5.INTERNET REFRENCE IN VEDIO CLICP
INTERNET REFERENCE IN LITERATURE
Internet reference are the literature search we are getting through internet like blogs, websites, Emails and other social medias.
Internet research the sourcesThe sources from which you borrow words or information when you write speeches or papers
need to be properly acknowledged, regardless of the nature of the original source. The internet is
becoming a more valuable and more commonly used tool for carrying out academic research.
This information sheet is designed to provide basic information about how to acknowledge a
variety of different internet sources using the American Psychological Association (APA)
reference style. More information is available in the Publication Manual of the American
Psychological Association (2001).
Remember that there are two parts to citing sources in APA style:
1) The first part is in-text citations. In-text citations are labels that are inserted next to each
piece of prose or information that comes from another source. In APA style, the in-text
citation is made up of the year the original source was published and the name or names of
the author(s), enclosed in parentheses.
2) The second part is the works cited or reference list. This is an alphabetized list of all the
sources that are cited in the paper. It is attached to the end of the paper. The list contains not
only the author’s name and the publication date, but also information like the book or article
title and the publisher. It should include all the information that a reader needs to find the original source.
In-text Citations of Internet Sources Based on Print Sources:
Many of the sources that we consult over the internet are actually based on print sources. For
example, we may read a New York Times article over the web or consult a .pdf copy of an article
from an academic journal through one of the libraries’ academic databases. If your internet
source is based on a print source, you should cite it in the text of the paper in the same way you
would if you cited the print source. For example, if you consulted an article by J. Markoff about
Apple’s iTunes music sales in the hard-copy, dead-tree version of the New York Times and
wanted to include information from the article in your paper, it might look like this:
Apple reported that it sold 70 million songs through iTunes in its first year (Markoff, 2004).
If you went to the New York Times website or the Lexis/Nexis database and read the same article
online, your in-text citation would look exactly them same. (As discussed below, however, the
entry for the article in the reference list will vary depending on where you read the article.)
Similarly, if you were paraphrasing a 1993 academic article by W. J. Potter that you found on the
shelves of the library, you could cite it like this:
Some critics of cultivation theory argue that it fails to take into account the fact that audiences select what they
watch (Potter, 1993). Reference List Entries for Internet Sources Based on Print Sources:
Again, all sources need to be included in a reference list that should be attached to the end of
your paper. The purpose of the reference list is to provide the reader with enough information to
track down your original source if they’re interested in doing so.
Again, you need to include all your sources, including internet sources, in your reference list.
Many types of online sources are so new that the field is still developing the specific formats
through which they are noted in the reference list. There’s likely to be some variation in the
specific way in which the information in reference list entries are arranged across different
authors.
However, the principle is that you need to provide enough information to allow a reader to track
down the original source or, if that proves impossible, allow the reader to evaluate the credibility
of that source. Since webpages can change so rapidly, it is not adequate to simply list the URL in
the reference list. By the time someone reads your paper, the URL may no longer be
functioning. The page to which it leads may have changed. Providing additional information
about the webpage may help readers to find the information if it has been moved. It also allows
them to determine for themselves whether the source is credible and current.
There is, therefore, some basic information that you should always provide for each of your
internet sources. If you are citing information that was first published on the web, you need to
provide:
Advantages and disadvantages of intrenet refrence in literature
Advantages of Internet refrence literature
*There is easily access to meterial since the Researcher can search any time of the day.
*Websites provide a network that the Researchers can contact about their topic and research problem.
*Select research studies can be printed immediately from websites.
Disadvantages of intrenet refrence literature
*Research posted to websites is not reviewed for quality by experts.
*Research studies may be difficult to find and time consuming to locate.
*Full-text electronic journal available on the web are New and few in nuber.
Examples
Online journals
Organization websites
Topic websites
Emails
Wikipedia
GOOGLE FORM
