Citations
for Electronic Sources
compiled from Bedford St. Martins' MLA guidelines
(and other interested chemistry courses and CORE 108)
by Patricia Kay Jue, Department of Chemistry, Colgate University, 26 Feb 2002
World Wide Web sources
The general format is:
Author (if known),”Title of Page or Document.” Title of Site or Larger Work (if applicable). Date of document. Online, available http://address/filenamme. Date of access
Copied from http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc/humanities/info.htm
"For a citation of a personal or professional Web site, begin with the creator of the site (if available) and continue with the title of the site (or a description such as "Home page" if no title is available), the date of publication or of the latest update, the name of any organization associated with the site, the date of access, and the URL.
"Spanoudis, Steve, Bob Blair, and Nelson Miller. Poets'
Corner. 2 Feb. 1998. 4 Feb. 1998. http://www.geocities.com/~spanoudi/poems.
"Blue Note Records. 19 Mar. 1998. Blue Note Records. 25 Mar. 1998 http://www.bluenote.com."
Journal Material from a Computer Service or OnLine Database
The general format is:
Author. “Article Title.” Periodical Title Date of print publication (if available). Edition (if any): pages. Database Name (if any). Online. Name of computer service. Date access.
Many sources advise listing personal e-mail addresses in a citation. However, there is a danger of violating the privacy of the author or the recipient. However, for the purposes of chem. 263/4 reports, you should include the e-mail address and keep a copy of the e-mail message in case there is a question about your source (It would be prudent to keep a hard copy of the message until the end of the grading term.)
The general format is:
Author of the e-mail message. “Subject line of the message.” E-mail to recipient’s name. E-mail address. Date of message.
for an on-line journal article
The general format is:
the author(s) of the article, “title of the article,” the journal name including the designation, Online [serial online] in brackets, the date of the article and the Internet address, date of access
Example:
Perrine, D.M., Sabanayagam, N. R.; Reynolds, K.J. “Synthesis of NMP, a Fluoxetine (Prozac) Precursor, in the Introductory Organic Laboratory,” J. Chem. Educ. Online [serial online] 1998. Available from:http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/Journal/issues/1998/Oct/abs1266.html. Accessed 1999 July 28.
World wide web source using a search routine
The general format is:
Author, “title of reference work,” searched under “ word used “. Online. Title of Database or Online service. Available http://address/filename. Accessed: Date of access.