Throughout your paper, as you rely on the work of others, you should make attributions. To do otherwise is plagiarism. Cite your sources parenthetically in the body of your work.
For example, let's say that, through your reading, you learn that train travel enabled "artists" with unusual talents--say, the ability to juggle cats--to parlay their talents into lucrative careers. You write:
By making transportation faster and cheaper, trains transformed the popular stage into the road show (Toll, 1982: 5). Notice, however, that television reverses the direction of this transformation. The cat juggler becomes a walk-on, one-time "guest" on The David Letterman Show. His act is reduced to the level of "stupid pet trick."
You've clearly indicated that the idea about trains comes from Toll--your words synthesize his original observation--while the business about television is wholly yours, even though it needed Toll as a midwife to give it birth.
Supply a "References" section at the end of your work --where you write a complete citation for Toll's book--and if this were a paper document, you'd be done.
Toll, Robert C. (1982) The Entertainment Machine: American Show Business in the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford UP.
An electronic document affords more options.
When you create a parenthetical citation, you can also make it a link that allows readers to jump directly to the "References" section at the end of your paper. Here's our earlier example, now hyperlinked:
By making transportation faster and cheaper, trains transformed the popular stage into the road show (Toll, 1982: 5). Notice, however, that television reverses the direction of this transformation. The cat juggler becomes a walk-on, one-time "guest" on The David Letterman Show. His act is reduced to the level of "stupid pet trick."
Click on "Toll" to see if this link works, to see if it takes you to the bottom of this page. To discover how it is made, click on Netscape's "View" command. Then, while in the "View" menu, click on "Source." You'll be able to examine the tags that allow readers to jump from the Toll citation to the Toll Reference. Consider using this sort of link in your own paper. But whatever you do, cite your sources parenthetically and provide a References or Works Cited section.
If you discover information on the W3 that you want to use in your paper, there's no need to repeat this information in your own work. And you don't need to cite it in your References section either. Instead, you should create a direct link to the source of this information; allow the reader to visit this site.
Which is to say, attributions in hypertexts either tell readers where you found your information (if that information is not on the W3), or they actually link readers to the information.
Toll, Robert C. (1982) The Entertainment Machine: American Show Business in the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford UP.