>At the Medieval Religion and Cyberspace session at Kalamazoo
>participants expressed interest in guidelines for citing on-line
>sources. I am therefore posting the address of the Columbia Online Style
>page on MLA style citations of electronic sources, as endorsed by the
>Alliance for Computers and Writing.
>http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/mla.html
>I would be interested in receiving information about any other
>guidelines to referencing this kind of material, and would be delighted
>to receive any comments list members have on the Columbia system, or any
>other. If people wish to reply off-list, I will happily compile a `list
>of lists' regarding the topic.
>Thanks,
>Ron R
I'am teaching a course about the use of computers in history at the University of Zurich
right now and had two students doing a very concise speech just on that topic last tuesday.
I will have their papers within the next few weeks and can e-mail them (after serious proofing,
of course :-) ) to the list, if the list-members appreciate it.
for the moment, just a few remarks:
Citations from the Internet is a subject already well discussed in the USA, but European
academic research doesn't seem to face the heavy problems by this new possibility yet.
(Liability on the one hand, but availability as well....)
In America, it is mainly the standarts of the
MLA (Modern Language Association) and of
APA (American Psychologist Association) that are used to quot on-line-sources.
Besides the URL given by Ron Ross, see also the german page of Jens Bleuel:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jbleuel/ip-zit.htm
(In spite of the commercial provider of the homepage, it is very informative and up to date.
In fact, it is based on the authors thesis done at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz,
Institut für Publizistik. )
for english listmembers and especially for historians:
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mcrouse/elcite.html
hope this helps... more later.
Greetings
Niklaus Schatzmann
University of Zurich
8032 Zurich
Switzerland
P.S. to shortly come back to our friend Renihan:
Ceterum censeo Bill Orientem esse laudandum. Please go on, your comments are
the salt in the soup of my not always very adventurous academic day...
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