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Referencing style - Chicago: Web Sources, Blogs and Social Media

A guide to using the Chicago 18th referencing style for footnotes and reference lists.

Web Sources, Blogs and Social Media

 If a book is available in more than one format (i.e. print, ebook), cite the version you consulted.

Material type In-Text (Parenthetical text) Citation Reference List
Webpage

(Google 2024)

 

 Google. 2024. “Privacy Policy.” Privacy & Terms. Effective September 16. https://policies.google.com/privacy.
Webpage: no author or date

(Royal British Association of Architects, n.d.)

*If there is no date of publication or revision, use n.d. (for “no date”) in place of the year and include an access date.

Royal British Association of Architects. n.d. "History of the Library and collections." Accessed April 4, 2013.  http:www.architecture.com/Library DrawingsAndPhotographs/RIBALibrary/History.aspx.

 
Blog

(Mills 2025)

Mills, Paige. 2025. "Why This Artist Paints the Parts of a City You Walk Right Past." Artwork Archive (blog). July 10, 2025.
https://www.artworkarchive.com/blog/why-this-artist-paints-the-parts-of-a-city-you-walk-right-past.

* Add the word blog in brackets after the name of the blog (unless the word blog is part of the name). See 14.105 in the Chicago Manual of Style 18th edition. 
Facebook post (Díaz 2016) Díaz, Junot. 2016. “Always surprises my students when I tell them that the ‘real’ medieval was more diverse than the fake ones most of us consume,” Facebook, February 24, 2016. https://www.facebook.com/junotdiaz.writer/posts/972495572815454.

X (formerly Twitter)

 (O’Brien  2015)

O'Brien, Conan (@ConanOBrien). 2015. “In honor of Earth Day, I’m recycling my tweets,” X, April 22, 2015. https://x.com/ConanOBrien/status/590940792967016448.

*For more see Chicago Manual of Style Online, chapter 14 section 106

 

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