Chicago Citation Generator for Websites
The generator below is preset to Chicago (Chicago 18th edition) for a website or webpage.
Check your reference against your institution's guidelines — lecturers sometimes vary the style.
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Paste a URL, DOI, ISBN or title, or fill in the form yourself — the citation updates as you type, and you can copy it formatted, with italics and hanging indent intact, or as plain text. Under the tool you will find the Chicago rules for this source type, worked examples, and the mistakes students make most often.
The rules: Chicago format for websites
Template: Author, First Name. “Title of Page in Headline Style.” Site Name. Month Day, Year. https://www.example.com/page.
- In the bibliography, the first author is inverted (surname first); any other authors follow in normal order. Titles use headline-style capitalisation.
- Give the page’s publication or revision date in full — month, day, year — after the site name.
- Only when a page has no publication or revision date do you add an access date instead: “Accessed Month Day, Year.” before the URL.
- End with the full URL, including https://.
- This generator outputs the Chicago bibliography entry plus the author–date in-text form, (Author Year, page). In text that is (Chen 2024) — no comma between author and year.
Examples
Chen, Maya R. “How Sleep Shapes Memory Consolidation.” Neuroscience Insights. March 12, 2024. https://www.neuroscienceinsights.org/articles/sleep-memory-consolidation.
“Understanding Referencing Styles: A Beginner’s Guide.” Study Skills Online. Accessed March 3, 2026. https://www.studyskillsonline.org/guides/referencing-styles.
Patel, Arjun. “What Is Spaced Practice?” Learning Research News. January 20, 2025. https://www.learningresearchnews.org/spaced-practice-findings.
Common mistakes
- Adding an access date when the page already shows a publication date — Chicago only needs the access date when no date is published.
- Writing (Chen, 2024) with a comma — Chicago author–date citations have no comma before the year.
- Dropping https:// from the URL — that is the MLA habit, not Chicago.
- Lowercasing the page title — Chicago bibliography titles use headline-style capitalisation.
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Go deeper: read the guide how to cite a website or webpage in Chicago style.
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