REF: Citations

[Joan Rosen <jrosen@MCIUNIX.MCIU.K12.PA.US>]

I think I missed the original question, but I noticed recently a posting
on citing (or not) the electronic source when using an entire magazine
article obtained from a CD, or on-line.

It is my impression that one should ALWAYS cite the electronic source when
such a source is used.  That is, in truth, where the writer obtained the
information.  The same is true when using SIRS Researcher or SIRS in
print, as their suggested bibliographic form indicates.  The teacher,
reading and evaluating the student's paper, might otherwise well question
where the student obtained such a (relatively) obscure newspaper article,
for instance.  And the evaluator of the paper, or other reader, needs also
to know how to access that source information him- or herself.  That,
after all, is the purpose of the bibliography.

Joan


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