ELECTRONIC SOURCES

    As a general rule you cite the information needed for the print source and add the information needed for the electronic source.  If no print source is given cite the information needed for the electronic source.  If you cannot find some of the information needed cite what is available.  Information needed for CD-ROM's may be found  in manuals, on the CD disk or on the main screen  and for the Internet may be found in the URL, on the main page of the site, embedded in the text, etc.

INTERNET

 NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES FROM AN ONLINE     DATABASE                          
(Sirs Discoverer, Infotrac, Ebsco, etc.)

INFORMATION NEEDED:
    1. Name of the author (if given)
    2. Title of the article (in quotation marks)
    3. Title of the magazine or newspaper (underlined)
    4. Volume number, issue number (if there is one)
    5. Year or date of publication (in parentheses)
    6.  Number of pages 
    7.  Name of online database (underlined)
    8. Date of access
    9. Electronic address / URL of the source in angle brackets < >

 "Odysseus and the Long Voyage Home."  Weekly Reader  (16 May 1993):  4pp.  Sirs Discoverer.  30 Nov.
                  1999.  <http://discoverer.sirs.com>

 

ENCYCLOPEDIAS FROM AN ONLINE DATABASE
(World Book, Grolier, New Book of Knowledge, etc.)

INFORMATION NEEDED:
    1. Name of the author (if any)
    2. Title of the article (in quotation marks)
    3. Name of the repository, online database i.e., World Book Online, Gale Net, etc. (underlined)
    4. Date of access
    5. Electronic address / URL of the source in angle brackets < > 

Brinkman, John A.  "Sumer."   World Book Online.  30 Nov.  1999.  <http:// www.worldbookonline.com>

"Elizabeth Cady Stanton."  Discovering Biography.  29 Nov. 1999.  <http://galenet.gale.com>

 

OTHER PRINT SOURCES ON INTERNET
(Books, Documents, Reports, etc.)

*Cite the information needed for the print source and add the information needed for the electronic source.

INFORMATION NEEDED:
    1. Name of the author (if any)
    2. Title of the text (underlined)
    3. Publication information for the printed source
    4.Name of the repository (any institution which is sponsoring or responsible for the web site)
    5. Date of Access
    6 Electronic address / URL  of the source in angle brackets <>

Crane, Stephen.  Red Badge of Courage.  New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1985.  American Studies at the
        University of Virginia.  9 May 2001.  <http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertext.html>

 

WORLD WIDE WEB SITES AVAILABLE VIA
INTERNET EXPLORER, NETSCAPE, ETC.

(Information published only on the Internet)       

INFORMATION NEEDED: (Look for this information anywhere you can find it: on the main page, in the URL, at the bottom of the page, etc.)
   1. Name of the author (if there is one)
   2. Name of the topic (in quotes) if the page is divided into topics, photos, etc.
   3. Name of the page (underlined)
   4. Date of the information / last updated (if available)
   5. Name of the repository or home page (any institution which is sponsoring or responsible for the
                             web site)
   6. Date of access
   7. Electronic address / URL in angle brackets < >

Arnett, Bill.  "Sun."   The Nine Planets; a Multimedia Tour of the Solar System.  18 Mar. 1999.  30 Nov. 1999.  <http://slds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets>

Col, Jeananda.  "Fossils: Finding Fossils."   Zoom Dinosaurs.    c1996-2000.  Enchanted Learning.  18 Sept.
        2000.  <http://EnchantedLearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/index.html>

Durer, Mike.  "Snoopy, Pets.com Puppets."  Thanksgiving.   AP Photo Archive.  30 Nov. 1999. 
       <http://accuweather.ap.org>

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