Timeline for Embedded hyperlinks in a thesis or research paper
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| May 2, 2023 at 23:15 | comment | added | LittleJohn | @Mew Unfortunately I don't believe it is possible to have a 100 % consistent approach because, as you point out, some websites have the author and year and some do not. The best you can do is pick a style and follow it. I believe the usual solution for author-date is author=name of website and year=year of access. If you reference specific pages on a website you can add the title of the page to the reference e.g. (How Stuff Works, 2023, "How does a carburettor work?") You can define a macro that does this for biblatex, for example. | |
| May 2, 2023 at 13:20 | comment | added | Mew | "I find it odd to only provide the archive.org URL if the website is still active." I concur with this and have been thinking the same thing. If I'm critiquing what's currently being said on a website, then arguably the case is stronger if the reader can verify it for themselves that it is still an issue to this day. "using author-date referencing to reduce the need for the reader to visit the reference list" I am already doing that, cfr. the ACL style. The problem for URLs is that there often is no clear author nor year of publishing, and even if so, that's not what (author, year) is for. | |
| May 2, 2023 at 9:54 | comment | added | Chris H | I use almost the opposite options - lose the ugly border/underline, and (optionally) set the link text colour to dark blue (blue being traditional for links, but dark so it prints clearly B&W). Where possible, I use the DOI link rather than the URL. | |
| May 1, 2023 at 23:06 | history | answered | LittleJohn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |