"But I also felt how unfair that was, for my fellow pupils spoke together differently from Fräulein Vogler"1.
ISO norm 690 was updated to allow also prescribe the way references to text on electronic support are indicated.
First of all we must be acquainted with the terms specifically concerning electronic documents. Here they are.
Bulletin board [bacheca elettronica; babillard électronique]: computer system that distributes information and messages on given subjects to users connected to the internet.
Database [banca dati; base de données]: collection of data stored in an electronic form and made accessible from the computer.
Electronic document [documento elettronico; document électronique]: a document existing in electronic form and accessible through computer technology.
Host document [documento ospite; document hôte]: a document containing contributions or distinguishable components that however aren't independent from a physical or bibliographic point of view.
File [file; fichier]: an organized collection of data, usually containing interrelated records.
Discussion list [forum di discussione; forum de discussion]: Discussion group on a given subject involving subscribers to an electronic mailing list in which each participant's contribution is automatically sent to all other subscribers.
Computer program [programma informatico; programme informatique]: plan or agenda specifying a set of action in a way so as for a computer to be able to execute them.
Record [registrazione; enregistrement]: group of data usually considered as a unit; subset of file.
Electronic message system [sistema di comunicazione telematica; système de communication électronique]: system transmitting messages in an electronic form through local-area or wide-area networks.
Order of the elements: Here is a complete list of the elements, the optional ones included, that must be listed in the order in which they are listed here.
For electronic monographs, databases and computer programs:
Surname, name of the author, or in any case primary responsibility (mandatory)
Title in italics (mandatory)
Type of medium (mandatory)
Secondary responsibility (optional) prefaces, translations, edition number etc.
Edition (mandatory)
Place of publication (mandatory)
Publisher (mandatory)
Publication date (mandatory)
Updating/reviewing date (mandatory)
Quotation date (mandatory for online documents, optional for the others)
Series (optional)
Notes (optional)
Availability and access (mandatory for online documents, optional for the others)
Standard Number (mandatory) ISBN or ISSN according to the type of publication. Not all electronic documents are assigned an ISBN or ISSN.
Example:
OSIMO, Bruno. Translation course [online]. [Modena, Italia]: Logos, January 2000 [quoted December 2003]. Available from world wide web: http://courses.logos.it/plscourses/linguistic_resources.traduzione?lang=en>
Parts of electronic monographs, databases or computer programs:
Surname, name of the author, or in any case primary responsibility for the host document (mandatory)
Title in italics of the host document (mandatory)
Type of medium (mandatory)
Secondary responsibility for the host document (optional): prefaces, translations, edition number etc.
Edition (mandatory)
Place of publication (mandatory)
Publisher (mandatory)
Publication date (mandatory)
Updating/reviewing date (mandatory)
Quotation date (mandatory for online documents, optional for the others)
Chapter or analogous designation of the quoted part (mandatory)
Title in italics of the quoted part (mandatory)
Numbering within the host document (optional)
Place within the host document (mandatory)
Notes (optional)
Availability and access (mandatory for online documents, optional for the others)
Standard Number (mandatory) ISBN or ISSN according to the type of publication. Not all electronic documents are assigned an ISBN or ISSN.
Example:
OSIMO, Bruno. Translation course [online]. [Modena, Italia]: Logos, 2000-2003 [quoted December 2003]. Second part, The perception of the prototext, Available from the world wide web: http://courses.logos.it/plscourses/linguistic_resources.traduzione?lang=en>
Contributions to electronic monographs, databases or computer programs:
Surname, name of the author, or in any case primary responsibility for the contribution (mandatory)
Title in italics of the contribution (mandatory)
Surname, name of the author, or in any case primary responsibility for the host document (mandatory)
Title in italics of the host document (mandatory)
Type of medium (mandatory)
Edition (mandatory)
Place of publication (mandatory)
Publisher (mandatory)
Publication date (mandatory)
Updating/reviewing date (mandatory)
Quotation date (mandatory for online documents, optional for the others)
Numbering within the host document (optional)
Place within the host document (mandatory)
Notes (optional)
Availability and access (mandatory for online documents, optional for the others)
Standard Number (mandatory) ISBN or ISSN according to the type of publication. Not all electronic documents are assigned an ISBN or ISSN.
Electronic periodicals:
Title in italics of the periodical (mandatory)
Type of medium (mandatory)
Edition (mandatory)
Place of publication (mandatory)
Publisher (mandatory)
Publication date (mandatory)
Quotation date (mandatory for online documents, optional for the others)
Series (optional)
Notes (optional)
Availability and access (mandatory for online documents, optional for the others)
International Standard Serial Number [ISSN] (mandatory)
Articles and other contributions on electronic periodicals:
Primary responsibility for the contribution (mandatory)
Title in italics of the contribution (mandatory)
Title in italics of the periodical (mandatory)
Type of medium (mandatory)
Edition (mandatory)
Name or designation of the issue of the periodical (mandatory)
Updating/reviewing date (mandatory)
Quotation date (mandatory for online documents, optional for the others)
Place within the host document (mandatory)
Notes (optional)
Availability and access (mandatory for online documents, optional for the others)
International Standard Serial Number [ISSN] (mandatory)
Electronic bulletin boards, discussion lists and electronic messages:
Title in italics (mandatory)
Type of medium (mandatory)
Place of publication (mandatory)
Publisher (mandatory)
Publication date (mandatory)
Quotation date (mandatory for online documents, optional for the others)
Notes (optional)
Availability and access (mandatory for online documents, optional for the others)
Electronic messages:
Primary responsibility for the message (mandatory)
Title of the message (mandatory)
Title of the host messaging system in italics (mandatory)
Type of medium (mandatory)
Secondary responsibility/recipients (optional):
Place of publication (mandatory)
Publisher (mandatory)
Publication date (mandatory) (for personal communications, indicate the date in which the message was sent)
Quotation date (mandatory for online documents, optional for the others)
Numbering within the host messaging system (optional)
Location within the host messaging system (optional)
Notes (optional)
Availability and access (mandatory for online documents, optional for the others)
Example:
Bibliographical references
CANETTI ELIAS Die gerettete Zunge. - Die Fackel im Ohr. - Das Augenspiel, München, Carl Hanser Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-446-18062-1.
CANETTI ELIAS The Tongue Set Free. Remembrance of a European Childhood, translated by Joachim Neugroschel, in The Memoirs of Elias Canetti, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999, ISBN 0-374-19950-7, p. 1-286.
INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ORGANIZATION, norm 690.
1 Canetti 1999: 148.
