Citing internet sources

Basic information you need to cite a web page.
Basic information you need to cite an article published on the internet.
Adding a record for a webpage or article published on the internet.
Samples.

Please make sure you take a look at the
General Guidelines for entering names, titles, dates, and pages in CiteWrite records.

The basic information you need to cite a web page is:

Author (if one is listed)
Very often, this is an organization, and it will be listed either at the top of the page you are on, or on a page "previous" to the one you are on. If there is no author or publisher listed, leave this field blank.
Remember, names always need to be entered like this:
Smith, Jane R.; Wilson, James B.; Lee, R. W.
(Additional rules for entering information are outlined in the General Guidelines.
Year published on the web
If the date is not listed at the top of the article, look for a copyright notice at the bottom of the page. If no date is listed on the page, enter the year as "n. d." (no date).
Page title
This is the main title for the page. Many web pages are part of a collection of pages (e.g., "Edison," in "Science History Archives" at the Library of Congress's website). If this is the case, you can enter the title of the collection in the Collection field, and the organization sponsoring the website (e.g., Library of Congress, Marine Institute) as the Publisher. Most of the time, you can find this information by going to the "Home" page for the site.
Date Accessed
This is the date you looked at the page. A good rule of thumb is to use your browser to save a copy of any web page you cite. You can print it, or click File, Save to save a copy of the html file on your computer.
URL
This is the website address of the page. You can copy this from your browser to the CiteWrite record. In CiteWrite, this URL becomes and active link: double clicking on it will start your browser and go to the webpage.

The basic information you need to cite a journal article published on the internet is:

Author (if one is listed)
Very often, this is an organization, and it will be listed either at the top of the page you are on, or on a page "previous" to the one you are on. If there is no author listed, leave this field blank. Remember, names always need to be entered like this:
Smith, Jane R.; Wilson, James B.; Lee, R. W.
Year of publication
If the date is not listed at the top of the article, look for a copyright notice at the bottom of the page. If no date is listed on the page, enter the year as "n. d." (no date).
Day, month
If the periodical is a magazine or newspaper, the date is almost always listed at the top of the article.
Article title
Journal (or magazine) name, Volume, Issue
Date Accessed
This is the date you looked at the page. A good rule of thumb is to use your browser to save a copy of any web page you cite. You can print it, or click File, Save to save a copy of the html file on your computer.
URL
This is the website address of the page. You can copy this from your browser to the CiteWrite record. In CiteWrite, this URL becomes and active link: double clicking on it will start your browser and go to the webpage.

More information on finding the different kinds of bibliographic information, with illustrations, is included in the topic "Finding Bibliographic Information." Once you know the basic facts about the web page, you're ready to enter a record in Citation.

To add a record for a web page or an article published on the internet:

On the CiteWrite screen, click the New Record button, and, using the examples below, select the proper form for the web page. In the examples, the name of the form is at the very top of the record.
Use the examples below as a guide to indicate how to enter the various kinds of information in the record. Note that in most cases, you will have a few BLANK fields.
You do not have to fill in all the blanks -- just the ones that pertain to the particular web page you are citing, and the information that is available for that web page or article.

Articles published or retrieved from the web