The Native Offender and the Law . Printed style manuals offer little guidance, and few even mention the World Wide Web. But that is no excuse for failing to credit your sources. The FTP format could be adapted for use with Web documents, but it is quite awkward. Like most references, a Web document should ideally have a title, an author, and a date, but things are not always so easy.
Most pages have a title of some sort.
In fact, a properly constructed HTML document must have a title. Often the author's name, or at least a link to the author's home page, can be found at the bottom of a Web page. Look at all associated pages before giving up and listing the document with no author. The date for a Web page should include a month and day, since such documents can change frequently. Often a page includes the date when it was last updated, which is equivalent to the publication date.