AboutDan Smith Expertise I have been a professional writer and editor for more than 30 years, taught speech and English composition at the university level, and have developed speech and English composition courses and seminars for businesses. I am experienced in editing a wide variety of materials, especially business, scientific, and other academic papers. I am familiar with all the major style guides.
Experience I have edited any number of graduate papers and other technical materials in such advanced fields as civil and electrical engineering and semiconductor fabrication. I have extensive experience in working with non-native English speakers.
Question I'm working on a research paper for my english class, and was wondering how do you cite a quote from an online source?
Answer Exactly how you do this depends on which style guide you are using. In general, however, you should make the bibliographic entry consistent with the other entries and show the URL and when you accessed the site. The important thing is that the reader be able to find your source. But look it up in the style manual you have been assigned. All the current style guides have examples of citing online sources.
It amazes me that students try to write papers without the style guides. None of them are expensive.
