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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 Works Cited: Electronic Sources (Web Publications) from the Purdue Online Writing Lab

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/

APA Formatting and Style Guide: Reference List: Electronic Sources from the Purdue Online Writing Lab

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/

The Chicago Manual of Style Online: Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide

http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.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

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

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

Learning APA Style

hhttp://www.apastyle.org/learn/

The IPL's Style and Writing Guide Section

http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/ref73.00.00/

Books

• The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, published by the Harvard Law Review Association
• Chicago Manual of Style, published by University of Chicago Press
• MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, by Joseph Gibaldi, published by the Modern Language Association of America
• National Library of Medicine Recommended Formats for Bibliographic Citation, by Karen Patrias, published by the National Library of Medicine
• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, published by the American Psychological Association