On Tue, 11 Jul 1995, Jeremy Butler wrote: > Recently, Mario Gamper asked about citing SCREEN-L (and other on-line > services). Here's my standard rundown on this, which I cribbed > from pal Patrick Leary: <snip> > > The Xia Li and Nancy Crane book, _Electronic Style: A Guide to Citing > Electronic Information_ (1993), appears to have been the first in > the field with a workable format, based on American Psychological > Association style. That book would have a typical citation, > for example, read this way (the underline marks indicate italics): > > Butler, Jeremy. (1994, September 20). _Citing SCREEN-L_ [Online]. > _SCREEN-L: Film and TV Studies Discussion List_. Available e-mail: > [log in to unmask] <snip> Since SCREEN-L is archived I would take this one step further (since the purpose of citing is to allow the reader to locate the document for him/her self) I always use the URL. In citing Jeremy's posting today I would add: URL: gopher://ua1vm.ua.edu:70/00/Local ua1vm Listserv Archives/SCREEN-L/LOG9507B/SCREEN-L.LOG9507B.G.855 And I hope that I haven't included a typo! :-) -------------------------------------------------------------- Melissa Lee Price (Dr. Missy) | [log in to unmask] Dept. Jour/Telecom, Northwestern State University of Louisiana I can't be a WASP, I'm Welsh. ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]