Citing Internet Sources...A Necessary Evil

With the ease of finding so much information on the internet, we sometimes forget that we need to be sure to cite anything we have obtained for our use in a magazine, book, or blog post. Many editors require a list of sources to help their fact checkers. It'll also establish your credibility. If nothing else, documenting your sources is important for your own records. The information found may not be there in six months.

The following are sample entries for citing Internet sources:

Basic form:
  Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Work." Title of Complete Work. Date of electronic publication .

Scholary project:
  Title of scholarly project/editor/date of electronic publication/sponsor/date of access /electronic address (URL)

Professional site:
  P​ortuguese Language Page. U of Chicago. 1 May 1997 .

eBook:
   Author’s last name, First name. “Title of the chapter or section.” Title of the e-book, translated by or edited by First name Last name, vol. number, Publisher, Year of publication, page number(s). Title of the web site or database, URL.

Poem:
   Last Name, First Name. "Title of Poem." Website Title. Date of poem published (day-month-year order). Publication Medium (Web). Date you accessed poem.

Article in a reference database:
   Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of article. Title of Journal, volume number, page range. Retrieved from https://www.someaddress.com/full/url/

Article in a journal:
   Flannagan, Roy. "Reflections on Milton and Ariosto." Early Modern Literary Studies 2.3 (1996): 16 pars. 22 Feb. 1997 .

Article in a web magazine:
   Last, First M. "Article Title." Magazine Title. Date Month Year Published: Page(s). Print.

Posting to a discussion list:
   Merrian, Joanne. "Spinoff: Monsterpiece Theatre." Online posting. 30 Apr. 1994. Shaksper: the Global Electronic Shakespeare Conference. 27 Aug. 1997 .

Personal site:
   Last Name, First Name. Home page. Day Month Year .

Blog post:
   Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. “Title of Post.” Blog Name, Publisher (only include this information if it is different than the name of the blog site), Date blog post was published, Link to post (omit http:// or https://).

I hope this helps guide you along the way to cite your sources. And as always...Keep on Writing!

Sources:
Alphin's et al. Searching: A Research Guide for Writers. Writer's Institute Publications: 2008. Print.
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