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From: gilbertd@cricket.bio.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert)
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Subject: Re: citation of on-line dbase(s)
Message-ID: <1991Jan18.215042.13735@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 18 Jan 91 21:50:42 GMT
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In article <9101181953.AA07565@genbank.bio.net> D31%TRANAVM1@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (suleyman aydin) writes:
>Question:
>Is there a standard how to cite an on-line-source (database)?
>If yes, please inform me.  If not,  has the time come for making a standard
>to cite an on-line ( somewhere else in the NETWORK or something from the
>network) source?

I don't know of a standard.  This is what I use and how I ask people to
cite my electronically published works:
   Author,..., Date.  Title.   Published 
  electronically on the Internet, available via anonymous 
  ftp to iubio.bio.indiana.edu. (or where-ever).

Don

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Don Gilbert    gilbertd@cricket.bio.indiana.edu
biocomputing office, biology dept., indiana univ., bloomington, in 47405