Chicago Style for Citing from Online Databases

An E-Book:

Humanities Style:

Hoyes, Kevin J. Poe and the Printed Word. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
     http://www.netlibrary.com/ (accessed December 4, 2003).

Author-Date Style:

Hoyes, Kevin J. 2000. Poe and the Printed Word. New York: Cambridge University Press.
     http://www.netlibrary.com/ (accessed December 4, 2003).

Article from a Reference Book:

Humanities Style:

Cherath, Lata. "Lung Cancer," in Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 1812. Detroit: Gale Research, 1999.
      http://infotrac.galegroup.com/ (accessed December 4, 2003).

Author-Date Style:

Pamphlet:

Humanities Style:

Centers for Disease Control. Skin Cancer: Preventing America's Most Common Cancer. Atlanta:
     Centers for Disease Control, 2001. http://infotrac.galegroup.com/ (accessed December 5, 2003).

Centers for Disease Control. 2001. Skin cancer: Preventing America's most common cancer. Atlanta:
     Centers for Disease Control. http://infotrac.galegroup.com/ (accessed December 5, 2003).

Magazine articles:

Monthly Magazine in Humanities Style:

Kunzig, Robert and Shanti Menon. "Not Our Mom: Neanderthal DNA Suggests No Relation to Humans."
     Discover. January 1998, 32-34. http://infotrac.galegroup.com/ (accessed December 5, 2003).

Monthly Magazine in Author-Date Style:

Kunzig, Robert and Shanti Menon. 1998. Not our mom: Neanderthal DNA suggests no relation to humans.
      Discover, January, 32-34. http://infotrac.galegroup.com/ (accessed December 4, 2003).

Weekly Magazine in Humanities Style:

Pedersen, Daniel. "The Sub Finally Rises: After 136 Years, a Civil War Mystery May Be Solved."
     Newsweek, August 21 2000, 61. http://infotrac.galegroup.com/ (accessed December 5, 2003).

Weekly Magazine in Author-Date Style:

Pedersen, Daniel. 2000. The sub finally rises: After 136 years, a civil war mystery may be solved.
     Newsweek, August 21, 61. http://infotrac.galegroup.com/ (accessed December 5, 2003).

Journal Articles:

Humanities Style:

Greenberg, Kenneth S. "Representation and the Isolation of South Carolina, 1776-1860".
     The Journal of American History 64, no. 3 (December 1977): 723-743. http:www.jstor.org/
     (accessed December 4, 2003).

Greenberg, Kenneth S. 1977. Representation and the isolation of South Carolina, 1776-1860.
     The Journal of American History 64, no. 3 (December): 723-743. http://www.jstor.org/
     (accessed December 4, 2003).

Humanities Style:

Holdich, C.E., R.D. Holdich, and P.W.H. Chung. "Assessing Aspects of Children's Written Grammar:
     Automating the Process." Computers & Education 39, no. 1 (August 2002): 37-50.
     http://www.sciencedirect.com/ (accessed December 4, 2003).

Author-Date Style:

Holdich, C.E., R.D. Holdich, and P.W.H. Chung. Assessing aspects of children's written grammar:
     automating the process. Computers & Education 39, no. 1 (August): 37-50.
     http://www.sciencedirect.com/ (accessed December 4, 2003).

Newspaper Articles:

Humanities Style:

Matthews, Jay. "No Child Left Behind Act: Facts and Fiction." The Washington Post,
      November 11, 2003. http://infoweb.newsbank.com/ (accessed December 8, 2003).

To do a Chicago-style citation, start with the format of the original material, whether it is a book, magazine article, journal, etc. In the second half of the citation give the URL to the home page of the index and the date you accessed the material.

Additional information on Chicago style is found in the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, Ready Reference:: Z253 C57 2003. In particular, look at section 17.359, or at the official Chicago Manual of Style site.