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I would like to cite material in the Home area or the Bibliography of Japan in English-Language Verse.
I appreciate your interest in citing material you have found here. I hope the following bibliographic examples adapted from the Columbia Guide to Online Style (Columbia UP, 1998) will help. Some styles, most notably MLA, have changed since this page went up. For a good overview of various citation guides see 'The Ultimate Style Guide Resources for MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE' @ the Guide to Online Schools. Also, please note that except in html (as in this page) bibliographic citations ordinarily have a hanging indent.
Unless otherwise indicated pages in the Home area are by David Ewick. The authors of those that are not are clearly indicated. The Bibliography is by David Ewick, some rights reserved, 2003.
Documentary-Note (“Humanities”) Style:
Author’s Surname, Given Name. “Title of Page” [with standard punctuation and typography]. Title of Complete Work. Document date or date of last revision. Protocol and address (date of access).
A citation to the first entry in the Bibliography, for example, accessed on the day that I am writing this, would be:
Ewick, David. “Sadakichi Hartmann, ‘The Influence of Japanese Art on Western Civilization.’” Japonisme, Orientalism, Modernism: A Critical Bibliography of Japan in English-Language Verse. 2003. http://themargins.net/bib/A/01.htm (accessed August 27, 2003).
A citation to this page would be:
Ewick, David. “Citations and Permissions.” themargins.net. 2003. http://themargins.net/citation.html (accessed August 27, 2003).
Author-Date (“Scientific”) Style:
Author’s Surname, Initial(s). Document date or date of last revision. Title of page [with standard typography]. Title of complete work. Protocol and address (date of access).
For example:
Ewick, D. 2003. Sadakichi Hartmann, The influence of Japanese art on Western civilization. Japonisme, orientalism, modernism: A critical bibliography of Japan in English-language verse. http://themargins.net/bib/A/01.htm (accessed August 27, 2003).
Ewick, D. 2003. Citations and permissions. themargins.net. http://themargins.net/citation.html (accessed August 27, 2003).
I would like to cite a poem or passage in the Archive of Japan in English-Language Verse.
Whenever possible citation to work included in the Archive should be to an original print publication and not to the version that appears here. In all cases publication details of previously published work are provided in notes on the Archive page or are linked conspicuously from it.
If you do not have access to a print version of the work you would like to cite, or if the work has made its first public appearance here, I hope the following examples adapted from the Columbia Guide to Online Style (see above) will help:
Documentary-Note (“Humanities”) Style:
Author’s Surname, Given Name. “Title of Page” [i.e., in this case, “Title of Poem or Passage” (with standard punctuation and typography)]. Title of Complete Work. Document date or date of last revision. Protocol and address (date of access). Original publication information.
A citation to the first poem included in the Archive, for example, accessed on the day that I am writing this, would be:
Costello, Louisa Stuart. “Supposed to be Sung by the Wife of a Japanese.” Emerging from absence: An Archive of Japan in English-Language Verse. 2003. http://themargins.net/anth/19thc/costello.html (accessed August 27, 2003). Originally published in Songs of a Stranger (London: Taylor & Hessey, 1825).
Author-Date (“Scientific”) Style:
Author’s Surname, Initial(s). Original date of publication. Title of page [i.e., in this case, Title of poem or passage (with standard typography)]. Title of complete work. Document date or date of last revision. Protocol and address (date of access). Original publication information.
For example:
Costello, L. S. 1825. Supposed to be sung by the wife of a Japanese. Emerging from absence: An archive of Japan in English-language verse. 2003. http://themargins.net/anth/19thc/costello.html (accessed August 27, 2003). Originally published in Songs of a Stranger. London: Taylor & Hessey.
I would like to cite a critical or contextual note in the Archive of Japan in English-Language Verse.
I appreciate your interest in citing this material. I hope the following bibliographic examples adapted from the Columbia Guide to Online Style (see above) will help.
Unless otherwise indicated notes in the Archive are by David Ewick, 2003. Those that are not are clearly indicated and may be subject to copyright protection. See I would like to cite a poem or passage in the Archive for guidance.
Documentary-Note (“Humanities”) Style:
Author’s Surname, Given Name. Untitled note. “Title of Page” [i.e., in this case, Name of Author (of the poem or passage noted), ‘Title of Poem or Passage Noted’]. Title of Complete Work. Document date or date of last revision. Protocol and address (date of access).
