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Turabian Citation Style Guide 9th Edition: B. Web Page No Author

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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Web Page No Author

When using the Notes-Bibliography style, if no author information is provided for a website 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).

 

For Author-Date style, a website citation can often be limited to a mention in the text ("As of July 27, 2012, Google's Privacy Policy as been update to include..."). However, if a formal citation is desired and no author information is provided, use the examples below (p. 261).

 

Notes-Bibliography Style (p. 194):

General Format

Note:
Note Number. "Title of Article: Subtitle of Article," 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):
Title or Owner of the Website. "Title of Page." Title or Owner of the Site, Date of Publication, URL
 
 
 

Examples

Note:
8. "Google Privacy Policy," Google Privacy & Terms, last modified July 1, 2023, https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.
    
Bibliographic Entry (if necessary):
Google. "Google Privacy Policy." Google Privacy & Terms. Last modified July 1, 2023. https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.   
 
 
 

Author-Date Style (pp. 261-2):

General Format

Parenthetical Citation:
(Title or Owner of Website Year)
 
 
Reference List Entry:
Title or Owner of Website. Year. "Title of Page: Subtitle of Page." Title or Owner of Website, Additional Date Information. URL.
 
 
 

Examples

Parenthetical Entry:
(McDonald's Corporation 2011)
  
 
Reference List Entry:
McDonald's Corporation. 2011. "Toy Safety." McDonald's Canada. https://mcdonalds.ca/en/community/toysafety.aspx.  

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