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Chicago Style Guide


Citing Websites

Include the name of the website as a whole as well as the title of the specific page you used. If you used several pages from the same site, just cite the home page. For publication date, use the date the page was last updated, or the copyright date if that is all that is available. The publisher/sponsoring organization may be the same as the name of the website. If the URL of the specific page you used is too long, shorten it to end at ".com," ".org," etc.

Examples: Webpages

First Note

1. Michael Salda, "The Cinderella Project," October 2005, University of Southern Mississippi, http://www.usm.edu/english/fairytales/cinderella/cinderella.html.

Subsequent Note

2. Salda, "The Cinderella Project."

Bibliography

Salda, Michael. "The Cinderella Project." October 2005. University of Southern Mississippi. http://www.usm.edu/english/fairytales/cinderella/cinderella.html.

First Note

3. "Barack Obama on Budget & Economy," September 4, 2011, On the Issues, http://www.issues2000.org/2012/Barack_Obama_Budget_+_Economy.htm#Stimulus_Package.

Subsequent Note

4. "Barack Obama on Budget & Economy."

Bibliography

"Barack Obama on Immigration." September 4, 2011. On the Issues. http://www.issues2000.org/2012/Barack_Obama_Budget_+_Economy.htm#Stimulus_Package.

Example: Full Website

First Note

5. Bahá'í Faith, last modified 2011, http://www.bahai.us/.

Subsequent Note

6. Bahá'í Faith.

Bibliography

Bahá'í Faith. Last modified 2011. http://www.bahai.us/.


If you use several pages from a single website, cite the entire website instead of the individual pages.

Example: Individual Document Posted as a Part of an Online Document Collection

First Note

7. Thomas Paine, "The American Crisis," December 23, 1776, Avalon Project, Yale Law School, http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/paine/pframe.htm.

Subsequent Note

8. Paine, "The American Crisis."

Bibliography

Paine, Thomas. "The American Crisis." December 23, 1776. Avalon Project. Yale Law School. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/paine/pframe.htm.