There may be occasions when you wish to quote from a source which does not contain page numbers. These would include a web page or an eBook with no pagination (for example, the eBooks within our Pharmacy Knowledge databases will not have page numbers) or an electronic journal article with no pagination (click here for an example from the journal PLoS ONE). On these occasions, use other information to help identify where the quote is located in the source - a paragraph number, section heading etc. For example, for the PLoS ONE journal article:
Reference List
Example of the full reference at the end of your assignment:
Keating, C.T., Hickman, L., Geelhand, P., Takahashi, T., Leung, J., Monk, R., Schuster, B., Rybicki, A., Girolamo, T.M., Clin, E., Papastamou, F., Belenger, M., Inge-Marie Eigsti, I.- M., Cook, J. L., Kosaka, H., Osu, R., Okamoto, Y. and Sowden-Carvalho, S. Global perspectives on autism acceptance, camouflaging behaviours and mental health in autism spectrum disorder: a registered report protocol. PLoS ONE 16(12): e0261774. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261774
In-text citation
Example 1 - where the author's name does not occur naturally in the sentence:
There are differences in levels of autism acceptance, camouflaging, and mental health difficulties across country groups (Keating et al. 2024, Discussion section, para. 5).
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