< Can anyone tell me what the accepted practice is for citing a source when it is from the internet ? How do you cite an image of an original document that is either in a book or on a website ? > The purpose of a citation is twofold - firstly to acknowledge someone else's work that you have used, and secondly to enable other researchers to refer to the same source. How you cite a source in something that you are submitting for publication depends on the publication's "house style" and many publish "instructions to authors" which specify how they wish references to appear. Googling < "instructions to authors" references > will produce lots of examples. If you are merely citing a source for your own records, then of course you are free to choose whatever style you like! My own practice for internet sources (which is accepted by a lot of scientific journals) is to give the URL and the date that it was accessed. For an original document online I would record eg "Marr. cert. Jean SMITH accessed on www.dodgyrecords.com 23 Jun 2001" and in a book "Marr. cert. Jean SMITH in Brown, J. You Don't Really Want to Know Who You Are. Camford Publishing Co. (2003)" unless an editor specified otherwise. The most important thing is to give enough information that you (or someone else) can find the source again later! Beverly Bergman Camberley UK