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Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger, " Citation Styles", online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources , c2000.

This website conveniently hyperlinks to citations of webpages, emails, listservs, FTP and telnet information, among other electronic types of publication. In addition, it even shows how to cite electronic resources using MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE Styles.

Josie Tong, Herbert T. Coutts Education and Physical Education Library, University of Alberta, " Citation Style Guides for Internet and Electronic Sources", University of Alberta Libraries, 7 November 2001.

This website published by the University of Alberta in Canada also includes links to style manuals found on the Internet.

Karen Patrias, M.L.S., Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, National Library of Medicine Recommended Formats for Bibliographic Citation. Supplement: Internet Formats, July 2001.

(CAUTION: This is a 106-page document!)

Li, Xia and Nancy B. Crane. Electronic Style: A Guide to Citing Electronic Information. Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing, 1993. (in Veterinary Medicine Library reference section under call number 808.02 L612e)

This website does give examples and guidelines on how to cite websites. It even includes a reference to its 1999 print style manual, which explains electronic citations as well.

Style Manual Committee, Council of Biology Editors. Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers. (6th ed.). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, c1994. (in Veterinary Medicine Library reference section under call number 029.6 C76s 1994)

(in Veterinary Medicine Library reference section under call number 655.25 C43m 1969)

Young, Bruce, ed. A Manual of Style. (12th ed., rev.). Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, c1969.

CAUTION

Internet references are convenient, but they do have some drawbacks and dangers. For more information about this topic, see " Going, Going, Gone: Lost Internet References" by Robert P. Dellavalle, et al. in Science, Volume 302, Number 5646, Issue of 31 Oct 2003, pp. 787-788.