Citation Style Guide   Tags: website  

How do I cite electronic sources?

See how this issue is addressed by different the different styles. Click on the links provided and look for the highlighted term "electronic."

As you collect sources for your assignment, keep citation style requirements in mind. In particular, you may be required to include the following in your references.

• author(s)/editor(s)
• titles of articles, chapters, books, periodicals, etc.
• publication date
• date accessed (usually for electronic sources)
• web page URL (http://....)
• publisher
• city of publication
• page number(s)
• database used
• edition used
• volume number(s)
• issue number(s)
• print or electronic format used
• series number (sometimes provided)

When you cite a source, you show how your voice enters into an intellectual conversation and you demonstrate your link to the community within which you work. Working with sources can inspire your own ideas and enrich them, and your citation of these sources is the visible trace of that debt...

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These online citation style guides provide overviews, for more in-depth coverage and for more obscure types of resources use the actual style guides found in the Library's collection.