Re: form for listing URLs... (summary of responses)

Nick Arnett (narnett@verity.com)
Mon, 13 Nov 1995 15:24:47 -0800


Plenty of responses came quickly...

From: Barbara Berg <barbarab@muskox.alaska.edu>
>There is a document that explains this quite clearly at:
>
>http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/mla.html
>
>There is also a book:
>
>Li, Xia and Nancy Crane. Electronic style: a guide to citing electronic
>information. Wesport: Meckler, 1993.

From: pfa@nwu.edu (Pat Anderson)
>The following is how I have been telling my children to cite a
>URL. So far, no complaints from the teachers.
>
>Style:
>
>Author or authority. "Page Heading Name" in: WEB SITE NAME.
>URL, date last updated or date accessed.
>
>Example:
>
>Anderson, Pat. "On Reading Nursery Rhymes With Children of
>Varying Ages" in: THE MOTHER GOOSE PAGES. URL :
>http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~pfa/dreamhouse/nursery/reading.html.
>Last modified September 14, 1995.

From: Peter Milbury <pmilbury@cusd.chico.k12.ca.us>
>
>Here is the guide that we use at our library, and is one of our library
>research links.
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Janice R. Walker (jwalker@chuma.cas.usf.edu)
> Department of English
> University of South Florida
> 4202 East Fowler Avenue, CPR 107
> Tampa, FL 33620-5550
> January, 1995 (Rev. 4/95)
>
>
> MLA-STYLE CITATIONS OF ELECTRONIC SOURCES
>
[long body omitted, see links]
>
>This style sheet is also available as a link from the following sources:
>
> * Taft College, http://www.taft.cc.ca.us/www/tc/tceng/mla.html
> * University of Tennessee at Martin,
> http://www.utm.edu/~cgesell/syllabus.html
> * Daemen College, http://www.daemen.edu/services/wpage/wpage.html
> * The Alliance for Computers and Writing,
> http://prairie_island.ttu.edu/acw/acw.html
> * Fort Nelson Secondary School, British Columbia at
> http://www.schdist81.bc.ca/~LRC/RCHome.html
> * Land, T. [a.k.a. Beads]. "Web Extention to American Psychological
> Association Style (WEAPAS)."
> http://www.nyu.edu/pages/psychology/WEAPAS/ (2 Oct. 1995).
> * Lafayette College Libraries,
> http://www.lafayette.edu/library/homepage.html.
> * University of Connecticut, http://www.lib.uconn.edu/English/
> * The Saline Library District Webserver, Saline, MI,
> http://198.111.173/3/citation.html.
> * Berkeley Library, Berkeley, CA,
> http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/MLAStyleSh
> eet.html
> * Towson State University, Towson, MD,
> http://www.towson.edu/~duncan/chauhom2.html
> * Valparaiso University, http://www.valpo.edu/writing_center.html
> * University of Michigan, http://www.rescomp.housing.umich.edu/
> * Hamline University Library Systems, http://www.hamline.edu/library
> * Hawaii's Online Learning Assistance,
> http://kalama.doe.hawaii.edu/hern95/pt035/