Thursday, January 8, 2009

Citations: Electronic sources

An entire web site

Basic format:
Name of Site. Date of Posting/Revision. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sometimes found in copyright statements). Date you accessed the site [electronic address].

For example:

Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. 28 Nov. 2003. Purdue University. 10 November 2008 http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory.

A page on a web site
Wikipedia example

For an individual page on a Web site, list the author, followed by the information covered above for entire Web sites. Make sure the URL points to the exact page you are referring to, or the entry or home page for a collection of pages you're referring to

"Caret." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 28 April 2006. 10 May 2006 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caret&oldid=157510440 .

An Article in a Web Magazine

Basic Format
Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Online Publication. Date of Publication. Date of Access.

Example:

Bernstein, Mark. "10 Tips on Writing The Living Web." A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites. 16 August 2002. 4 May 2006 http://alistapart.com/articles/writeliving.


For more details on citing electronic sources visit the Owl at Purdue web site

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