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Chicago Notes & Bibliography Style: Web Documents

Web Documents

Last Name, First Name. "Title of Document." Title of Website*. Owner or Sponsor of the Website. Date of Publication or Date of Revision or Modification.** http://xxxxxx.

Last Name, First Name. "Title of Document." Title of Website*. Owner or Sponsor of the Website. Accessed Month Day, Year.** http://xxxxxx.

 

Example

Smith, Nicholas J.J. "Time Travel." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford University. March 23, 2018. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time-travel/.

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*The title of a website is set in italics only if and when the online work has a corresponding print version.

**Access dates are of limited use. Include an access date only if strictly necessary and if the online document has no publication date.

Example

Connor, Sheila. "Historical Background." Garden and Forest. Library of Congress. Accessed July 25, 2009. https://www.loc.gov/preservation/about/prd/gardfor/essays/connor.html.

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Blogs

Last Name, First Name. "Title of Post." Title of Blog*. Date of Post. http://xxxxxx.

Last Name, First Name, ed. Title of Blog*. http://xxxxxx.

*If the title of the blog does not contain the word blog, it can be added after it in parenthesis.

 

Examples

Reynolds, Simon. "S.f and rock." Blissblog. June 8, 2018. http://blissout.blogspot.com/2018/06/sf-and-rock.html.

Fisher, Mark. "The Shining and The Eerie." K-Punk (blog). February 7, 2014. https://k-punk.org/the-shining-and-the-eerie/.

Harper, Adam, ed. Rouge's Foam: Excessive Aesthetics (blog). http://rougesfoam.blogspot.com/.

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Social Media

Last Name, First Name.* "Text of Post (up to 160 characters)." Type of Post**. Date of Post. http://xxxxxx.

Last Name, First Name (@screenname).* "Text of Post (up to 160 characters)." Type of Post**. Date of Post. http://xxxxxx.

*A real name precedes a screen name when both are known.

**It includes name of social media service, and description when relevant; descriptions can be: photo, video, etc.

 

Examples

Mapes, Kristen (@kmapesy). "Feminist Medieval Digital Humanities - my (brief) talk at #imc2017 http://www.kristenmapes.com/feministmedievaldh2017/ … #medievaltwitter (ICYMI)." Twitter. July 11, 2017. https://twitter.com/kmapesy/status/884826557352640512.

darkthroneofficial. "Last day of recording... #Darkthrone #Newalbum." Instagram photo. November 28, 2018. https://www.instagram.com/p/BquVgoJFsj0/.

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