Citing Electronic Sources

Click here for a basic template for electronic citations

Citing materials from electronic sources should be no different than from traditional printed sources.
Two related qualities are essential:

Usefulness:

Any bibliographic reference should provide the information your reader needs to return to the exact source that you used in your research.
 

Uniformity:

In order to reduce ambiguity and the possibility of error, you should follow a standard format in all your citations.  Some useful models can be found at these websites:

  Lauinger's list of Style Manuals

provides hot-links to several sources of guides and templates for citation templates; see also the Lauinger Newsletter for May 1997

   "Electronic References & Scholarly Citations of Internet Resources."

compilation by Anita Greenhill, Griffith University, Australia

  MLA Style Guides

this link also gets you a wide range of MLA guidelines

"Citing Electronic Information in History Papers"

specifically designed for historians; provides not only templates for citations from a wide variety of sources, but also explores some of the methodological problems involved in using electronic resources