Citing Electronic Documents Citing Electronic Documents For better or for worse, the web has become such a convenient place to obtain information that citations are appearing in bibliographies and footnotes in formal writing.
Many sources have credibility problems .
This is for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that it is quite difficult to identify the author of much of the information and it is even harder to verify that the purported author actually wrote the material. The web is filled with misinformation . This is actually a corollary to the previous item. The web is incomplete . This comes as a shock to a few people.