Chicago Referencing †Citing a Website (Proofread My Paper)

Chicago Referencing – Citing a Website Chicago Referencing – Citing a Website Once you get past all the lolcats and memes, the internet actually has a few useful educational resources. See? You cant get away from those feline sneaks.(Photo: Jerry7171/AmosWolfe) As such, knowing how to cite a website is vital when researching a college paper online. In this post, we look at how to do this using Chicago referencing. Citations Overview The Chicago Manual of Style suggests two ways of citing sources: parenthetical author-date citations and a notes and bibliography system. In both cases, citations of websites â€Å"can often be limited to a mention in the text.† However, since demonstrating your ability to cite sources is important in academic writing, it’s usually best to give a formal reference. Author-Date Citations With the author-date system, you should cite sources in the main text of your paper. The information required for a website is the author’s surname/authorial organization and a year of publication: Heidegger was born in Messkirch, Germany (Wheeler 2011). If no date of publication is available, the year the page was last modified or a date of access can be given. In the reference list, the information to include for a website is as follows: Author Surname, First Name. Year of Publication/Last Modification. â€Å"Page Title.† Site Name. Accessed Month Day, Year. URL. The site cited above would therefore appear in the reference list as: Wheeler, Michael. 2011. â€Å"Martin Heidegger.† Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Accessed September 8, 2016. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heidegger/. Notes and Bibliography For the notes and bibliography version of Chicago referencing, citations are given in footnotes. The first time you cite a website, the footnote should include the page’s name, publication information and the URL. If an author is named, you should give this information too: n. First Name Last Name, â€Å"Page Title,† Site Name, Publication Date and/or Date of Access, URL. Repeat citations of the same source can then be shortened to just the author surname and page title, as follows: 1. Michael Wheeler, â€Å"Martin Heidegger,† Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, October 12, 2011, accessed September 8, 2016, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heidegger/. 2. â€Å"Chapter 6: Curriculum: Philosophy – Martin Heidegger,† The Book of Life, accessed September 10, 2016, thebookoflife.org/the-great-philosophers-martin-heidegger/. 3. Wheeler, â€Å"Martin Heidegger.† 4. â€Å"Chapter 6: Curriculum: Philosophy – Martin Heidegger.† Finally, all cited sources should be added to a bibliography at the end of your document. The entry for a website here is similar to the first footnote. The only differences are the order of the authors names and the punctuation: Last Name, First Name. â€Å"Page Title.† Site Name. Publication Date and/or Date of Access. URL. If no author was listed for a page, use the site/organization name instead. You would therefore list the websites cited above as follows: The Book of Life. â€Å"Chapter 6: Curriculum: Philosophy – Martin Heidegger.† Accessed September 10, 2016. thebookoflife.org/the-great-philosophers-martin-heidegger/. Wheeler, Michael. â€Å"Martin Heidegger.† Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. October 12, 2011. Accessed September 8, 2016. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heidegger/. The information available from websites can vary, so the important thing is to provide enough detail to make the site and page used easily identifiable.