Online databases - Parenthetical citations–reference list style: citing specific types of sources - Part II. Source Citation

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Online databases
Parenthetical citations–reference list style: citing specific types of sources
Part II. Source Citation

For citation of journal articles published in online databases, see 19.2.8. For other types of online databases, list the database as a whole in your reference list if you cite multiple documents or records from it. Give the name of the database (in roman type), the URL for the main page, and the date (or range of dates) you accessed the material. Note that a URL alone is not sufficient; you must provide the full facts of publication, as far as they can be determined, so that a reader can search for the source even if the URL changes.

R: Perseus Digital Library. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ (accessed February 1—March 31, 2006).

If you cite only one document or record from such a database, list it individually in your reference list. Give the author and title of the document (if available), the name of the database (in roman type), the URL for the specific page, and the date you accessed the material. For dissertations in online databases, see 19.6.1.

R: Pliny the Elder. The natural history, ed. John Bostock and H. T. Riley. In the Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plin.+Nat.+1.dedication (accessed March 31, 2006).

To cite a document or record in your text, include as much information as possible to link the citation to the reference list entry. Place this information either in a parenthetical citation (with the elements separated by commas) or in the text.

P: (Pliny the Elder, Perseus Digital Library)

. . . as illustrated in Pliny the Elder's treatise The Natural History (Perseus Digital Library).