Internet resources are used widely by students and professionals to create reports, papers or presentations. The information must be cited accurately as the information found in a book. The author shall give credits for ideas that don't belong to him/her, otherwise it constitutes plagiarism which is a serious academic offense. Citation allows the information be retrieved again.
There are certain citation rules and formats which can be found on the following resources:

http://www.apa.org/journals/webref.html -- Electronic reference formats recommended by the American Psychological Association

http://www.wilpaterson.edu/wpcpages/library/citing.htm -- Guide for citing electronic information

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html -- Citation guide by Columbia University Press

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html -- Different citation styles

http://www.cooley.edu/Courses/Cyberlaw/citation-Person.htm -- Citation of legal and non-legal electronic database information

http://web.utk.edu/~hoemann/whats.html -- Broad information on citation

 

 

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