Citing Electronic Information

Many people want to know how to cite information that they find on the Internet in school papers, theses, reports, etc. There is no definitive answer, but many people have made suggestions. Here are some places to go for recommended electronic information citation guides.

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On the Web

MLA Style: Documenting Sources from the World Wide Web by the Modern Language Association of America

http://www.mla.org/publications/style/style_faq/style_faq4/

Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association by the APA

http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html

Online! Citation Styles by A. Harnack and E. Kleppinger

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html

Citing Electronic Information in History Papers by Maurice Crouse

http://history.memphis.edu/mcrouse/elcite.html

Cómo citar recursos electrónicos by Assumpció Estivill and Cristóbal Urbano

http://www.ub.es/biblio/citae-e.htm

Citation of Legal and Non-legal Electronic Database Information by Candace Elliott Person

http://www.michbar.org/publications/citation.cfm

Yahoo Category: Internet Citation

http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Linguistics_and_Human_Languages/Languages/
Specific_Languages/English/Grammar__Usage__and_Style/Citation/Internet_Citation/

Books

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th ed. (2001). Washington, DC : American Psychological Association

The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, 16th ed. (1996). Cambridge : Harvard Law Review Association

Chicago Manual of Style 14th ed. (1993). Chicago : University of Chicago Press (has a small section on citing electronic resources)

MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, 2nd ed. (1998). By Joseph Gibaldi. New York : Modern Language Association of America (includes updated guidelines on citing electronic works).

Patrias, Karen. National Library of Medicine Recommended Formats for Bibliographic Citation. Bethesda: National Library of Medicine, 1991.