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Chicago Style: Web Pages or Websites

Include as much of the following as can be determined:

  • the title or description of the specific page (if cited);
  • the title or description of the site as a whole;
  • the owner or sponsor of the site;
  • a URL;
  • a publication date or date of revision or modification; if no such date can be determined, include an access date.

“Citations of website content can often be limited to the notes” (CMOS 14.207). In other words, it is usually not necessary to include cited websites in your bibliography.

Footnotes or endnotes

1. "Average Satisfaction with Life and with Selected Domains of Life by Age Group and Sex, Canada, Provinces and Regions," Statistics Canada, date modified December 22, 2017, http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a26?lang=eng&retrLang=eng&id=1210003&&pattern=&stByVal=1&p1=1&p2=-1&tabMode=dataTable&csid=.

2. “Average Satisfaction.”

3. “Notes and Bibliography: Sample Citations.” The Chicago Manual of Style Online, University of Chicago, accessed May 28, 2018, http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html.

4. "Notes and Bibliography."