A guide to citing Internet resources Available to Purchase

Staff at Boumemouth University Library & Information Services had been receiving requests from students for guidance on how to cite sources of information found on the Internet. No standards yet exist, although there are many suggestions to be found on the Web itself. We decided to put together a set of recommendations based on those suggestions that seemed most likely to be adopted by the UK information community. The article describes the chosen style, gives advice for finding the information required for producing a reference and discusses some of the issues involved, both for those wishing to cite online sources and those responsible for producing them.