Referencing with EU Style Using Zotero – EC Library Guide: Referencing a web page
Referencing a web page
A web page
In-text citation
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit (Jaźwińska et al., 2025).
Reference in the bibliography
Jaźwińska, K. and Chandrasekar, A. (2025), ‘AI Search has a Citation Problem’, Columbia Journalism Review website, 6 March, accessed 15 April 2025, https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news.php.
Bibliographic metadata in Zotero
A web page with an internal number
In-text citation
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit (European Commission, 2020).
Reference in the bibliography
European Commission (2020), ‘Statement by the European Commission following the fourth meeting of the EU-UK Joint Committee’, STATEMENT/20/1948, European Commission website, 19 October, accessed 6 May 2024, https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_20_1948.
Bibliographic metadata in Zotero
Web Pages
Zotero 'Item Type' – 'Web Page'.
Creator roles (in order of preference as main creator): ‘Author’, ‘Translator’, and ‘Contributor’.
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Zotero fields |
Bibliographic element |
Status |
observations |
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Author (or other) |
Creator |
Required if… |
… applicable |
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Title |
Title |
Required |
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Website Title |
Container title |
Required if… |
… different from web page title |
| Date |
Date of publication |
Required |
the three date-parts (y-m-d) will be displayed if present |
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Short title |
Title |
Optional |
this field will be used to identify the document in in-text citations if no creators are present |
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URL |
Digital locator |
Required | |
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Accessed |
Date of access |
Required |
the three date-parts (y-m-d) are mandatory |
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Extra |
[can assume several] |
Optional |
can be used to add additional bibliographic elements that are not included by default, by using specific tags (e.g., call-number: for internal reference of the web page) |