Recording and Citing Web Sources

When using a Web document as a source, locate and record the following citation elements:

Author of the Work

Title of the Work

Title of the Web Site

Date of Publication/Last Update

Site Address (URL) and Date Accessed

Record Notes

When taking notes, create a separate heading for each idea and record the citation elements from your sources. Indicate whether the material is a direct quotation, a paraphrase, or a summary of the information. Following is a sample note for a quotation (see also sample notes for paraphrases, p. 67, and summaries, p. 69).

NOTES FOR A QUOTATION:

Orally Cite Sources in Your Speech

In your speech, alert the audience to the source of any ideas not your own.

QUOTATION:

In an article on the nature of time posted on the Web site Nobelprize.org, professor of comparative literature Anders Cullhed notes how difficult it is to understand the nature of time. For example, he quotes Saint Augustine, who said, “What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobody asks me; but if I am asked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.”

You can find more information about oral citation in Chapter 11.

For guidelines on various citation styles including Chicago, APA, MLA, CSE, and IEEE, see Appendix A.