Thanks to everyone who responded to my e-mail. The MLA website seems
useful, and I recommend (for what it's worth) Dan Kline's website as a
straightforward, well laid out guide.
Cheers
Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel T Kline [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 12 August 1999 09:40
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: referencing online texts...
>
> Chris,
>
> The MLA site is a good one, but I've also used the website
> supporting a St. Martin's reference book called Online: A
> Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources. (It's the handbook I
> require my students to get). It will give you detailed examples
> for all sorts of electronic media and Internet materials. You
> can access the Online website at
> <http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/>. Another helpful site
> is Diane Hacker's Research and Documentation Online at
> <http://www.smpcollege.com/hacker/resdoc/>. Both sites have
> extensive examples in the MLA, APA, Chicago, and Council of
> Biology Educators (CBE) styles. I might also modestly add that
> I've put together a website for online documentation at
> <http://cwolf.uaa.alaska.edu/~afdtk/docprimer.htm>.
>
> Hope this is helpful.
>
> Dan Kline
> U of Alaska Anchorage
>
> James R Ginther wrote:
> >
> > | Does anybody have a satisfactory answer to the problem of
> referencing
> > | online texts? It seems more and more excellent essays are
> published
> > | online, but I have constant problems with my bibliography.
> > |
> > | Chris Dell
> >
> > the MLA has published some guidelines, which I think are pretty
> > useful. It seems to me that the main data that must be included
> > (in addition to author and title) is the full URL and the date of
> > publication, ie that last date the site was updated. Most sites
> print
> > this on the homepage, but Netscape allows you to check the
> > period of last update by looking at the page's information section
> > (found under the VIEW pulldown menu). IE probably allows the
> > same, but I make it a policy not to know too much about this
> > application, spawn of the devil that it is. :-)
> >
> > the MLA URL is:
> >
> > http://www.mla.org/main_stl.htm
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jim
> >
> >
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> > Dr James R Ginther
> > Dept. of Theology and Religious Studies
> > University of Leeds
> > Leeds LS2 9JT UK
> >
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