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Alao, A., Soderberg, M., Pohl, E., & Lolaalao, A. (2006). Cybersuicide: Review of the role of the Internet on suicide. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 9, 489-493.

Alao, A. O., Yolles, J. C., & Armenta, W. R. (1999). Cybersuicide: The Internet and suicide. American journal of Psychiatry, 156, 1836-1837.

Baker, D., & Fortune, S. (2008). Understanding self-harm and suicide websites: A qualitative interview study of young adult website users. Crisis, 29, 118-122.

Barak, A. (2007). Emotional support and suicide prevention through the Internet: A field project report. Computers in Human Behavior, 23, 971-984.

Barak, A., & Miron, O. (2005). Writing characteristics of suicidal people on the Internet: A psychological investigation of emerging social environments. Suicide & Life - Threatening Behavior, 35, 507-524.

Baume, P. , Cantor, C,H., & Rolfe, A. (1997). Cybersuicide: The role of interactive suicide notes on the Internet. Crisis, 18, 73-79.

Beal, K. C. (2011). Parents of suicides-friends & families of suicides Internet community. In: J. R. Jordan, & J. L. McIntosh (Eds.), Grief after suicide: Understanding the consequences and caring for the survivors (pp. 381-388). New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.

Beaston, S., Hosty, G. S., & Smith, S. (2000). Suicide and the Internet. Psychiatric Bulletin, 24 (11), 434.

Becker, K., Mayer, M., Nagenborg, M., EL-Faddagh, M., & Schmidt, M. H. (2004). Parasuicide online: Can suicide websites trigger suicidal behaviour in predisposed adolescents? Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 58, 111-114.

Becker, K., & Schmidt, M. H. (2004). Internet chat rooms and suicide. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 21, 246-247.

Biddle, L., Donovan, J., Hawton, K., Kapur, N., & Gunnell, D. (2008). Suicide and the Internet. British Medical Journal, 336, 800-802.

Birbal, R., Maharajh, H. D., Birbal, R., Clapperton, M., Jarvis, J., Ragoonath, A., & Uppalapati, K. (2009). Cybersuicide and the adolescent population: Challenges of the future?  International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health, 21, 151-159.

Boyce, N. (2010). Pilots of the future: Suicide prevention and the Internet. Lancet, 367, 1889-1890.

Bronisch, T. (2004). New media and suicidality: Perils and possibilities of intervention. Archives of Suicide Research, 8, 398-399.

Cheng, Q. (2011). Online suicide-related information in Hong Kong: Perspectives from youth suicide prevention. Journal of Youth Studies, 14, 74-85.

Cheng, Q., Fu, K.-W., & Yip, P. S. F. (2011). A comparative study of online suicide-related information in Chinese ans English. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 72, 313-319.

Corkery, J. M., Button, J., Vento, A. E., & Schifano, F. (2010). Two UK suicides using nicotine extracted from tobacco employing instructions available on the Internet. Forensic Science International, 199, 9-13.

Dunlop, S. M., More, E., & Romer, D. (2011). Where do youth learn about suicides on the Internet, and what influence does this have on suicidal ideation? Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 52, p. 1073-p. 1080.

Durkee, T., Hadlaczky, G., Westerlund, M., & Carli, V. (2011). Internet pathways in suicidality: A review of the evidence. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 8, 3938-3952.

Gilat, I., & Shahar, G. (2007). Emotional first aid for a suicide crisis: comparison between telephonic hotline and Internet. Psychiatry, 70, 12-18.

Gilat, I., & Shahar, G. (2009). Suicide prevention by online support groups: An action theory-based model of emotional first aid. Archives of Suicide Research, 13, 52-63.

Gilat, I., Tobin, T., & Shahar, G. (2011). Offering support to suicidal individuals in an online support group. Archives of Suicide Research, 15, 195-206.

Greidanus, E., & Everall, R. D. (2010). Helper therapy in an online suicide prevention community. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 38, 191- 204.

Grohol, J. M. (2008). Suicide and the Internet: Study misses Internet's greater collection of support websites. British Medical Journal, 336, 905-906.

