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:
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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
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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."
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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"
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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