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Citing the IPL

Here is the APA Style model/template that you will want to use when citing a webpage from within the Internet Public Library website.

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of modification). Title Given in Main Content Area of IPL Webpage. In Title of Section of IPL Website Given at the Top of Your Browser Window. Retrieved month day, year, from http://Web address.

Here are examples in APA Style for how to cite a webpage from within the Internet Public Library website.

Summers, Robert. (July 30, 2007). Zachary Taylor. In The Internet Public Library: POTUS. Retrieved 12/12/2007, from http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/ztaylor.html.

Irwin, Ken. (Jan. 26, 2007). Finding Art Images. In The Internet Public Library: Pathfinders. Retrieved 12/12/2007, from http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48440.

If no author given and no date of modification given…

The IPL Consortium. (n.d.) APA. In The Internet Public Library: APA. Retrieved 12/12/2007, from http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/ref73.10.00/.

To cite from the IPL homepage…

The IPL Consortium. (n.d.) The Internet Public Library. Retrieved 12/12/2007, from http://www.ipl.org.

What is the IPL?

The Internet Public Library is a public library for the world wide web.
Students from a consortium of colleges and universities with programs in information science develop and maintain the IPL!
Here are some of the partners in the IPL Consortium. A complete list is found on the IPL Consortium page.

The iSchool at Drexel Florida State University College of Information University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science Rutgers School of Communication and Information Studies

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences Syracuse University School of Information The Information School - University Of Washington

The Internet Public Library is hosted by The iSchool at Drexel, College of Information Science and Technology,
with major support from the College of Information at Florida State University.

Sponsored by Intel and Sun Microsystems
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