Web pages with author


You may need to consult more than one section of Re:cite to accurately represent the source used. Your citation may look different depending on the number of authors it has. Check the About Chicago B page for further advice.


In-text citation examples

... played an important role in the history of photographic practice (O'Hehir 2018).

OR

… centrepiece of the campus (Columbia University n.d.) is…

Reference list

Reference list template

Citations of website content are often only included in the text, however if they form a critical part of your research or are frequently cited, they may be included in your bibliography. Check with your lecturer if you are unsure.

Author Surname, Given Name. Year of publication or revision. "Title/description of the page." Title/description of the Website. Month Day (of publication, modification or access). URL.

OR

Organisational author. Year of publication or revision.“Title/description of the page.”  Title/description of the Website. Month Day (of publication, modification or access). URL.

Reference list example

O'Hehir, Anne. 2018. "The Woman Behind the Lens: Diane Arbus." Melbourne Theatre Company. September 4. https://www.mtc.com.au/discover-more/backstage/the-woman-behind-the-lens-diane-arbus/.

OR

Columbia University. n.d. "History."  Columbia University. Accessed April 16, 2018. https://www.columbia.edu/content/history.

Tips for this reference type

  • See See Manual 14.104, 13.102
  • A web page is any one of the “pages,” or subdocuments, that make up a website.
  • In-text citations and reference list entries should correlate so the references can be easily found. For instance, resources listed under the title should have a corresponding in-text citation including the title (see Manual 13.115).
  • Titles of individual pages should be in quotation marks. Titles of whole websites are capitalised in title case and unitalicised. (see 14.103 and 8.160).
  • If a website refers to themselves by their domain name (which is case sensitive), shorten and capitalise it in a logical way (e.g., www.google.com becomes Google).
  • Author-date reference list entries that include a month and day (as for a newspaper article) do not need to repeat the year with the month and day. The year of publication follows the author’s name; the month and day are placed as before the URL (14.89).
  • The year of modification would replace the publication date.  Precede the month and day of modification with 'last modified' (see 13.16).
  • If no date of publication or modification can be found, include an access date. Precede the access date with 'accessed' (see 13.15 ). Use n.d. in place of a year of publication in both in-text citations and the reference list (see 14.44 for examples).
  • To avoid conflation with the name of the author, n.d. is always lowercase, and it is preceded by a comma in text citations.
  • Frequently updated resources (e.g. live news updates) can include a time stamp if one is provided by the resource.

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