There is now a near-official standard, developed with funding from US
Federal Office of Library Programs and involving Lib. of Congress through
Online Computer Library centre Inc., Nacy B. Olson, Editor, 1995:

   Cataloguing Internet Resources: A Manaual and Practical Guide

(ISBN 1- 55653-189-3), and available on-line on WWW in two forms (though
I think the text is the same:

http://ftplaw.wuacc.edu/listproc/intercat/manual.txt  (approx. 73K long)

http://wings.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/Internet/olson.html (approx.
81K long - also beware of the capital "I" at "/Internet/" in the address.

It is available for free distribution and use providing the copyright
statement and attributions are retaained in full.

The whole document assumes familiarily with contemporary library practice
(especially the current Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules - AARC, as well
as the MARC machine-readable cataloguing format) though it is not too
difficult to extract the principles involved in eg. producing
standardised academic journal citations for Internet (and indeed other)
computer file publications and records.

Patrick Boylan

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On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, John Chadwick wrote:

> At 11:18 AM 1/10/96, Eileen Mak wrote:
> >
> >I know this question has come up before, but I ignored the answers then
> >because it was not an issue for me. So, if anyone can help now I'd
> >appreciate it.
> >
> >I have a friend who is a teacher. He has a student who has done much of
> >her research on the web. He wants to know how she should cite the stuff.
> >Is there a standard? Are there publications which explain citing the
> >information highway? A cyber-MLA or Chicago Style Manual?
> >
> Eileen,
>
> Check out the APA publication manual, 4th edition. There is a very thorough
> section on how to cite electronic references, web pages, ftp sites, e-mail.
>
>
> --john
>
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