[1] From: Al Magary <almagary@cris.com> (62)
Subject: Re: 9.753 Quoting URLs >>citing electronic sources
[2] From: Al Magary <almagary@cris.com> (13)
Subject: Re: 9.753 Quoting URLs >>citing electronic sources--
CORRECTION
[3] From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@utoronto.ca> (10)
Subject: Eudora's ability to recognize URLs
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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 04:16:42 -0700
From: Al Magary <almagary@cris.com>
Subject: Re: 9.753 Quoting URLs >>citing electronic sources
Andrew Burday wrote:
> FWIW, the relevant RFC recommends (but doesn't require) that URLs in a
> plain text context be prefaced with "URL:". (Someone recently pointed
> this out to me; I had been happily ignorant of it for a long time myself.)
> See the appendix to
>
> <URL:http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Addressing/rfc1738.txt><snip>
This citation style originates with Tim Berners-Lee, at the CERN high-energy
physics lab in Switzerland. He may someday bear the title Father of the
World Wide Web, but not, it seems, of Internet bibliographic style. I have
some examples below of what style is evolving in MLA-style citation.
Xia Li and Nancy B. Crane, reference librarians at the University of
Vermont, are two leaders in this field. Their _Electronic Styles: An
Expanded Guide to Citing Electronic Information_ will appear in a new
edition this year. Their concise Web page links to separate concise pages
on MLA (humanities) and APA (scientific) "embellished" styles:
http://www.uvm.edu/~xli/reference/estyles.html
Maurice Crouse at the University of Memphis has more commentary on
electronic bibliography, and in passing suggests that students print hard
copies of transitory electronic information such as email and newsgroup
postings. His Web page:
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~crousem/elcite.html
IAT InfoBits 10/95 included an index of sources on e-style:
http://www.cmns.mnegri.it/WWW_HTML_IT/extern_resources/
citing_internet_ref.html
Li and Crane lay out most of the citation formats in their Web document.
Below are their examples to convey the flavor of MLA-style citations. This
being an email, _underlining_ indicates the traditional underlining or
italics. Note (1) "Available HTTP" and similar are always part of the
citation style; (2) the entire URL or other electronic address is sometimes
on a separate line, to help solve the problem of extra hyphens or spaces
(however, punctilious punctionists as they are, Li and Crane end the URLs
with an awkward period); (3) the access date is always given.
Signing off here, examples below,
Al Magary
almgary@concentric.net
**FOR A BOOK ONLINE:
Pritzker, Thomas J. _An Early Fragment from Central Nepal_. N.D. Online.
Ingress Communications. Available HTTP:
http://www.ingress.com/~astanart/pritzker/pritzker.html. 8 June 1995.
**FOR PART OF A WORK ONLINE:
Daniel, Ralph Thomas. "The History of Western Music." _Britannica Online:
Macropaedia_. 1995. Online. Encyclopedia Britannica. Available HTTP:
http://www.eb.com:180/cgi-bin/g:DocF=macro/5004/45/0.html. 14 June
1995.
**FOR A JOURNAL ARTICLE ONLINE:
Carriveau, Kenneth L., Jr. Rev. of _Environmental Hazards: Marine
Pollution_, by Marth Gonnan. _Environmental Green Journal_ 2.1 (1995): 3
pars. Online. Available Gopher:
gopher://gopher.uidaho.edu/11/UI_gopher/library/egj03/carriv01.html. 21
June 1995.
**FOR A MAGAZINE ARTICLE ONLINE:
Viviano, Frank. "The New Mafia Order." _Mother Jones Magazine_ May-June
1995: 72 pars. Online. Available HTTP:
http://www.mojones.com/MOTHER_JONES/MJ95/viviano.html. 17 July 1995.
**FOR AN ARCHIVED DISCUSSION (MAILING) LIST MESSAGE:
RRECOME. "Top Ten Rules of Film Criticism." 1 Apr. 1995. Online posting.
Discussions on All Forms of Cinema. Available E-mail:
LISTSERV@american.edu/Get cinema-l log9504A. 1 Aug. 1995.
**FOR A PERSONAL ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION (EMAIL):
Day, Martha (MDAY@sage.uvm.edu). "Review of film -- Bad Lieutenant." E-mail
to Xia Li (XLI@moose.uvm.edu). 30 July 1995.
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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 14:43:47 -0700
From: Al Magary <almagary@cris.com>
Subject: Re: 9.753 Quoting URLs >>citing electronic sources--CORRECTION
A quick correction to my post of earlier today about citation styles for
electronic sources. My smart electronic intermediary to the
Internet--Netscape Navigator 2.01--spots as many URLs as it can and
preserves them as hotlinks. This means turning them blue (purple if I
have been to that address) *and* underlining them. Thus my post
inadvertently contained both text coloring and extra underling.
Mesdemoiselles Li and Crane do *not* suggest text coloring
or underlining/italicizing of URLs or other electronic addresses in
citations. Their Web URL:
http://www.uvm.edu/~xli/reference/estyles.html
My keyboard (BASH!) called them punctilious punctionists; punctilious
punctuationists is what I meant.
Al Magary
almagary@concentric.net
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Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 10:28:48 -0400
From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@utoronto.ca>
Subject: Eudora's ability to recognize URLs
In Humanist 9.753 Andrew Burday referred to the RFC (which stands for...?)
recommendation that URLs be quoted in the form,
<URL:http://foo.bar/X/Y/z.html>
and in passing raised the question of how Eudora (and other software
claiming to recognize URLs) would handle this. My tests with Eudora Pro --
which will load the page referenced in the designated browser when you to
click on a URL -- show that it is not thrown by the additional
metalinguistic symbols.
W
Willard McCarty, Univ. of Toronto || Willard.McCarty@utoronto.ca
http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/~mccarty/wlm/