Commentaries (Free)

• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Darby’s Synopsis
• Geneva Study Bible
• Gill’s Exposition of the Bible
• Jamieson, Fausset, Brown
• Matthew Henry Concise
• Matthew Henry Complete
• People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• The Fourfold Gospel
• Treasury of David
• Wesley’s Explanatory Notes
• Burton Coffman Commentaries

Concordances (Free)

• Nave’s Topical Bible
• Torrey’s Topical Textbook
• Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Dictionaries (Free)

• Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary
• Easton’s Bible Dictionary
• Hitchcock’s Bible Names
• King James Dictionary
• Smith’s Bible Dictionary

Encyclopedias (Free)

• Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia
• Lexicons
• Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
• New Testament Greek
• Old Testament Hebrew

Traditional Reference

• Wikipedia (Free)
  Free Online Open Encyclopedia
  
• Dictionary (Free)

Historical Reference

• Project Wittenberg (Free)
• Selected works of Martin Luther (Free)
• Wesley’s Sermons (Free)
• The Works of James Arminius (Free)
• Fox’s Book of Martyrs (Free)
• Sketches of Church History (Free)
• Bible History, Old Testament (Free)
• Essays in Medieval Studies (Free)

Philosophical Reference

• Philosophy Resources on the Internet (Free)
• The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Free)

Christian Counseling

• American Counseling Association
• CCEF Home Page Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation
• American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC)

How to Cite Electronic Documents

With the advent of the internet over the past decade, there has been an increasing requirement for information about properly treating the citation of Internet sources.

In recent years I have received ever more frequent requests to add the “citation of Internet sources” to the APA Format, and APA Style pages on my Writing Help Central Website.

Accordingly, my summary of the key points for including APA citations in a paper, as per the APA Publication Manual.

Please note that the material below is based on my understanding of the APA standards that I consulted when I wrote this. If you have a complex citation situation, please check the APA Publication Manual.

American Psychological Association (APA)

The APA (1994, 218) suggests that World Wide Web citations follow this form:

•  Periodical [On-line]. Available: specify the path.

Last Name, First Initial. (year). Title of the article. Name of

A real example would be as follows:

•  Available: http://www.vcsu.nodak.edu/masu/geogpol.html

Meartz, P. (1995). The rule of 90+. The Island Sun.[Online].

Of additional note is that since E-mail and USENET newsgroups are not permanent forms, the APA suggests that you follow the personal communication format for them (1994, 174). They are not to be included in the reference list in APA style, thus if I were giving a reference for this concept and had received it in an E-mail letter, I would end my sentence with its citation (P. Meartz, personal communication, October 17, 1995), but no mention would be made in the reference list at the end of the document.

The MLA

The MLA (Gibaldi 1995, 151-167) suggests that World Wide Web citations follow this form:

•  of the Database or Web Page. Online. Internet. Date accessed.

Last Name, First Name. “Title in Quotation Marks.” Date. Title

Meartz, Paul. “The Rule of 90+.” 1995. The Island Sun. Online. Internet. 17 Oct. 1995.

Do note that the MLA has numerous variations identified for Online and other sources. In addition, the Web Page–is it an electronic magazine, a personal page, etc.–makes a difference. Consult the manual for full information.

Chicago and Other Simple Citations by Example

The following sample shows several types of citations and uses the Turabian/Chicago style format with a reference list at the end. [Do note that, as far as we are aware, Turabian/Chicago does not have a clear Internet form at this time, and the form shown is speculation based on their general format.] The items used include books, encyclopedias, magazines, and scholarly journals. Many other types are possible. [See the style manuals for those.]

Meartz (1987) found bankruptcies to be a serious threat to North Dakota’s future. Meanwhile, in Venezuela, the exploration of the interior highlands continues without concern for North Dakota’s problems (George 1989, 526). But it is being said in certain places that “timber was being carried away at high speed” (Orwell 1976, 95). Some places have found the issue silly (Encyclopedia Zots, 1992), while others have devoted pages (Carmarto 1991). The theft of lumber has even generated its own home page on the web (Luther 1995)

At the end of the document, you would find the following:

List of References [or Bibliography, or Selected Bibliography]

•  Available: http://www.netco.com/lumber/tree.html

Luther, David. 1995. Lumber page growing. New Pages Web Site.

Sample Bibliography

•  Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

American Psychological Association. 1994. Publication Manual.

•  New York: Modern Language Association.

IL: University of Chicago.

Gibaldi, Joseph. 1995. Handbook for Writers of Research Papers

Turabian, Kate. 1987. A Manual for Writers. 5th ed. Chicago,