strategic Plan 2000-2004, Australian Government, Canberra, viewed 15 April 2002, <http://www.cpbr.gov.au/cpbr/strat-plan/index.html>
Lepschi, B.J., Mallinson, D.J. & Cargill, D.C. (eds) (2008). Census of the Vascular Plants, Hornworts, Liverworts and slime moulds of the Australian Capital Territory. Version 3.0 <http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/ACT-census-2012/index.html >
Australian Cultivar Registration Authority, 2001, Anigozanthos 'Early Spring' Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, viewed 6 June 2010, <http://www.anbg.gov.au/acra/descriptions/acc225.html>	Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, 2004, The name Acacia retained for Australian species Australian Government, Canberra, viewed 15 November 2010, <http://www.cpbr.gov.au/cpbr/taxonomy/acacia-conserved-2004.html>

Interactive CD or DVD keys and Lucid online keys

Examples:

Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research, 2010, Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Edition 6 [online version] viewed 10 January 2011 <http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/cd-keys/rfk/index.html>	Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research, 2010, Acanthus ilicifolius Profile Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Edition 6 [online version] viewed 10 January 2011 <http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/cd-keys/rfk/index.html>
Slee, A.V., Brooker, M.I.H., Duffy, S.M. & West, J.G. (2006) “Euclid: eucalypts of Australia.” 3rd ed. (CSIRO: Canberra.)

Databases

The IBIS database is a complex relational database linking the various data associated with living plants, the herbarium collections, photographs, illustrations, and plant names.

Various views of this data are presented on the web, each looking like a discrete database.

This single database spans the activities of the Australian National Botanic Gardens and the Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research, jointly managed by CSIRO and the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. As a jointly managed database it it appropriate to refer to it as 'an Australian Government Initiative' rather than any one Government Department.

In the case of Australial's Virtual Herbarium (AVH) and the Australian Plant Census (APC) the sponsor or source is the Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria.

In a reference list, notes or bibliography, list the:

title of the database view
name of the complete database (ie. IBIS)
vendor
name of the sponsor of the source
date of viewing
URL

Examples:

Australian Plant Name Index, IBIS database, Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra, viewed 20 June 2004, <http://www.cpbr.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni>	The ANBG Living Collection, IBIS database, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Australian Government, Canberra, viewed 28 July 2004, <http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/vic>
What’s Its Name?, IBIS database, Australian National Herbarium, Australian Government, Canberra, viewed 13 February 2003, <http://www.cpbr.gov.au/win/index.html>	Australian Plant Image Index, IBIS database, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Australian Government, Canberra, viewed 3 October 2003, <http://www.anbg.gov.au/photo/index.html>
Australian Plant Census IBIS database, Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research, Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria, viewed [date], <http://www.chah.gov.au/apc/index.html>	ANHSIR: ANH Specimen Information Register, IBIS database, Australian National Herbarium, Australian Government, Canberra, viewed 21 November 2003, <http://www.cpbr.gov.au/cgi-bin/anhsir>
Australia's Virtual Herbarium, [map output], Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria, viewed 11 March 2011, <http://avh.ala.org.au/>

Images of herbarium specimens

For some herbarium specimen database records images of the herbarium sheet are also available for download. As the database contains records with images from two herbaria please note which institution it belongs to by referring to the ‘Herbarium’ field in the data, e.g. ‘CANB’ refers to the Australian National Herbarium and ‘K’ refers to the Kew Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, U.K. To obtain higher quality images and permission to use them for publication contact either the Australian National Herbarium on anhsirquery@anbg.gov.au or the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew on http://apps.kew.org/herbcat/contactUs.do

1. Citation format for a photograph of a herbarium specimen at the Australian National Herbarium (CANB):

Photograph of herbarium sheet CANB ####, Australian National Herbarium, Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research, Canberra , ACT.

2. Citation format for a photograph of a herbarium specimen at the Royal Botanic Gardens (K):

See their conditions of use page at http://apps.kew.org/herbcat/gotoConditions.do

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