A citation to the note for Marie Stopes’s “To Japan,” for example, accessed on the day that I am writing this, would be:
Ewick, David. Untitled note. “Marie Stopes, ‘To Japan.’” Emerging from Absence: An Archive of Japan in English-Language Verse. 2003. http://themargins.net/anth/1910-1919/stopes.html (accessed August 27, 2003).
Author-Date (“Scientific”) Style:
Author’s Surname, Initial(s). Document date or date of last revision. Untitled note. Title of page [i.e., in this case, Name of Author (of the poem or passage noted), Title of poem or passage noted]. Title of complete work. Protocol and address (date of access).
For example:
Ewick, D. 2003. Untitled note. Marie Stopes, To Japan. Emerging from absence: An archive of Japan in English-language verse. http://themargins.net/anth/1910-1919/stopes.html (accessed August 27, 2003).
I would like to cite a document from themargins.net (or any www page) but I am confused about the http:// address to include in the citation.
Ordinarily the http:// address to include in citation of a World Wide Web document will appear in the address bar at the top of your browser window. For example, click on this link to the US version of the search engine Google, which will open in a new window. You should see at the top of the newly-opened window an address bar that says this: http://www.google.com/. If you do not see this, click on the “View” menu at the top of your screen and from the menu select “Address Bar.” The address bar will open at the top of the browser window and will contain the address of the page you are viewing, http://www.google.com/. This, minus the final slash (/), which indicates only that you are at the top or “root” level of the Google directory, is the http:// address you would include in a citation to the page: http://www.google.com.
As another example, and to illustrate possible exceptions to the rule, look at the address bar at the top of your browser window as you view this page. What you see depends upon the way you arrived here. The possibilities are:
1. http://themargins.net/citation.html
2. http://www.themargins.net/citation.html
3. http://dewick.themargins.net/citation.html
4. http://www.dewick.themargins.net/citation.html
5. http://themargins.net/citation.html#four
(or #one, #two,
etc.)
6. http://www.themargins.net/citation.html#four
(or #one, #two,
etc.)
7. http://www.dewick.themargins.net/citation.html#four
(or #one, #two,
etc.)
The preferred address to use in a citation is the first, the most economical form that includes all the information required to find the document: 1) the protocol (http, Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) followed by a standard separator (://), 2) the internet domain within which the document resides (themargins.net), 3) the path within that domain that leads to the document (indicated by the slash [/]), and 4) the file-name of the document itself (citation.html).
Please note that some sites require the www. to load properly, or automatically insert it in an address bar. Citation to a document in such a site properly includes the www.
If in your address bar you see
http://dewick.themargins.net/citation.html
or
http://www.dewick.themargins.net/citation.html
or
http://www.dewick.themargins.net/citation.html#four
then you are connected to a sub-domain of the margins.net, dewick, which mirrors the domain itself. The name of the sub-domain is not required to reach a margins.net document—in other words, if you delete the dewick. from the address bar and reload the page you will find yourself here at the citation.html document again—and so it is not a required or desirable part of citation to the page.
If in your address bar you see
http://themargins.net/citation.html#four
or
http://www.themargins.net/citation.html#four
or
http://www.dewick.themargins.net/citation.html#four
or
the http:// address followed by the pound symbol (#)
and any combination of letters or numbers
then you have reached this point in the document by clicking on a hyperlink—in this case probably the “I would like to cite a document from themargins.net (or any www page) but I am confused about the http:// address to include in the citation” at the top of the page—which has connected you to an “anchor,” a particular point in an html document, invisible in your browser, to which a hyperlink may lead. The anchor, always indicated in the address bar by the pound symbol followed by letters and/or numbers, is not a part of the http:// address for the document itself, and therefore is not a required or desirable part of citation to it.
The rule to follow in citing any margins.net document, therefore, and this may be extended to citation of other www documents, is to include in the citation the http:// address that appears in your address bar, but to omit 1) the www. when this is possible, as it always is at themargins.net, 2) any sub-domain name (and its separator, always a period [.]) if it is a mirror to the domain itself, as dewick is here, and 3) any anchor indication (# . . .) at the end of the document address.
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