Citing the ANBG or CPBR web sites or databases
A web site
Citation of a web site in a reference list should include:
- author – the person or organisation responsible for the site
- site date – the date the site was created or last updated (included
in the footer of our pages)
- site name (if different from author or sponsor)
- name and place of the sponsor of the source (top left corner of our web
pages)
- date of viewing the source
- URL
Examples:
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Australian National Botanic Gardens, 2004,
Australian National Botanic Gardens
Department of the Envrionment and Heritage, Canberra,
viewed 8 September 2004,
<http://www.anbg.gov.au/anbg/>
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Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, 2003,
Australian National Herbarium,
Australian Government, Canberra,
viewed 8 January 2004,
<http://www.cpbr.gov.au/cpbr/herbarium/>
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Australian National Botanic Gardens, 2003,
Growing Native Plants on the web,
Department of the Envrionment and Heritage, Canberra,
viewed 15 November 2003,
<http://www.anbg.gov.au/gnp/>
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Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, 2004,
The Fern Pages - a guide to Pteridophytes: the ferns and their allies,
Australian Government, Canberra,
viewed 22 November 2004,
<http://www.cpbr.gov.au/fern/>
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When web addresses are used within a sentence or line of text, it is important
to isolate them from any sentence punctuation.
Use angle brackets ( < > ) to do this unambiguously, ie:
"...the Australian National Botanic Gardens web site <http://www.anbg.gov.au>
includes information on..."
A document within a web site
The following is required for the reference list:
- author and date,
- and/or editor, or compiler
- date of document or the date of most recent update
- title of document
- version number if applicable
- name of the sponsor of the source
- date of viewing
- URL
Examples:
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Ollerenshaw, P.E., 1979
Australian National Botanic Gardens, 2003, [Online]
Boronia deanei
Department of the Envrionment and Heritage, Canberra,
viewed 6 June 2004,
<http://www.anbg.gov.au/gnp/gnp9/boronia-deanei.html>
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Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, 2001,
Strategic Plan 2000-2004,
Australian Government, Canberra,
viewed 15 April 2002,
<http://www.cpbr.gov.au/cpbr/strat-plan/index.html>
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Australian Cultivar Registration Authority, 2001,
Anigozanthos 'Early Spring'
Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra,
viewed 6 June 2004,
<http://www.anbg.gov.au/acra/descriptions/acc225.html>
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Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, 2004,
The name Acacia retained for Australian species
Australian Government, Canberra,
viewed 15 November 2004,
<http://www.cpbr.gov.au/cpbr/taxonomy/acacia-conserved-2004.html>
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Databases
The IBIS database is a complex relational database linking the various data
associated with living plants, the herbarium collections, photographs, illustrations,
and plant names.
Various views of this data are presented on the web, each looking like a discrete
database.
This single database spans the activities of the Australian National Botanic
Gardens and the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, jointly managed by CSIRO
and the Department of the Environment and Heritage. As a jointly managed database
it it appropriate to refer to it as 'an Australian Government Initiative' rather
than any one Government Department.
In the case of Australial's Virtual Herbarium (AVH) and the Australian Plant Census (APC) the sponsor or source is
the Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria.
In a reference list, notes or bibliography, list the:
- title of the database view
- name of the complete database (ie. IBIS)
- vendor
- name of the sponsor of the source
- date of viewing
- URL
Examples:
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Australian Plant Name Index,
IBIS database,
Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research,
Australian Government, Canberra,
viewed 20 June 2004,
<http://www.cpbr.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni>
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The ANBG Living Collection,
IBIS database,
Australian National Botanic Gardens,
Australian Government, Canberra,
viewed 28 July 2004,
<http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/vic>
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What’s Its Name?,
IBIS database,
Australian National Herbarium,
Australian Government, Canberra,
viewed 13 February 2003,
<http://www.cpbr.gov.au/win/index.html>
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Australian Plant Image Index,
IBIS database,
Australian National Botanic Gardens,
Australian Government, Canberra,
viewed 3 October 2003,
<http://www.anbg.gov.au/photo/index.html>
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Australian Plant Census
IBIS database,
Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research,
Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria,
viewed [date],
<http://www.chah.gov.au/apc/index.html>
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ANHSIR: ANH Specimen Information Register,
IBIS database,
Australian National Herbarium,
Australian Government, Canberra,
viewed 21 November 2003,
<http://www.cpbr.gov.au/cgi-bin/anhsir> |
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Australia's Virtual Herbarium, [map output],
via Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research,
Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria,
viewed 11 March 2004,
<http://www.cpbr.gov.au/cgi-bin/avh.cgi>
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Updated
6 December, 2007
, webmaster, ANBG (anbg-info@anbg.gov.au)
