The way to create a bibliographic reference to a contribution in an online anthology is presented using a slightly complicated example, albeit one often encountered. We face here a situation when we have found publications to a given topic in the Springer Link database, and among them there was a link to a page with a contribution in an online anthology.
Although the website contains information on the authors, title, etc. (see the bottom left figure marked with an arrow), the primary document for us is the contribution in the anthology itself. In this case the webpage has two buttons, the first of which Download Book refers to the full text of the whole anthology and the second Download Chapter to the full text of the contribution we found.
Despite intending to create a bibliographic reference for the contribution, we chose the link to the whole anthology, because this will contain the majority of information on both the anthology and the contribution. Moreover, this allows readers to identify the cited contribution when they display it in the whole anthology and they would be able to make sure that this is really the document they were looking for.At this moment we can note for the prepared bibliographic reference the type of the document, accessed date and the URL of the contribution, which we obtained by right-clicking on Download Book, i.e. we are not going to use the URL that is displayed in the address bar of the web browser, but rather the one that refers to the whole anthology in the PDF file.
We were able to obtain the following information for the bibliographic reference:
the type of the document: [Internet]
accessed date of the document: [cited 2014 Jul 1]
URL: http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fb135594.pdf
The further steps were similar as when creating the bibliographic reference to an online book chapter, i.e. first we took details from the contribution itself (e.g. we copied the title from the given contribution, not from the contents of the anthology), and only afterwards from the title page of the anthology and from the back of the title page.
Gat-Viks, I, Tanay A, Raijman D, Shamir R. The factor graph network model for biological systems. In: Miyano S, Me- sirov J, Kasif S, Istrail S, Pevzner P, Waterman M, editors. Research in computational molecular biology [Internet]. RECOMB 2005: 9th Annual International Conference; 2005 May 14-18; Cambridge, MA, USA. Berlin: Springer; c2005 [cited 2014 Jul 1]. p. 31-47. Available from: http:// link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fb135594.pdf
Because the NLM style provides primarily a universal model for contributions in an online anthology we had to search for a model concerning the contribution in an online anthology from a conference without editors. The resulting citation was therefore created firstly according to the primary model (upper figure), and secondly information about the conference was inserted between the title and the place of publication according to the second model (bottom figure).