• Home
• About the Library
  • Services
  • Library Etiquette
  • Organization of the CHS Library
  • Library Home
• Research
  • Librarian's Internet Index
  • Noodle Tools
  • Google Advanced Scholar Search
  • Massachusetts Statewide Datebase (need public library card)
  • Boston Public Library Electronic Resources (need public library card)
  • Librarian's Internet Index
  • Quotations
  • Time's 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century
  • Conversations with History
  • Kids Click
  • Kidspace@the Internet Public Library
  • Primary Sources on the Web
  • Encyclopedia Brittanica
  • Washington Post
  • Webster's Dictionary Online
• How To
  • Cite Electronic Resources
  • The Citation Machine
  • The Free Automatic Bibliography Composer
  • Locate Materials in the BPL
  • Locate Materials in the Metro Boston Library Network (MBLN)
  • Teachers' Website Evaluation
  • Student Website Evaluation Checklist
• Guidelines
  • Copyright Info
  • More Copyright Info
  • How to Recognize Plagiarism
  • How to Write Effectively
  • How to Write an Outline
  • How to Write a Thesis
• Resources-Web
  • Boston Athenaeum
  • City of Boston
  • The Freedom Trail Foundation
  • Museum of Science
  • WGBH
  • The Beehive-Boston
  • Mass Answer
  • Computer Currents Online
  • Most Populous Cities
  • Passport Express
  • Semantic Rhyming Dictionary
  • Weather
• Search Engines
  • Google
  • All the Web
  • Ask
  • Dogpile
  • Yahoo
  • Clusty (organizes results in clusters)
  • Mooter
  • Kartoo
  • Grokker
  • Mamma
  • Library of Congress
• Teachers' Resources
  • The Educator's Reference Desk
  • Edsitement
  • Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
  • MLA Style
  • Facing History and Ourselves
  • The Internet Public Library
  • Teachers Helping Teachers
  • Martindale's The Reference Desk
  • The New York Times Navigator
  • Earth's Biggest Selection of Books and Related Materials
• College Resources
  • American Universities
  • College Applications
  • College Board Online
  • Financial Aid
  • Scholarship Info

Charlestown High School Library

Cite Electronic Resources

A. An Article in a Microform Collection of Articles Example:

• Osterman, Elsie. "Reading Lists Stir Up Censorship Problem." Sunday Republican [Springfield, Massachusetts] 15 Apr. 1990. NewsBank: Education (1990): fiche 42, grids F3-4.

B. Periodicals on CD-ROM (If the periodical article came from a CD-ROM database, also cite the publication medium [i.e. CD-ROM] and vendor's name.) Examples:

• "Crossing 'Schindler' Off the List." World Press Review Aug. 1994: 47+. ProQuest Resource/One. CD-ROM. UMI Company. Apr. 1995.
• Meyer, Michael. "Putting the 'PC' in PCs." Newsweek 20 Feb. 1995: 46-48. ProQuest Resource/One. CD-ROM. UMI Company. Apr. 1995.
• Solin, Sabrina. "Do Not Read This." Seventeen Sep. 1994: 98. ProQuest Resource/One. CD-ROM. UMI Company. Apr. 1995.

C. Newspaper Article on CD-ROM (If the newspaper article came from a CD-ROM database, also cite the publication medium [i.e. CD-ROM] and vendor's name.) Examples:

• "Don't Ax Federal Support for Art." Editorial. New York Times. 13 Jan. 1995, late ea.: A30. New York Times Ondisc. CD-ROM. UMI Company. Apr. 1995.
• Kurson, Ken. Letter. New York Times. 8 Jan. 1995, late ed., sec. 13: 14. New York Times Ondisc. CD-ROM. UMI Company. Apr. 1995.
• Laurino, Maria. "Hollywood Presents: Government as Villain." New York Times. 12 Feb. 1995, late ea., sec. 2: 13+. New York Times Ondisc. CD-ROM. UMI Company. Apr. 1995.

D. Nonperiodical Publications on CD-ROM (e.g. encyclopedias, reference works) Examples:

• "Censorship." Academic American Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. Danbury: Grolier, 1995. When information is missing, cite what is available.
• "Censorship." Academic American Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. 1995.

E. Online Databases or Computer Networks (e.g. Prodigy, America Online, Dialog, CompuServe, etc. The last part of the citation is the date that you accessed the online service.) Examples:

• Alston, Robin. "The Battle of the Books." Humanist (10 Sep. 1993) n. pag. Online. Internet. 10 Oct. 1993.
• "Anti-NEA Display Dismantled in the House." Fileroom. Online. Internet. 26 June l995. Available http://fileroom.aaup.uic.ude.
• "Censorship." Compton's Encyclopedia. Online. America Online. 26 June 1995.
• Gartner, Michael. "Forces of Fear Limit What Kids Can Read." USA Today 13 Sep. 1994, final ed: 13A. USA Today. Online. Dialog. 26 June 1995.
• Lemire, Marc. "New Book on Zundel." 18 June 1995. Online posting. Newsgroup alt.censorship.canada.dumb. America Online. 26 June 1995.
• Seinfeld, Jerry. "Censorship of TV Show." E-mail to Cosmo Kramer. 26 June 1995.

Video Recordings and Television Programs Examples:

• Understanding Our World: Powers of the Supreme Court. ABC News Interactive. Videodisc. American Broadcasting Companies, 1991.
• We the People, the U.S. Constitution. Prod. Jefferson Video. Videocassette. Britannica, 1990.
• "Yes . . . but Is It Art?" Narr. Morley Safer. Sixty Minutes. CBS. WBZ, Boston. 19 Sep. 1993. (The date at the end is the date of the broadcast)