Basic citation components and punctuation
Author's Last Name, First Name <author's internet address, if
appropriate>. "Title of Work" or "title line of message." In "Title of
Complete Work" or title of list/site as appropriate. <internet
address>. [menu path, if appropriate]. Date, if available. Archived at:
if appropriate.
The samples below indicate how citations of particular electronic
sources might be made:
Listserv Messages
- Curtin, Phillip <curtinpd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>. "Goree and the
Atlantic Slave Trade." In H-AFRICA. <h-africa@msu.edu>. 31 July
1995. Archived at: <gopher.h-net.msu.edu> [path: H-NET E-Mail
Discussion Groups/H-AFRICA/Discussion Threads/Goree and the Atlantic
Slave Trade--item number 465].
- Lobban, Richard <RLobban@grog.ric.edu>. "REPLY: African Muslim
Slaves in America." In H-AFRICA. <h-africa@msu.edu">. 4 August
1995. Archived at: <http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~africa/archives/august95>.
- Walsh, Gretchen. "REPLY: Using African newspapers in teaching." In
H-AFRICA. <h-africa@msu.edu>. 18 October 1995.
World Wide Web
Limb, Peter. "Alliance Strengthened or Diminished?: Relationships between
Labour & African Nationalist/Liberation Movements in Southern Africa."
<http://neal.ctstateu.edu/history/world_history/archives/limb-l.html>.
May 1992.
FTP Site
Heinrich, Gregor <100303.100@compuserve.com>. "Where There Is Beauty,
There is Hope: Sau Tome e Principe." <ftp.cs.ubc.ca> [path:
pub/local/FAQ/african/gen/saoep.txt]. July 1994.
Gopher Site
- "Democratic Party Platform, 1860." <wiretap.spies.com> [Path:
Wiretap Online Library/Civic & Historical/Political Platforms of the
U.S.]. 18 June 1860.
- Graeber, David <gr2a@midway.uchicago.edu>. "Epilogue to *The
Disastrous Ordeal of 1987*".
<gopher://h-net.msu.edu:70/00/lists/H-AFRICA/doc/graeber>. No date.
Usenet Group Messages
- Dell, Thomas <dell@wiretap.spies.com>. "[EDTECH] EMG: Sacred
Texts (Networked Electronic Versions)." In <alt.etext>. 4 February 1993.
- Legg, Sonya <legg@harquebus.cgd.ucar.edu>. "African history book
list." In <soc.culture.african>. 5 September 1994. Archived at:
<http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/faq/archive/african-faq.">http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/faq/archive/african-faq.general.html>.
E-mail Messages
Page, Mel <pagem@etsuarts.east-tenn-st.edu>."African dance...and
Malawi." Private e-mail message to Masankho Banda. 28 November 1994.
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