Except for the modifications stated here, use the Chicago style of SF Express (1, sec. 12) to document all sources of information used in your reports for this class. These modifications allow some additional flexibility for reports written as web pages, and they require some special handling of references for the electronic sources. This page has examples of most of these modifications.

In-Text Citations

- Instead of a superscript number (1, p. 115), you may put the note number in parentheses. This conserves valuable vertical space when writing reports as web pages.

- Superscript citations are placed after punctuation marks (1, sec. 12a). Citations in parentheses may be placed before.

- You may include page numbers and other locating information within a citation. This can significantly reduce the number of notes required. These citations, however, can become rather long. If their number or length begins to distract from the text of your report, use some notes instead.

- Sequential numbering of citations (1, p. 116) is not required.

Notes

- Use endnotes rather than footnotes.

- Indenting notes (1, p. 117) is not required.

References to Electronic Sources

Use the models that appear in the notes for this page. They are based in part on the most recent edition of The Chicago Manual of Style (2), and they probably cover most of the cases you will encounter.

Web Pages

As a general guidline, treat a web page as if it were a comparable paper source.

- Web pages often do not provide all of the source information that paper sources do. You may omit what you cannot find with a reasonable effort.

- A reference to a web page must show the full URL of the page, and it must be linked to the page. This allows access to the source page from either the printed or the electronic form of your report.

- The web publishing information for a web page must have an access date, which is the date on which you viewed the source; and that date also must be linked to a copy of the source page which is saved in your own web space. This is how we cope with disappearing web pages.

- Links to other parts of a web page reference are optional.

Print and Electronic Sources

- If a source on the web also appears in print, use the SF Express model for the print version of the source followed by the words "Also available online at" and then the URL and the web publishing information as it would be in a web page reference.

Bibliography

- A bibliography is not required, unless the report assignment specifically asks for one.

- References in a bibliography normally have a slightly different format than in notes (1, sec. 12b). You may use the note format in a bibliography.

Notes

1. John Ruszkiewicz, Maxine Hairston, and Christy Friend, SF Express (New York: Longman, 2002). A printed book.

2. The Chicago Manual of Style: The Essential Guide for Writers, Editors, and Publishers, 15th ed. (University of Chicago Press, 2003). A book with no author.

3. William Aspray, ed., Computing Before Computers (Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1990 ). Also available online at http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/DocumentArchive/Documents/Books/Computing Before Computers/CBC.html (Computer History Museum, accessed 2004 Aug 11). A printed book with an editor and also available online.

4. "Academic Integrity," http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/sjs/academicintegrity.html (The University of Texas at Austin, accessed 2004 Aug 18). A web page.

5. Lisa C. Kaczmarczyk, "CS 234: Technical Writing," http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/lisak/syllabus234.html (The University of Texas at Austin, accessed 2004 Aug 18). A web page with an author.