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10. d. On-line Help about How to Cite Sources
You Find on the Internet



A Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities. It was developed by Melvin E. Page, History Department, East Tennessee State University. It is based on the citation principles in Kate Turabian's A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 5th ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987). Gives examples for both footnotes and bibliographical entries. Includes a bibliography about the subject of citing Internet sources. Some of the entries are to hard-copy publications, others to materials available on the Internet. Note: For technical reasons relating to the Web, the examples do not have indentations. Be sure to follow proper indentation formatting in your own footnote citations or bibliographical entries.

Basic CGOS Style. Taken from the hard-copy publication, The Columbia Guide to Online Style (Columbia University Press, 1998).

To read about a style that combines some of the features of the citation style used in the Chicago Manual of Style and Kate Turabian's Manual for Writers of Term Papers , Theses, and Dissertations (the two style manuals used most by historians) and that of the American Psychological Association, see Maurice Crouse, Citing Electronic Information in History Papers. Author is on the faculty of the Department of History, Memphis State University.


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