Sharon Miller

LMS 521 SM 02

07/06/02

Citing Internet sources elective

Citing Internet Sources

Does anyone use books to research information anymore? Hmm, I wonder? I seems like everyone is now doing their research assignments online. I remember writing my works cited pages in the past, with conventional books, but how do you cite all this Internet information that is out there? Let’s find out how to cite Net references by looking at some examples.

http://salwen.com/mtquotes.html - In the APA style, this citation would be:

Salwen, P. (1996). The Quotable Mark Twain. Retrieved July 6, 2002, from http://salwen.com/mtquotes.html

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/af.html - For the APA style, the following would be the correct reference:

Afganistan. (2001). Retrieved July 6, 2002, from CIA - World Fact Book Web site:

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/af.html

http://www.nascar.com/DRIVERS/winston/KHarvick00/index.html - The MLA style would be:

“2002 Winston Cup Series Drivers.” Nascar.com. 2002. 6 July, 2002

< http://www.nascar.com/DRIVERS/winston/KHarvick00/index.html >

http://fno.org/jun01/building.html The MLA style would be:

McKenzie, Jamie, “Building Good New Ideas.” From Now On June 2001. 6 July 2002 <http://fno.org/jun01/building.html>

Of the four MLA web site choices the teacher had for giving her students, I would have chosen Skillman & Kirby Libraries · Lafayette College · Easton, PA. I think this web page had the easiest and most complete information that high school students would need. For example it has a link to pages on how to do parenthetical notes on Internet references. It also contains tips on how to find the author and title of the page if that information is not readily available. I learned a lot of tips from that part myself. Another feature I liked was the examples were given in MLA and APA. This informs the students that another reference style is out there, so if they have to do assignments for other classes that require the APA style, they can come to the same web site that they have used before. (This site helped me more with the APA style for the examples, than the actual APA site listed in the syllabus did.) There is also a link to the Reference Desk help line if the students have any questions. For all these reasons I would definitely use this site with my students and for myself.