Haas, A., Koestner, B., Rosenberg, J., Moore, D., Garlow, S. J. Sedway, J., Nicholas, L., Hendin, H., Mann, J. J., & Nemeroff, C. B. (2008). An interactive web-based method of outreach to college students at risk for suicide. Journal of American College Health, 57, 15-22.

Harris, K. M., McLean, J. P., & Sheffield, J. (2009). Examining suicide-risk individuals who go online for suicide-related purposes. Archives of Suicide Research, 13, 264-276.

Hinduja, S., & Patchin, J. W. (2010). Bullying, cyberbullying, and suicide. Archives of Suicide Research, 14, 206-221.

Hitosugi, M., Nagai, T., & Tokudome, S. (2007). A voluntary effort to save the youth suicide via the Internet in Japan. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 44, 157.

Horne, J., & Wiggins, S. (2009). Doing being ‘on the edge’: Managing the dilemma of being authentically suicidal in an online forum. Sociology of Health & Illness, 31, 170-184.

Janson, M. P., Alessandrini, E. S., Strunjas, S. S., Shahab, H., El-Mallakh, R., & Lippmann, S. B. (2001). Internet-observed suicide attempts. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 62, 478.

Jorm, A. F., Fischer, J.-A. & Oh, E. (2010). Effect of feedback on the quality of suicide prevention websites: Randomised controlled trial. British Journal of Psychiatry, 197, 73-74.

Katsumata, Y., Matsumoto, T., Kitani, M., & Takeshima, T. (2008). Electronic media use and suicidal ideation in Japanese adolescents. Psychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences, 62, 744-746.

Kemp, C. G., & Collings, S. C. (2011). Hyperlinked suicide assessing the prominence and accessibility of suicide websites. Crisis, 32, 143-151.

Kim, K., Ryu, E., Chon, M. Y., Yeun, E. J., Choi, S. Y., Seo, J. S., & Nam, B. W. (2006). Internet addiction in Korean adolescents and its relation to depression and suicidal ideation: A questionnaire survey. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 43, 185-192.

Krysinska, K. E., De Leo, D. (2007). Telecommunication and suicide prevention: Hopes and challenges for the new century. Omega, 55, 237-253.

Krysinska, K., & Msuicidology, A. K. (2010). On-line support and resources for people bereaved through suicide: What is available? Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 40, 640-650.

Lester, D. (2008-2009). The use of the Internet for counseling the suicidal individual: Possibilities and drawbacks. Omega, 58, 233-250.

Lester, D. (2010). Linguistic analysis of a blog from a murder-suicide. Psychological Reports, 106, 342.

Magnet, S. (2007). Feminist sexualities, race and the Internet: An investigation of suicidegirls.com. New Media & Society, 9, 577-602.

Mandrusiak, M., Rudd, M. D., Joiner, T. E. Jr., Berman, A. L., Van Orden, K. A., & Witte, T. (2006). Warning signs for suicide on the Internet: A descriptive study. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 36, 263-271.

Mathy, R. M., & Cooper, A. (2003). The duration and frequency of Internet use in a nonclinical sample: Suicidality, behavioral problems, and treatment histories. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 40, 125-135.

McCarthy, M. J. (2010). Internet monitoring of suicide risk in the population. Journal of Affective Disorders, 122, 277-279.

Mehlum, L. (2000). The Internet, suicide, and suicide prevention. Crisis, 21, 186-188.

Merrick-Kenig, E. & Merrick, J. (2009). Cybersuicide. International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health, 21, 135-136.

Messias, E., Castro, J., Saini, A., Usman, M., & Peeples, D. (2011). Sadness, suicide, and their association with video game and Internet overuse among teens: Results from the youth risk behavior survey 2007 and 2009. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 41, 307-315.

Mishara, B. L., & Weisstub, D. N. (2007). Ethical, legal, and practical issues in the control and regulation of suicide promotion and assistance over the Internet. Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior, 37, 58-65.

Naito, A. (2007). Internet suicide in Japan: Implications for child and adolescent mental health. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 12, 583-597.

Omar, H. A. (2005). A model program for youth suicide prevention. International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health, 17, 275-278.

Ozawa-De Silva, C. (2010). Shared death: Self, sociality and Internet group suicide in Japan. Transcultural Psychiatry, 47, 392-418.

