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First Revised Edition with updated sample citations and style changes.

Elizabeth Mills' QuickSheet provides a template for citing historical sources on the Internet. It also lays down rules to help you judge the reliability of these sources.

Published in the form of a laminated folder, the QuickSheet contains a series of sample citations showing the correct way to identify online sources such as databases, census images, and digital books and articles.

Based on the premise that online sources are publications that have the same characteristics as printed publications, it provides rules and models for common record types such as passenger lists, vital records, and newspapers. Since a website is the online equivalent of a book, the QuickSheet shows you how to cite author/creator/owner of a website, title of the website, place (URL), date posted, and so forth.

Convenient for desktop use at home or in the library, the QuickSheet answers all those niggling questions left unanswered by the standard citation guides; it is also a perfect companion to the classic citation manual Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian and Mills' 885-page definitive guide to the citation and analysis of historical sources, Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace.

Also by Elizabeth Mills:
QuickSheet: Citing Ancestry.com Databases & Images
QuickSheet: Genealogical Problem Analysis. A Strategic Plan Evidence! Style
QuickSheet: Citing Online African-American Historical Resources Evidence! Style
QuickSheet: The Historical Biographer's Guide to the Research Process
QuickSheet: The Historical Biographer’s Guide to Cluster Research (the FAN Principle)
QuickSheet: The Historical Biographer’s Guide to Finding People in Databases & Indexes
Professional Genealogy: A Manual for Researchers, Writers, Editors, Lecturers, and Librarians