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Citing Sources, With Link to Chicago, DO NOT USE: Citing websites, online videos, blog posts, and tweets

Lisa's Citing Sources with expanded Chicago

General Tips

Citing websites and online resources:

  • You can skip any elements that your web site lacks. Exceptions: If there is no date, write n.d. If there is no Publisher or Place of publication, write n.p. Otherwise, skip the element.
  • URLs are optional in citations. At your option, you may choose to include a URL for the page by enclosing them in <angle brackets> at the end of the citation (after date of access) along with a period. Example: 7 May 2009 <http:www.mla.org>.
  • If a URL must be divided between two lines, break it only after a slash. Do not add a hyphen.

Examples

General Format for Web Sites

Author(s). “Title of the Page.” Title of the Web Site. Publisher or Sponsor. Date of

publication. Web. Date you accessed it.


Examples

Items in green indicate variations in the citation based on the format.

Web site

Strong, Michael. “Forget the World Bank, Try Wal-Mart.” TCS Daily. Tech Central Station. 22 Aug.

2006. Web. 1 Apr. 2009.

Web site with URL included

Garber, Steve. “Introduction.” NASA Apollo 11 30th Anniversary. National Aeronautics and Space

Administration. 20 Sept. 2002. Web. 20 July 2009. <http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/

introduction.htm>.

Website with no author

“Parenting Corner Q&A: Immunizations.” American Academy of Pediatrics. Amer. Acad. of Pediatrics,

Feb. 2009. Web. 4 June 2009.

Website with no date

Mazer, Cary M. Bernard Shaw: A Brief Biography. Dept. of English, U of Pennsylvania, n.d. Web.

16 Sept. 2007.

Online newspaper article

Schiesel, Seth. "CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK; Nintendo’s Coming Game System, Wii U." The New

York Times. The New York Times, 07 June 2012. Web. 06 June 2012.

Online book

Krensky, Beth, and Seana Lowe. Steffen. Engaging Classrooms and Communities through

Art: A Guide to Designing and Implementing Community-based Art Education. Lanham:

Altamira, 2009. Google Books. Web. 16 Nov. 2011.

Online video

jdtravers (John Travers). "iPad in Schools". YouTube. 10 June. 2010. Web. 06 June 2012.

Blog entry

Nielson, Lisa. "Parents Don’t Look the Other Way." The Innovative Educator. 27 May 2012.

Web. 6 June 2012.

Tweet

Athar, Sohaib (ReallyVirtual). “Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event).”

1 May 2011, 3:58 p.m. Tweet.