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The proficient genealogist uses Mills Style to create good citations even when using a program like Word or Excel that doesn’t have templates for genealogy sources. Mills Style is described in ''Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace''. ''Evidence Explained'' contains easy to use templates and the information necessary to adapt the templates to other situations. | The proficient genealogist uses Mills Style to create good citations even when using a program like Word or Excel that doesn’t have templates for genealogy sources. Mills Style is described in ''Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace''.<ref>Elizabeth Shown Mills, ''Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace'', 2nd ed. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2009).</ref> ''Evidence Explained'' contains easy to use templates and the information necessary to adapt the templates to other situations. | ||
Manually citing online record collections is straightforward. Webpages and online collections or databases are cited like chapters in a book. “S.o.s.” stands for “source of the source” and is the source of the collection as specified by the website. Item type is “database,” “database and digital images,” or just “digital images.” | Manually citing online record collections is straightforward. Webpages and online collections or databases are cited like chapters in a book. “S.o.s.” stands for “source of the source” and is the source of the collection as specified by the website. Item type is “database,” “database and digital images,” or just “digital images.” | ||