McGraw-Hill Guide to Electronic Research
Format for Citing Sources at the End of Your Paper-- Works Cited, Bibliography, References
(Note: you may either italicize or underline titles, as long as you use one format consistently throughout your paper. Indentations are five spaces. Your entire list should be double spaced, with no extra spaces between entries. If information is not available--for example, the name of the author, just list whatever information you have, in the order given below, without blank spaces.)

Standalone Database or CD-ROM

Author(if given). "Title." [or the heading of the
          material you read] Title and publishing
          information of original in print, if known.
          Title of the database. Publication medium.
          Vendor (if relevant). Electronic publication
          date.

Kael, Pauline. "Pauline Kael Review: West
        Side Story. I Lost It at the Movies.

        Cinemania 96. CD-ROM. Microsoft. 1996.



Quittner, Joshua. "A Web of Uses for Spiders' Silk
        (Spiders' Silk for Soldiers?)." Newsday

        6 July 1991 sec. News:10. Newsday Index. CD-
        ROM. 1992.

"Safety Assured." Work Study. 42 (Sept.- Oct.

        1993): 29-30. ABI/Inform. CD-ROM. 1995.

Online Source or Website

Author or organization(if known). "Title of the
             article." Title of the complete work (if given)
     date of publication or last revision (if given)
             <address of the Website> (date you viewed it).

Harrison, Mick J. "Poisoning Ourselves with Toxic
        Incinerators." Sept. 1994 Top Censored

        Newstories of 1994! 25 Aug. 1995

        <http://www/censored.sonoma.edu/

        ProjectCensored/ (3 June 1996).

If you reached the Website from a link on another Website
   where readers of your paper could find additional
    relevant information, give the title of that Website
   and the linking phrase.

Author or organization. "Title of the article." Lkd.
                [abbreviation for linked from] Title of site
                you jumped from--if relevant, at "Title." [the
                phrase which took you to the cited Website]
                [address of the Website you are citing] (date
                you viewed it).

Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry
          "Index." LKD. Envirolink Library at
          "Government." <http://atsdr1.atsddr.
          cdc.gov:8080/atsdrhome.html> 6 June 1996.

Direct e-mail to you (not a discussion group)

Author [title or area of expertise]. E-mail to the
         author [that's you] date.

   Young, Sally, PhD [Director of Freshman Writing

       Program,U of Tennessee]. E-mail to the

       author. 13 May 1996.

Posting to a Discussion Group

Real name of author. <e-mail address of author> "The
         subject line of the article." The date of the
         posting. <the group to which it was sent--
         multiple groups separated by a comma> via [which
         means by way of] <where the article can be
         retrieved> date you viewed it.

   Nevers, David M. <dmnevers@ix.netcom.com> "Re:

           Women's Violence against Men." 14 June 1996.

           <alt.feminism,soc.men> via

           <http:xp6.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?recnum=....

           db96q3&CONTEXT=839273750.20857&hitnum=56>

           5 Aug. 1996.

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