In article <Pine.ULT.3.91.960912103256.11226C-100000 at essex.UCHSC.edu>,
Teresa Binstock <binstoct at essex.UCHSC.edu> wrote:
>I wish to cite something I posted to several newsgroups. I wish
>specifically to know how to cite:
>> bionet.immunology
I imagine it would depend on the journal. You may want to check Paul
Hengen's column in one of the Trends in ... journals; Paul regularly cites
information he's received on bionet.methds-reagnts.
There is an accepted method for citing internet and Usenet posts for the
MLA style; a summary written by Janice R. Walker is on the web, of course,
at various places including
<http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/MLAStyleSheet.html>
and
<http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/mla.html>.
The example she cites for Usenet communications is -
Newsgroup:
York, Ian. "Re: Wonder Bread Psychosis." alt.folklore.urban. (18
Oct 1995).
-thus neatly preserving for posterity the definitive proof that I'm a
shiftless wastrel with too much time on his hands. And I don't even get
royalties.
Posted and mailed.
Ian
--
Ian York (iayork at panix.com) <http://www.panix.com/~iayork/>
"-but as he was a York, I am rather inclined to suppose him a
very respectable Man." -Jane Austen, The History of England
