Citing electronic sources

This seems a good place to point out a few pages which discuss how to cite sources available solely or additionally in electronic form. The electronic journals citation analysis mentioned below provides a useful partner to these documents, suggesting that electronic sources lack the permanence any academic citation needs.

• The ISO has produced a draft standard for citing electronic documents, FDIS 690-2.
• Citing Electronic Sources (UCL)
• Citing Electronic Sources (Library of Congress)
• Citations of electronic documents in an electronic document. World Wide Web page, 1995.
• Citation formats. World Wide Web page, 1995. libsf@web.cc.emory.edu
• MLA-style citations of electronic sources. Janice R Walker. Technical Report 4/95, Department of English, University of South Florida, January 1995. Endorsed by the Alliance for Computers and Writing.
• ...and a collection of pointers.

Finally, you might compare this with a recent paper The Impact of Electronic Journals on Scholarly Communication: A Citation Analysis, published in PACS, which describes a formal study on the impact of electronic journals on scholarly communication, by measuring the extent to which they are being cited (quoted from the abstract).

Norman 1 January 2001