Recent PACS-L Discussion

From williamson@de45.nidr.nih.gov Mon Mar 20 13:44:20 1995
Date:Tue, 07 Mar 1995 12:03:00 -0500 (est)
From: "Williamson, Mary Ann" To:HOEMANN
Subject:RE: Citation of Electronic Sources

Here is the compilation of sources; I also sent it to PACS-L.
Mary Ann Williamson

From: Williamson, Mary Ann
To: Connolly, Frank W.
Subject: Citation Format: Responses from PACS-L
Date: Thursday, March 02, 1995 10:10AM

Patrias, Karen. National Library of Medicine recommended formats for bibliographic citation. Bethesda, Md. : National Library of Medicine, Reference Section, 1991. 248 p.

Chapter XII, Sections C (serials in electronic formats), E (bulletin boards), and F (Electronic mail) have been reprinted in: Strangelove, Michael and Kovacs, Diane. Directory of electronic journals, newsletters, and academic discussion lists; edited by Ann Okerson. 3d ed. Washington, D.C. : Association of Research Libraries, 1993. pp. 13-26.

One guide that mentions gophers and how to cite items found on them is: "The Complete Guide to Citing Government Information Resources: a manual for writers & librarians". Diane L. Garner. Congressional Information Service. 1993.

The latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style now has a section on citing electronic resources.

1. Use the URL where possible, e.g. URL:ftp://xxx.nodename.nz/pub/dirname/filename

2. Use the information given in Crane and Li, but use it with caution. Nancy Crane and Xia Li, eds, *Electronic Style* (Meckler, 1993). See my review in *Internet Research* (Spring, 1994), also at: URL:http://aultnis.rutgers.edu/pgrutgers.html

Li, Xia and Nancy B. Crane, Electronic Style: A Citation Guide to Citing Electronic Information, (Westport, Conn.: Meckler, 1993). -xi, 1-65. ISBN 0-88736-909-x

The APA Publication Manual (fourth edition) has a *very* limited section on citing some Internet sources (e.g. email and FTP). Anyone interested in examples of citations to online/electronic material may wish to consult the new APA guide available electronically. Send a message to LISTSERV@CMSA.BERKELEY.EDU with the command: INDEX TESLEJ-L. In the index listing there is a file named TESLEJ-L APAGUIDE. For you info, TESLEJ-L is the electronic journal of TESOL (Teaching English as a Second Language).

Additionally, College and Research Library News, Sept. 1994, p. 511 gives a brief description of how to cite Internet sources.

For those of us who are interested in cataloging the resources of the Internet, Bruce E. Mills mentioned a draft document, "Guidelines for bibliographic description of Internet resources," which is available from OCLC. The print edition can be ordered from OCLC (Product code 8320) for $22.50. This document is also available in a PostScript version via anonymous FTP as follows: Host: ftp.rsch.oclc.org Dir: /pub/internet_resources_project/report Files: *.ps

the new APA Style manual also has the its way of handling electronic citings.