Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Web Sources

Following this list are sample entries for some common kinds of Web sources.

  1. Name of the author, editor, compiler, or translator of the source (if given), reversed for alphabetizing and, if appropriate, followed by an abbreviation, such as ed.
  2. Title of an article, poem, short story, or similar short work in the Internet site (enclosed in quotation marks). Or title of a posting to a discussion list or forum (taken from the subject line and put in quotation marks), followed by the description Online posting
  3. Title of a book (underlined)
  4. Name of the editor, compiler, or translator of the text (if relevant and if not cited earlier), preceded by the appropriate abbreviation, such as Ed.
  5. Publication information for any print version of the source
  6. Title of the Internet site (e.g., scholarly project, database, online periodical, or professional or personal site (underlined) or, for a professional or personal site with no title, a description such as Home page
  7. Name of the editor of the site (if given)
  8. Version number of the source (if not part of the title) or, for a journal, the volume number, issue number, or other identifying number
  9. Date of electronic publication, of the latest update, or of posting
  10. For a work from a subscription service, the name of the service and--if a library or a consortium of libraries is the subscriber--the name and geographic location (e.g., city, state abbreviation) of the subscriber
  11. For a posting to a discussion list or forum, the name of the list or forum
  12. The number range or total number of pages, paragraphs, or other sections, if they are numbered
  13. Name of any institution or organization sponsoring the site (if not cited earlier)
  14. Date when the researcher accessed the source
  15. URL of the source or, if the URL is impractically long and complicated, the URL of the site's search page. Or, for a document from a subscription service, the URL of the service's home page, if known; or the keyword assigned by the service, preceded by Keyword; or the sequence of links followed, preceded by Path.

Scholarly Project

Victorian Women Writers Project.
Ed. Perry Willett. May 2000.
Indiana U. 26 June 2002 .

Information Database

Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet.
19 June 2001.
Lib. of Congress, Washington. 18 May 2002 .

Personal Site

Lancashire, Ian. Home page. 28 Mar. 2002.
15 May 2002.
Book
Nesbit, E[dith]. 
Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism
.
London
, 1908. Victorian Women Writers Project.
Ed. Perry Willett. May 2000. Indiana U. 26 June 2002 .
Poem
Nesbit, E[dith]. "Marching Song." 
Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism
.
London
, 1908. Victorian Women Writers Project.
Ed. Perry Willett. May 2000. Indiana U. 26 June 2002 .

Article in a Journal

Sohmer, Steve.
"12 June 1599: Opening Day at Shakespeare's Globe."
Early Modern Literary Studies

3.1 (1997): 46 pars. 26 June 2002 .

Article in a Magazine

Levy, Steven. "Great Minds, Great Ideas."
Newsweek 27 May 2002. 20 May 2002.

Work from a Library Subscription Service

Youakim, Sami. "Work-Related Asthma." 
American Family Physician
64 (2001): 1839-52.
Health
Reference Center
.
Gale. Bergen County Cooperative Lib.
System, NJ. 12 Jan. 2002 .

Work from a Personal Subscription Service

"Table Tennis." Compton's Encyclopedia Online.
Vers. 2.0. 1997. America Online. 4 July 1998.
Keyword: Compton's.

Posting to a Discussion List

Merrian, Joanne. "Spinoff: Monsterpiece Theatre."
Online posting. 30 Apr. 1994.
Shaksper: The Global Electronic Shakespeare Conf.
23 Sept. 2002.

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