Many documents found online will be best classified as specific source types, e.g. an online newspaper article should be referenced as per the 'newspaper articles' section above.
Websites
BMJ Best Practice example:
UpToDate example:
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Use the EndNote fields corresponding to the reference elements. |
Author | Author | |
| Title | Title | ||
| Publisher | Name of website | ||
| Date cited | Date of publication – Month DD | ||
| Year cited | Year of publication – YYYY | ||
| Last update date | Updated date – Month DD, YYYY | ||
| Access date | Accessed date – Month DD | ||
| Access year | Accessed year – YYYY | ||
| URL | URL |
Social media
Social media is constantly evolving and the details available for referencing can differ from traditionally published sources of information. Some examples for referencing social media posts are given below.
YouTube example:
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Use the EndNote fields corresponding to the reference elements. |
Username | Author | |
| Post full text | Title or text of post | ||
| Post date | Year of publication - Month DD, YYYY | ||
| Access date | Accessed date - Month DD, YYYY | ||
| URL | URL |
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Use the EndNote fields corresponding to the reference elements. |
Author | Author | |
| Title of entry | Title of post | ||
| Title of weblog | Name of blog | ||
| Date | Dater of publication – Month DD | ||
| Year | Year of publication – YYYY | ||
| Description | Blog | ||
| Accessed date | Accessed date – Month DD, YYYY | ||
| URL | URL |
Software, including AI tools
The AMA (American Medical Association, authors of the AMA Manual of Style) does not allow AI software such as ChatGPT to be listed as authors on papers, stating that "nonhuman artificial intelligence, language models, machine learning, or similar technologies do not qualify for authorship."1
Without specific guidelines from the AMA, details for citing AI tools in Bond assignments as given below. Students must comply with University and assignment guidelines on using AI in assignments.
In the in-text citation, it may be useful to state how the AI tool was used, such as:
ChatGPT1 was used to reformat the information in Table 1.
1. Software Name. Version no. Publisher; Year. Accessed Date. URL
ChatGPT
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