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Citation rules/Internet and media/18.2 The Internet

Abbreviate the site's name

Warning²Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions

A website's main page title is abbreviated by tables T6, T10 and T13, the same way any institutional or periodical name is — “Valley Educ. Fund”, not “Valley Education Fund”.¹

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1R. 18.2.2(b)(i) Main page titles. Tables: T6 Case Names and Institutional Authors in Citations; T10 Geographical Terms; T13 Institutional Names in Periodical Titles.
2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify it.

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Abbreviate the author's name
Abbreviate the site's name
Add a comma before the URL
Add a parenthetical explaining the link
Add parentheses around the “last visited” date
Add the archive link
Add the site's name before the address
Add the time zone after the time
Lowercase the short word in the title

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