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Minimum Data Needed |
Example of Citation |
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General Web Pages
(Includes all pages which are "changeable"
and thus require an "access" or "viewed" date, unless they otherwise have
a date or version number.)
(Online newspaper articles [see below] are not normally
"changeable." When citing, one can use their publication date.) |
- Page Author (if given)
- Page Title (if given)
- "Series" (Project, Course, etc.) name(s) (if applicable)
- Other data (date of posting or most recent update, and website
"publisher" or host)
- Access Date (Compulsory unless
the source is dated or has a version number!)
- URL (unless linked)
- Keep a Backup
Copy!
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For printed
papers, write the URL;
For web papers, link the page title to the URL
- Hopkins, John D. Citing Internet Sources. Version
4.4, 02 November 2005. PK5 Digital Literacy Course, Department of
Translation Studies, University of Tampere. URL:
<www.uta.fi/FAST/PK5/citing.html>.
- "The Forty
Niners," California as I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of
California's Early Years, 1849-1900. American Memory: Historical
Collections for the National Digital Library, Library of
Congress. Viewed 03 December 2009.
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Article in Online Newspaper or Journal
(Give access time [as well as date] if article is "breaking news"
or might otherwise change during the date of publication) |
- Author (if given)
- Title of article
- Name of source website
- Date of publication
- (Access time/date)
- URL (unless linked)
- Save copies of all material (with time/date, URL, etc.)
taken from news websites!
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Article in An Online Reference such as the
Encyclopedia Britannica or the FAST Glossary
Center |
- Author (if available)
- Title of article
- Title of online reference
- (Date of publication or update or version number)
- Publisher
- (Date of access)
- URL (unless linked)
- Make a backup copy!
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Personal E-mail
("Identify" the sender as relevant to the paper if his/her identity
was not established in the text or otherwise.)
'List' E-mail
("Identify" the list as well as the sender, if the identities were not
established in the text or otherwise.)
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- Author name [& address]
- [Author "identity"]
- Subject/'Title' of note [if given]
- List [or other means] through which received, if not personal
e-mail
- ["Identity" of List]
- Date/time note was sent [or received, as relevant]
- Make and keep a copy!
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Smith, Jane. In the
Stanford Orchestra, Violins Rule! E-mail note sent on 02 October 2004
at 0935 PST.
- Smith, Jane (<jsmith@stanford.edu>). [Violinist in the
Stanford University student orchestra.] In the Stanford Orchestra,
Violins Rule! E-mail sent to <MUSIC-L@listserv.org> [a list
for student musicians in university orchestras] on 02 October 2004 at 0935
PST.
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