Note that ISO690 defines what is needed to make an electronic bibliographic citation. Note that “when available” takes precedence over “required” in what follows (i.e. if you don’t have it you can’t do it). ISO690 is expected to be used in “print”, so is a content standard, and expects things to appear in order (when available) as follows:

  • To reference a whole document (or database), use:
    • Primary responsibility (Required)
    • Title (Required)
    • Type of medium (Required)
    • Subordinate responsibility (Optional)
    • Edition (Required)
    • Place of publication (Required)
    • Publisher (Required)
    • Date of publication (Required)
    • Date of update/revision (Required)
    • Date of citation (Required for online documents; Optional for others)
    • Series (Optional)
    • Notes (Optional)
    • Availability and access (Required for online documents; Optional for others)
    • Standard number (Required)
  • To refrence a part of a document, all the above, plus
    • (after date of citation) Chapter or equivalent designation (of part) (Required)
    • Title (of part) (Required)
    • Numeration within host document (Optional)
    • Location within host document (Required)

Some examples:

Dengue [online]. Brisbane: Queensland Health, Communicable Diseases Unit,
March 2001 [cited 2001-08-20]. (Public Health Fact Sheets). Portable Document Format. 
Available from: <http://www.health.qld.gov.au/phs/cphun/8887_doc.pdf>. 

Bide, Mark. In search of the unicorn: the Digital Object Identifier from a
user perspective [online]. Revised. London: Book Industry Communication,
February 1998 [cited 9 June 1998]. Portable Document Format. Available from:
<http://www.bic.org.uk/bic/unicorn2.pdf>. ISBN 1 873671 19 9. 

U.S. ISBN Agency. The Digital World and the Ongoing Development of ISBN
[online]. New Providence, N.J.: RR Bowker, n.d. [cited 16 August 2002].
Available from: <http://www.isbn.org/
standards/home/isbn/digitalworld.asp>. 

HyperText Markup Language Home Page [online]. W3C [World Wide Web Consortium],
User Interface Domain, 25 August 2000; 08:33:10 [cited 25 August 2000].
Available from: <http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/>.