EVALUATING
AN INTERNET SITE:
Before you use an Internet site in your research, you may want to follow
some of these guidelines first.
Click
here to learn about evaluating an Internet resource.
CITATION
MACHINE
Are you researching states, countries, or animals?
Here is a great web site to help you cite your sources of information.
Select bibliography information for books, magazines, newspapers, web sites
and even interviews.
MLA STYLE WEBSITE--an example of how
to write an entry is shown below:
McEldowney, Philip. Women in Cinema: A Reference Guide. Dec. 1994.
2 Aug.1999
<http://poe.acc.virginia.edu/~pm9k/libsci/womFilm.html>.
(Note that the second line should actually be indented as well as
any subsequent lines.)
MLA STYLE ENTRY FROM an ONLINE
ENCYCLOPEDIA or DICTIONARY--an example of how to write an entry is shown below:
“Millennium.” Britannica Online. 15 Jan. 1998 <http://www.eb.com/>.
MORE ONLINE REFERENCE STYLES
SUCH AS ONLINE MAGAZINES, E-MAILS, GROUP DISCUSSIONS:
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Here.
HUMANTIES STYLE--an example of how to write
an entry is shown below:
To cite files available on the WWW, give the author's name, last name
first (if known); the full title of the work, in quotation marks; the title
of the complete work (if applicable), in italics; any version or file numbers;
and the date of the document or last revision (if available). Next, list
the protocol (e.g., "http") and the full URL, followed by the date of access
in parentheses.
Burka, Lauren P. "A Hypertext History of Multi-User Dimensions." MUD
History. 1993.
http://www.utopia.com/talent/lpb/muddex/essay
(2 Aug. 1996).
SCIENTIFIC STYLE--an example of how to write
an entry is shown below:
Give the author's last name and initials (if known) and the date of
publication in parentheses. Next, list the full title of the work, capitalizing
only the first word and any proper nouns; the title of the complete work
or site (if applicable) in italics, again capitalizing only the first word
and any proper nouns; any version or file numbers, enclosed in parentheses;
the protocol and address, including the path or directories necesssary
to access the document; and finally the date accessed, enclosed in parentheses.
Burka, L. P. (1993). A hypertext history of multi-user dimensions. MUD
history.
http://www.utopia.com/talent/lpb/muddex/essay
(2 Aug. 1996).
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