How to Cite Internet Materials

Excerpted from
The Columbia Guide to Online Style


Web Page1

Humanities Style

To cite an individual Web page, give the author's name, the title of the page, enclosed in quotation marks, capitalizing the first word and all major words, followed by the date of publication and/or last modification, the complete URL, including the protocol (e.g., "http"), and the date of access enclosed in parentheses and followed by a period. If the page is part of a larger Web site, include the site title in italics. Example:
Downes, Stephen. "The New Literacy." 4 Oct. 2002. Stephen's Web.
http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/website/view.cgi?dbs=Article&key=1033756665&format=full (8 Mar. 2006).

Scientific Style

To cite an individual Web page, give the author's name, the date of publication or last modification, enclosed in parentheses and followed by a period, and the title of the page, capitalizing only the first word, any proper nouns, and the first word after a colon in the title, if applicable. Give the complete URL, including the protocol (e.g., "http"), and the date of access enclosed in parentheses and followed by a period. Example:
Cressia, L. L. (1997). Copyright and fair use: Future of fair use.
http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/courses/fall97/concl.html (27 Mar. 2006).

Notes

1 Walker, Janice R. and Todd Taylor. "The Columbia Guide to Online Style – second edition."
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-13210-7/the-columbia-guide-to-online-style (2006).



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