... I have to write some essays and I have to (obviously) cite any sources I use. I found a quote from Aristotle but I can find no actual source for it other than Wikiquote and I am unsure how to properly cite such a thing. ...
One of the things I did when I wrote the
Age Correlations and An Old Earth, Version 2 No 1 thread was try to provide proper documentation for the material I used. Like you I could find no hard and fast "rule" about it, but I was able to cobble together a basic format to use with on-line sources.
quote:
Where possible, I have tried to follow the standard academic procedure for citing online publications, where if you last accessed this page on 12May2010, and used version 2 number 1, you would cite this as:
Smith, Paul "Age Correlations and An Old Earth" EvC Forum. Ver 2 no 1 updated 27 Jan 2007, accessed 12May2010 from EvC Forum: Age Correlations and An Old Earth, Version 2 No 1.
That would be
author/s,
article or web-page title (in italics), source name (journal, blog, etc), when the article\page was originally posted (if available), when it was last updated (if available), the date you accessed it and the url used.
Unfortunately the link to format is broken, but other sites have something similar.
See the bottom of
Message 2 for examples using wiki and other on-line resources.
It also seems that the formats used depend somewhat on the discipline on the order of the citation specifics, so there would appear to be some flexibility, as long as the information is complete enough for another person to access it to verify the material.
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