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Turabian Citation Style Guide 9th Edition: A. Basic Web Page

About Citing Websites

For each type of source in this guide, the general form and specific examples will be provided for both the Notes-Bibliography and the Author-Date style options of Turabian.

This information and several of the examples were drawn from A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (9th edition). Numbers in parentheses refer to specific pages in the manual.

For further information, please ask your instructor or refer to the Turabian manual.

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Basic Web Page

When citing websites, try to include as much basic information as you can in order to identify and locate the source even if the URL changes or becomes obsolete (pp. 194; 261).

 

When using the Notes-Bibliography style, the website citation information is normally limited to the notes unless it is critical to your argument. If no author information is provided and a formal bibliography entry is desired, list the source under the title of the website or the name of the owner/sponsor (p. 194).

 

 

 

Notes-Bibliography Style (p. 194):

General Format

Note:
Note Number. Author First Name/Initial Author Last Name, "Title of Page: Subtitle of Page," Title or Owner of the Site, Date of Publication, URL.
 
 
Bibliographic Entry (necessary if citation is critical to your argument or frequently cited in your paper):
Author Last Name, First Name/Initial. "Title of Page: Subtitle of Page." Title or Owner of the Site. Date of Publication. URL.   
 
 
 

Examples

Note:
8. Susannah Brooks, "Longtime Library Director Reflects on a Career at the Crossroads," University of Wisconsin-Madison News, September 1, 2011, https://www.news.wisc.edu/19704.
 

Bibliographic Entry (if necessary):
Brooks, Susannah. "Longtime Library Director Reflects on a Career at the Crossroads." University of Wisconsin-Madison News. September 1, 2011. https://www.news.wisc.edu/19704.
 
 
 

Author-Date Style (pp. 260-1):

General Format

Parenthetical Citation:
(Author Last Name Year)
 
 
Reference List Entry:

If no date can be determined, use n.d. and include am Accessed date.  If there is no author, use the owner or sponsor of the site if appropriate.

Author Last Name, First Name/Initial. Year. "Title of Page: Subtitle of Page." Title or Owner of Site, Additional Date Information. URL.
OR
Author Last Name, First Name/Initial. n.d. "Title of Page: Subtitle of Page." Title or Owner of Site. Accessed Date accessed. URL.
OR
Owner or Sponsor of Site. Year. "Title of Page: Subtitle of Page." Title or Owner of Site, Additional Date Information. URL.
 

Examples

Parenthetical Entry:

(Brooks 2011)

  
Reference List Entry:
Brooks, Susannah, 2011. "Longtime Library Director Reflects on a Career at the Crossroads." University of Wisconsin-Madison News, September 1. https://www.news.wisc.edu/19704.
OR
Alliance for Linguistic Diversity. n.d. "Balkan Romani." Endangered Languages. Accessed June 10, 2016. https://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/5342.
OR
Google. 2016. "Privacy Policy." Privacy & Terms. Last modified March 25, 2016. https://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html.

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