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10. No date

If no date is specified at all, remember the following:

If there is no date, write (n.d.) in the 'year' (2) field. Technically speaking, you ought to write (n.d.) again in the 'date of publication/last update or revision' (8) field, but this is rather pedantic - leave it blank, and put in the [Last accessed date] (9) alone.
If there is no date on the page, but other data can give you a rough idea of the date (i.e. a page about an upcoming performance is likely to have been created in the same year) use circa, abbreviated to ca. as in the example of the Arts Educational School page.
Different pages on a site get updated at different times. Never use a date from one page as the date for another -
If you use Netscape Navigator, clicking on 'View' and 'Page Info' may give you the information you want. Internet Explorer has a 'page created' and 'page modified' field in the properties menu when you right-click on a page, but it rarely works.

You may have been surprised to see that an Internet site can have a 'place of publication' and 'publisher'. This is not always the case. Sometimes, web pages will have No Publisher.

Updated Sunday November 11, 2001 4:29 PM

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Introduction Principles Structure Additional information required Q: Too much information? A: Identify the nature of the document Q: Too little information? a)No author b) No title c) No date d) No publisher Links to other citation guides FAQs		10. No date

		If no date is specified at all, remember the following: If there is no date, write (n.d.) in the 'year' (2) field. Technically speaking, you ought to write (n.d.) again in the 'date of publication/last update or revision' (8) field, but this is rather pedantic - leave it blank, and put in the [Last accessed date] (9) alone. If there is no date on the page, but other data can give you a rough idea of the date (i.e. a page about an upcoming performance is likely to have been created in the same year) use circa, abbreviated to ca. as in the example of the Arts Educational School page. Different pages on a site get updated at different times. Never use a date from one page as the date for another - If you use Netscape Navigator, clicking on 'View' and 'Page Info' may give you the information you want. Internet Explorer has a 'page created' and 'page modified' field in the properties menu when you right-click on a page, but it rarely works. You may have been surprised to see that an Internet site can have a 'place of publication' and 'publisher'. This is not always the case. Sometimes, web pages will have No Publisher.
	Updated Sunday November 11, 2001 4:29 PM © Jonathan Still 2001 You may quote from these pages, but if your selection includes a reference I have made to someone else's work, please make sure that the attribution is clear. By not doing so, you may implicate me in plagiarism.