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The use of internet referencing for authoratative citations within this web-site. |
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James Lester in Citing Cyberspace [1997] states that: Currently, most Internet sources have no prescribed page numbers or numbered paragraphs. You cannot list a screen number because monitors differ. You cannot list the page numbers of a downloaded document because computer printers differ. Therefore, in most cases do not list a page number or a paragraph number… the marvelous feature of electronic text is that it's searchable, so your readers can find your quotation quickly with the FIND feature. Hence, internet sources are not referenced with page numbers in this study i.e. cited references, appearing in the body of the text, which include author and date, but no page number, refer to internet sources. If the author has not been credited in an internet research source, e.g. news reports, then the internet research source is cited within the body of the exegesis as a footnote, rather than in the bibliography. Likewise, if the internet source is not dated, the URL and access date is cited as a footnote for ease of access. Wherever possible Lester’s guidelines for establishing the academic credibility of internet sources have been followed in choosing internet references.
Lester, James, D.; (1997). Citing Cyberspace. Accessed 29-10-02.
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