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How to Cite This Site

This page shows you how to cite our website pages in the style typically used by Humanities disciplines. Your teacher may want you to use a different style.

Footnotes

The general format for footnoting a World Wide Website is:

Author’s name (if known), "title of document or page (if applicable) in quotation marks", title of website in italics or underlined if you can’t use italics, date of publication or last revision if known, otherwise use "n.d.", (date of access in parentheses).

Here are some examples:

1. Citing Original Website Text

Ruth Sandwell and John Lutz, "The Murder", Who Killed William Robinson?, 02 January 2004, (15 March 2005).

For subsequent citations of the same source, you can use an abbreviated form:

Sandwell and Lutz, "The Murder".

2. Citing a Copy of a Previously Published Document

"Cowichan Settlers," British Colonist, (18 July 1859), in Who Killed William Robinson? by Ruth Sandwell and John Lutz, 02 January 2004, (15 March 2005).

For subsequent citations of the same source, you can use an abbreviated form:

"Cowichan Settlers," British Colonist.

3. Citing a Copy of an Unpublished Document

George Blair, "Diary", in Who Killed William Robinson? by Ruth Sandwell and John Lutz, 02 January 2004, (15 March 2005).

For subsequent citations of the same source, you can use an abbreviated form:

Blair, "Diary".

Note: To find the date on which the website was last revised, please see the "About Us" tab on the website.

Bibliography

If you want to create a bibliography, you only need to do a few things:

  1. Invert the order of the first author’s name, e.g., Sandwell, Ruth.
  2. Put the list in alphabetical order.
  3. Separate the elements of the entry with periods instead of commas.
  4. Put the first line of each entry flush with the left margin, and indent subsequent lines five spaces.

Here is what it would look like using our previous examples:

Blair, George."Diary". In Who Killed William Robinson? by Ruth Sandwell
and John Lutz. 02 January 2004. (15 March 2005).

"Cowichan Settlers." British Colonist (18 July 1859). In Who Killed William
Robinson? by Ruth Sandwell and John Lutz.
02 January 2004. (15 March 2005).

Sandwell, Ruth and John Lutz. "The Murder". Who Killed William Robinson?
02 January 2004. (15 March 2005).