Citing Internet Sources using Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed., 2003)

 

 

BASIC FORMAT:  Bibliography                  “…cite the form consulted” {17.8:644}

 

Except for the addition of a URL, the form of citation to an online periodical

is the same as that recommended for printed periodicals. {17.148:687}

 

 

 The following information may be necessary for your citation in a bibliography: {17.149:687}

1. Author’s or authors’ names. (if no author, start with title)

2. Title and subtitle of article or column, in quotations

3. Title of source/journal, italicized

4. Issue information: volume, issue number, date, etc.

5. Page reference (where appropriate)

6. For online periodicals, a URL (add access date for time-senstive data)

 

EXAMPLES:

    


Journal Article in Database  {17.154:688}

Liao, Wyn. “Antarctica.” Futurist 46, no. 1 (Jan.-Feb. 2002): 15-20, http://www.epnet.com.

 

Legal Citations    {17:275:728}

Jet v. Jet, 724 So. 2d 458, 465 (Miss. Ct. App. 1998). http://lexis-nexis.com. (accessed May 3, 2004).

 

Online Magazines  {17.187:699}

Jet, Joe. “Olden Day.” Interview with Jill Rosen.  Time, March 14, 2001. http://www.epnet.com.

 

Newspaper Article in Database {17.188:700}

Smith, Joe. “Vets.” Times (London), May 7, 2000, national edition, sec. 1. http://www.epnet.com.

 

Online Book Chapter    {17.142:684}

Smith, Joe. “Seventh Generation.” In Smith Family Genealogy, ed. J. Sirosh. Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry Publications, 1999. http://ancestry.com/smith.htm. (accessed May 2, 2005).

 

Personal Communications and Unpublished Data  (rarely in bibliographies)  {17.204:706}

Conlon, Constance. E-mail message to Robert F. Smith, April 17, 2005.

 

Personal Web Page  (Web page with no title)

Jet, Joe. “Homepage.” 2000. http://www.wsu.edu/~jet/myfamily.html. (accessed April 10, 2002).

 

Public Documents Online  {17:356:752}

U.S. Census Bureau. “Health Insurance Coverage Status and Type of Coverage by Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin, 1987 to 1999.” Health Insurance Historical Table 1, 2000. http://www.census.gov/hhes/hlthins/historic/hihistt1.html (accessed July 12, 2001).

 

Web Site   {17.237:714}

Ellison, Jim. "Assessing the accessibility of fifty United States government Web pages: Using Bobby to check on Uncle Sam." First Monday, volume 9, number 7 (July 2004). http://www.firstmonday.org (accessed June 16, 2005).

 

 

17.143:685: “Note that it is not sufficient simply to provide the URL; as far as they can be determined, the full facts of publication should be recorded. The URL is the fastest way to get a reader to the source; it is also the most vulnerable element of a citation.”

 

17.2:643: “If no model can be found, an inventive solution is quite acceptable as long as readers understand what is being cited and how they might track it down.”

 

 

The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.