Whatever style you choose, accuracy, clarity, and consistency are the most important factors when citing information sources. Guidelines for citing electronic sources are not yet standardized. Information sources, such as the Internet, are constantly changing, and therefore citation formats are adapting to these changes.
MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION (MLA)
An association that has developed standardized methods of citing sources for research. They have also formulated guidelines for citing electronic sources. The bibliography is called "works cited."
Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of work."
Article's original source and publication
date: page numbers. Product name. Publisher. Date researcher visited site. <Electronic Address, or URL, of the source>.
Example:
Lanken, Dane. "When the Earth Moves." Canadian Geographic March-April 1996:
66-73. MasterFILE Premier on-line. EBSCO
Publishing. 15 Apr. 1998
<http://www.epnet.com/ehost/login.html>.
Instead of footnotes or endnotes, the author's last name and a shortened version of the title are place in parenthesis within the body of the text.
Example: (Lanken, When the)