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Chicago Citation Style: Websites and Webpages

Websites and Webpages

  • Website citations can often be limited to the notes.  A note or bibliography citation should include as many of the following elements as possible. If an element is unavailable, skip that element:
    • The author of the webpage entry, which may be one or more individuals or a group (organization or government agency). If there is no author, you can use the owner or sponsor of the website and move it to the author position. If there is no owner/sponsor information, move the title to the first position
    • The title of the website entry in headline-style and in quotation marks
    • Owner/sponsor of the site: On what website is the webpage entry located? If the author and the website name are the same, you do not need to include the site name in the citation
    • Date: the date the content was published or last updated. If it is not available, include an access date
Webpage entry: individual author
Chicago Manual Bibliography Footnote

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Author Last Name, First Name. "Title of Webpage entry." Owner or Sponsor of the Website [if different from Author]. Date of publication/last update. URL.

 

Glassford, Sarah. “Volunteering in First and Second World War.” War Time Canada. Accessed May 24, 2021, https://wartimecanada.ca/essay/volunteering/volunteering-first-and-second-world-war.

1. Author First Name Last Name, "Title of Webpage Entry", Owner or Sponsor of website [If different from Author], Date of publication/last update, URL.

 

1. Sarah Glassford, “Volunteering in the First and Second World War," War Time Canada, accessed May 24, 2021, https://wartimecanada.ca/essay/volunteering/volunteering-first-and-second-world-war.

2. Glassford, "Volunteering." 

 
Webpage entry: group, institution, organization, etc.
Chicago Manual Bibliography Footnote

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Author. "Title of Webpage entry." Owner or Sponsor of the Website [if different from Author]. Date of publication/last update. URL.

 

Kwantlen Polytechnic University. "KPU Facts." Accessed August 30, 2022. http://www.kpu.ca/about/facts.

Alliance for Linguistic Diversity. “She Shashishalhem (Sechelt).” Endangered Languages Project. Accessed November 6, 2017. http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/1527.

 

1. "Title of Webpage Entry", Owner or Sponsor of Website [If different from Author], Date of publication/last update, URL.

 

3. “KPU Facts,” Kwantlen Polytechnic University, accessed August 30, 2022, http://www.kpu.ca/about/facts.

4. " KPU Facts."

5. “She Shashishalhem (Sechelt),” Endangered Languages Project, Alliance for Linguistic Diversity, accessed November 6, 2017, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/1527.

6. “She Shashishalhem."