How to Cite a Website Using Turabian Footnotes
Cite your resources the correct way every time. Follow these tips to create a Turabian-style footnote for your web-based information.
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You Will Need
- Author
- Title
- Site manager
- Web address
- Date
Steps
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Step 1
List the page's author
Start the footnote by listing the page's author, if one is credited. Then add a comma.
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Step 2
List the page's title
Follow by listing the page's title in quotation marks and then add another comma.
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Find the title within the page or by looking at the bar that runs across the top of your web browser.
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Step 3
List the organization in charge of the web site
List the corporation or organization that is in charge of managing the website and follow that with a period.
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Step 4
List the web address
List the complete web address for the page you are citing.
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Step 5
List date accessed in parentheses
In parentheses, list the word "accessed" and the date that you retrieved the website.
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Step 6
Finish the footnote with a period
Finish the footnote with a period. And feel confident that your teacher or anyone else has all the information needed to trace your resources.
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In 1962, J.C.R. Licklider wrote memos describing an Intergalactic Network where anyone, anywhere could access information at any time. This idea helped spawn the creation of the internet.
