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#325024 28-Jun-2026 18:35
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I've been asked to proofread some material.

 

One of the pages is a list of websites that have been used as sources.

 

But the format used is inconsistent.

 

For instance:

 

Geekzone   www.geekzone.co.nz

 

Geekzone   http://geekzone.co.nz

 

Geekzone   geekzone.co.nz

 

and even...

 

Geekzone   http://www.geekzone.co.nz

 

 

 

Is there an industry preferred format for listing URLs?

 

Or should I just pick one and make it the standard for the page?




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  #3506883 28-Jun-2026 18:45
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NZ based APA referencing guide with NZ website examples.

 

https://aut.ac.nz.libguides.com/APA7th/websites




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  #3506884 28-Jun-2026 18:49
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Technically each one of those examples can potentially go to a different service. In practice for a well maintained website like geekzone all of those map to https://www.geekzone.co.nz which happens to be the one specific item not mentioned at all ; ).

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  #3506885 28-Jun-2026 18:56
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Long story short the reference link in the paper should be the verbatim link the writer accessed the material on. Attempting to 'standardise' the link could potentially result in failure to retrieve by the browser.



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  #3506889 28-Jun-2026 19:38
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As above... http and https are actually different endpoints and they could even have different websites on each. Same for www and non-www. 

 

So, as mentioned, link to exact URL where the information was found.




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  #3506891 28-Jun-2026 19:45
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freitasm:

 

As above... http and https are actually different endpoints and they could even have different websites on each. Same for www and non-www. 

 

So, as mentioned, link to exact URL where the information was found.

 

 

Right, so I also need to check that each URL that has been cited actually retrieves the expected content.

 

Thanks everyone, I know what I need to do now.




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  #3506946 28-Jun-2026 21:42
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kiwifidget:

 

Thanks everyone, I know what I need to do now.

 

 

You may want to take the step of making sure that each cited URL archived by the wayback machine, then link to the wayback scrape for the date the source was visited by the author. That avoids future dead links.




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