An entire website (Chicago)

Note

Chicago-81

43. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park (website), National Park Service, last modified November 25, 2015, http://www.nps.gov/choh/index.htm.

Bibliography

National Park Service. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park (website). Last modified November 25, 2015. http://www.nps.gov/choh/index.htm.

Explain

  • Begin with the author, if the site has one.
  • Give the title of the site, followed by the sponsor, the date of publication or the modified (update) date, and the site’s URL.
  • Add the label "website" in parentheses after the title if necessary for clarity.
  • Do not italicize a website title unless the site is an online book or periodical or a blog.
  • If a site does not have a date of publication or a modified date, give the date you accessed the site (“accessed January 3, 2014”).

Note on breaking URLs and DOIs

  • If you must break a URL or a DOI at the end of a line, break it after a colon or a double slash or before any other mark of punctuation.
  • Do not add a hyphen.
  • Do not put a period at the end of the entry.

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