Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Smith College: Citing Your Sources

According to Wikipedia, citations for World Wide Web pages typically include the following list below.  *Caveat:*  you may not be able to determine all of the information below, but if you are fairly certain you're using a reputable source, include as much of the information below as you can:

• URL of the webpage
• name of the author(s)
• title of the article within quotation marks
• name of the website
• date of the website's publication
• page number(s) (if applicable)
• the date you retrieved (or accessed) the webpage (required if the publication date is unknown)

When citing from biographical notes and other short texts affiliated with special collections and archives, include as much information as possible. 

Sample text in an article:

Florence R. Sabin's Wikipedia entry ^[1] needs a LOT of work, although her biographical note^[2] is quite nice.

Sample references (tied to the footnotes above):

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_R._Sabin
2. Biographical Note, Dorothy Kenyon Papers finding aid, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College.

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