Chapter 15 of Writing Online offers guidelines and examples for citing WWW and Internet sources using the citation recomendations from the Columbia Guide to Online Style (CGOS), the Modern Language Association (MLA), and the American Psychological Association (APA). The Crosslinks for this chapter include links to the offical pages for these guidelines, and links to guidelines for the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS).

• Publishers Page for the Columbia Guide to Online Style by Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor includes examples of how to apply the style. The site also offers an updates section, where new examples will be posted as the WWW evolves.

• The MLA Style as presented by the Modern Language Association. This includes a brief section on documenting web sources.
• The CSU Writing Center MLA Guide offers a rich array of both print and WWW examples. This is a good place to go if you're in the library but forgot your handbook.
• Comic Art in Scholarly Writing: A Citation Guide by Allen Ellis, a member of the Comic Art and Comics area of the Popular Culture Association, offers detailed guidelines that lean "toward the style of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers." The site's worth noting because it shows how scholars attempt to adapt a given set of guidelines to forms not normally associated with academic writing. As WWW users, you'll need to apply this skill often.

 

• Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association is the official APA page on citing WWW and Internet sources. It's part of their larger Frequently Asked Questions about the APA Publication Manual.
• The Style Helper is software sold by the APA for creating citations and other document mechanics (cover pages, headings, and so on) in formats approved by the APA.
• The CSU Writing Center APA Guide offers a rich array of both print and WWW examples. This is a good place to go if you're in the library but forgot your handbook.

 

• The Chicago Manual of Style FAQ (and Not So FAQ) comes from the University of Chicago Press, the manual's publisher.
• The CSU Writing Center Chicago (Turabian) Guide offers a rich array of both print and WWW examples. This is a good place to go if you're in the library but forgot your handbook.
• Bertrand Library's Turabian's Style Guide for Print Sources and Electronic Sources offers excellently detailed help. Note: The file for electronic sources is in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). If you do not have the Adobe Reader, you will not be able to read the file. Try the file; if it doesn't load, go to Adobe for the free Acrobat Reader.