Reference a Website vs a Journal Article: Key Differences

A website and a journal article get referenced differently, and it's easy to muddle the elements. This formats both your sources correctly and lays out exactly which fields change, access dates, volume numbers and the rest. For students who treat every source the same way and lose marks on the ones that need different handling.

Act as an academic librarian. I need to understand the structural differences between referencing a website and a journal article.

Website details:
Author or organisation: {WEBSITE_AUTHOR}
Page title: {PAGE_TITLE}
Website name: {WEBSITE_NAME}
URL: {URL}
Date accessed or last updated: {ACCESS_DATE}

Journal article details:
Author: {ARTICLE_AUTHOR}
Article title: {ARTICLE_TITLE}
Journal name: {JOURNAL_NAME}
Volume and issue: {VOLUME_ISSUE}
DOI: {DOI}

Using {REFERENCING_STYLE} format, show the complete reference entry for each. Then explain:
- Why URLs require access dates in some styles but not others
- How to handle a webpage with no named author
- When a DOI is preferred over a URL
- The credibility considerations that differ between these source types