A student asked me yesterday how to cite internet sources like websites in scientific publications. Considered as common style is the Columbia Guide to Online Style, also known as MLA-Style. A detailed article about this problem is also available in german from Thomas Christoph Marx: Zur Problematik des Zitierens aus dem Internet.. I have to add two important ideas to that topic. First of all: internet pages are fluctuant. Pages may not only vary in time, but also according to your browser or even your IP-Adress. So it makes no sense to add too much of information to your quotation, because the content may be different even from IP to IP. Even if you name your IP in the quotation, other people may not be able to get the same content at the same time. Thats sad but true. [Show more information about that.] Last year I wrote a german article about this fact, which was strongly discussed by my readers, and I posted also a english overview about the topic and the comments from my readers. And secondly, I strongly recommend to use a date format like "10 Feb 2004", because by using only numbers ("10.2.2004") the reader will not know which is month and which is day, as the positions vary from country to country.

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