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Leeds Harvard: cite a webpage

A source-specific Leeds Harvard example, the details to collect and the checks needed for a webpage.

Choose the actual source form

Use a specific page with identifiable responsibility and a relevant publication or update date. A website-wide copyright footer may describe the site rather than the page you used. Keep the actual URL and any access-date requirement with the record.

Use the named convention

Harvard is a family of author-date conventions. This guide explicitly uses the University of Leeds version and its published source-type guidance. Check that your institution requires this variant before copying the punctuation or element order.

This guide explicitly uses Leeds Harvard.
The access date is not presented as the publication date.

Gather the source details

Identify a named author or responsible organization.
Record the page title and relevant site or publisher role.
Check the date that applies to this page.
Retain the exact source location and the access date required by the chosen convention.

Author: Maya Stone
Title as supplied: A sample web page
Publication year: 2024
Containing work or site: Sample Library
Publisher: Example Institute
Publication place: London
Source location: https://example.org/sample-page
Publication date: 2024-06-01

An independently written example

This is an invented publication used to demonstrate the reference structure. The text below is a plain-text example; use the typography notes above for the required italics or quotation marks.

Stone, M. 2024. A sample web page. [Online]. [Accessed 26 October 2026]. Available from: https://example.org/sample-page

Review the part that is easy to miss

An access date records when you consulted a page; it is not its publication date. A book, report or journal article downloaded from a website usually retains its own source category.

The workbench does not provide a Leeds Harvard template; follow the linked Leeds guidance for this example.

Follow the Leeds guidance directly