How to Cite Online Documents - Electronic Collection

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Deposit online publications to the E-Collection

An excellent source of information is the supplement to Library and Archives Canada's Bibliographic Style Manual.1 This supplement by Danielle Thibault, entitled "Section 3: Electionic Documents"2, is based on the International Standard ISO 690-2 Information and documentation - Bibliographic references - Part 2: Electronic documents or parts thereof.

Specific entry outline for a bibliographic reference for an online electronic document

Author. -- Title [descriptive identifier] : subtitle. -- Secondary authors. -- Edition, version number. -- Publication data, i.e., site name, publication date if available, date of update of revision [Reference date]. -- Notes. -- Access: <>. -- Standard number

Example

Montgomery, Lucy Maud. -- Anne of Avonlea [online]. Project Gutenberg/IBC [Cites April 14, 1998]. -- Originally published in Boston by L.C. Page & Co., c1909. -- Access: <ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/etext/gutenberg/etext92/avon10.txt>

Specific entry outline for a bibliographic record for a part of an online electronic document - periodical articles

Author. -- "Article title". -- Serial title [descriptive identifier]. -- (Issue designation). -- Date of update or revision [Reference date]. -- Access: <>. -- Standard number

Example

Tozer, Paula. -- "Celebrating women's achievements: women in Canadian legislature". -- National Library News [online]. -- Vol. 30, no. 1 (Jan. 1998). -- Revised Jan. 6, 1998 [Cited April 4, 1998]. -- Also available in French. -- Access : <http://www.collectionscanada.ca/pubs/nl-news/1998/jan98e/3001-05e.htm>. ISSN 1200-4472

Specific entry outline for a bibliographic reference for discussion list messages

Author of the message. -- "Subject of the message". -- Name or host message system [descriptive identifier]. -- Publication data, i.e., name or location of the host message system, the host organization name, date the message was sent, i.e., month, day, year, hour [Reference date]. -- Notes. -- Access: <>

Example

Corneau, Roger E. -- "Object of Contemporary RM Program". -- RECMGMT [online]. -- New York: University of Syracuse, Nov. 7, 1997, 9:38 [Cited on August 15, 1998]. -- Access: <LISTSERV@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>

Specific entry outline for a bibliographic reference for personal electronic communications (E-mail)

Author of the message. -- Subject of the message [descriptive identifier]. -- Name of recipient preceded by the words Message to (optional). -- Date the message was sent [Reference Date]. -- Personal communication

Example

Cumming, Brenda. -- Electronic citations [online]. -- Message to James Ford. -- July 12, 1998 [Cited Aug. 15, 1998]. -- Personal communication

1. Danielle Thibault, Bibliographic style manual, Ottawa : National Library of Canada, 1990, vii, 194 p.

2. Danielle Thibault, Bibliographic style manual, "Section 3, Electronic documents", Ottawa : National Library of Canada, 1998, 7 p.


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