Pirkis, J., Neal, L., Dare, A., Blood, R. W., & Studdert, D. (2009). Legal bans on pro-suicide web sites: An early retrospective from Australia. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 39, 190-193.

Prior, T. I. (2004). Suicide methods from the Internet. American Journal of Psychiatry, 161, 1500-1501.

Rajagopal, S. (2005). Suicide pacts and the Internet. British Medical Journal, 19, 1298-1299.

Recupero, P. R., Harms, S. E., & Noble, J. M. (2008). Googling suicide: Surfing for suicide information on the Internet. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 69, 878-888.

Richard, J., Werth, J. L., and Rogers, J. R. (2000). Rational and assisted suicidal communication on the Internet. A case example and discussion of ethical and practice issues. Ethics and Behavior, 10, 215-238. 

Rodham, K., Gavin, J., & Miles, M. (2007). I hear I listen, and I care: A qualitative investigation into the function of a self-harm message board. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 37, 422-430.

Ruder, T. D., Hatch, G. M., Ampanozi, G., Thali, M. J., & Fischer, N. (2011). Suicide announcement on Facebook. Crisis, 32, 280-282.

Seko, Y. (2008). “Suicide machine” seekers: Transgressing suicidal taboos online. Learning Inquiry, 2, 181-199.

Shah, A. (2010). The relationship between general population suicide rates and the Internet: A cross-national study. Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior, 40, 146-150.

Shah, A. (2010). The relationship between elderly suicide rates and the Internet: A cross-national study. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 56, 214-219.

Sher, L. (2000). The Internet, suicide, and human mental functions. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 45, 297.

Silenzio, V. M. B., Duberstein, P. R., Tang, W., Lu, N., Tu, Xin., & Homan, C. M. (2009). Connecting the invisible dots: Reaching lesbian, gay, and bisexual adolescents and young adults at risk for suicide through online social networks. Social Science & Medicine, 69, 469-474.

Silva, C. O. (2008). Too lonely to die alone: Internet suicide pacts and existential suffering in Japan. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 32, 516-551.

Sisask, M., Varnik, A., & Wasserman, D. (2005). Internet comments on media reporting of two adolescents' collective suicide attempt. Archives of Suicide Research, 9, 87-98.

Stone, G. D. (2011). Contradictions in the last mile: Suicide, culture, and e-agriculture in rural India. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 36, 759-790.

Stoney, G. (1998). Suicide prevention on the Internet. In R. J. Kosky, H. S. Eshkevari (Ed.), Suicide prevention: The global context (pp. 237-244) New-York: Plenum Press.

Sueki, H. (2011). Does the volume of Internet searches using suicide-related search terms influence the suicide death rate: Data from 2004 to 2009 in Japan. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 65, 392-394.

Szumilas, M., & Kutcher, S. (2009). Teen suicide information on the Internet: A systematic analysis of quality. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 54, 596-604.

Tam, J., Tang, W. S., & Fernando, D. J. (2007). The Internet and suicide: A double-edged tool. European Journal of Internal Medicine, 18, 453-455.

Thom, K., Edwards, G., Nakarada-Kordic, I., McKenna, B., O'Brien, A., & Nairn, R. (2011). Suicide online: Portrayal of website-related suicide by the New Zealand media. New Media & Society, 13, 1355-1372.

Thompson, S. (1999). The Internet and its potential influence on suicide. Psychiatric Bulletin, 23, 449-451.

Vennemann, B., & Pollak, S. (2006). Death by hanging while watching violent pornographic videos on the Internet - suicide or accidental autoerotic death? International Journal of Legal Medicine, 120, 110-114.

Whitlock, J., Purington, A., & Gershkovich, M. (2009). Media, the Internet, and nonsuicidal self-injury. In M. K. Nock (Ed.), Understanding nonsuicidal self-injury: Origins, assessment, and treatment (pp. 139-155). Washington: American Psychological Association.

Wilson, G., & Lester, D. (1998). Suicide prevention by e-mail. Crisis Intervention, 4, 81-87.

Yang, A. C., Tsai, S.-J., Huang, N. E., & Peng, C.-K. (2011). Association of Internet search trends with suicide death in Taipei City, Taiwan, 2004–2009. Journal of Affective Disorders, 132, 179-184.