Chicago Manual of Style
Bibliographic Citations - Basic citation components and punctuation:
Author's Last Name, First Name < author's internet address, if appropriate >. "Title of Work" or "title line of message." In "Title of Complete Work" or title of list/site as appropriate. < internet address >. [menu path, if appropriate]. Date, if available. Archived at: if appropriate.
Bibliographic Citations - World Wide Web example:
Limb, Peter. "Alliance Strengthened or Diminished?: Relationships between Labour & African Nationalist/Liberation Movements in Southern Africa." < http://neal.ctstateu.edu/history/world_history/archives/limb-l.html >. May 1992.
Footnote and Endnote Citations - Basic citation components and punctuation:
note number. Author's First name and Last name, < author's internet address, if available >, "Title of Work" or "title line of message," in "Title of Complete Work" or title of list/site as appropriate, < internet address >, [menu path, if appropriate], date if available, archived at if appropriate.
Footnote and Endnote Citations - World Wide Web example:
4. Peter Limb, "Relationships between Labour & African Nationalist/Liberation Movements in Southern Africa," < http://neal.ctstateu.edu/history/world_history/archives/limb-l.html >, May 1992.
Turabian Style |
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World Wide Web sites - basic components:
Author,
Title in Italics [format and medium] (Place: Publisher, date of publication, date of access); available from http:// followed by URL; Internet.
World Wide Web sites - example:
William H. Mitchell,
City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn [book on-line] (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995, accessed 29 September 1995); available from http://www.mitpress.mit.edu:80/City_of_Bits/Pulling_Glass/index.html; Internet.
Periodical Articles from Electronic Databases - basic components:
Author, "Title of Article in Quotes,"
Title of Periodical in Italics, date of article, edition or volume and issue number, page number,
name of Database in Italics [medium], producer, date of publication.
Periodical Articles from Electronic Databases - example:
Robin Toner, "Senate Approves Welfare Plan That Would End Aid Guarantee,"
New York Times, 20 September 1995, national ed., A1,
New York Times Ondisc [CD-ROM], UMI-Proquest, December 1995.
Other Online Sources - basic components:
Author,
Title of Document in Italics (Place: Publisher, date) [format and medium]; available from followed by vendor name, name of file, item identifier number, if any.
Other Online Sources - example:
Flax, Rosabel,
Guidelines for Teaching Mathematics K-12 (Topeka: Kansas State Department of Education, 1979) [database on-line]; available from Dialog, ERIC, ED 178312.
Resources for Further Information |
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Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities
Provides examples and models itself after the basic principles of the Turabian style manual (Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations).
Examples of Turabian Style:
Citing Electronic Information in History Papers
Very detailed guide, adapted from the Li & Crane book, Turabian and many other sources, as well as the author's (from the University of Memphis History Dept.) own ideas.
Other style guides:
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