How to Cite a Document Reference With HTML

HTML documents have grown in number over the past decade. Many scholarly works can be located in the Internet, and yours can easily be transferred to the Internet with a little bit of formatting. One of the more confusing elements is the citation, and here's how to do it right.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

1. Create the citation in a text editor that doesn't do formatting code. Notepad is an excellent program for this, as is Vi.
2. Set the citation inside of the tag. End the citation with the tag. These tags display depending on the settings of the browser, but they're consistent with the viewer's expectations of a citation.
3. Link URLs to their respective locations by employing the anchor tag: yoururlhere.net
4. Use tags to create an italics slant for most browsers. Though it's not perfect, due to the aforementioned settings-dependent display, the default display for this tag is italics. As before, use an ending tag, .
5. Place tags for those rare instances when you need bold, since the default display for this tag bold. Don't forget to place an end tag, at the end of the section that's bolded.
6. Copy and paste the citation(s) into your HTML document. Be sure to place them inside of the tags, or they won't be part of the HTML document.

Tips & Warnings

• Find out what format you'll be using for citations first, and follow it strictly. You can locate more information about citations ate the W3 Consortium website.