Folgerpedia:Citing Folgerpedia

While Folgerpedia is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License for distribution of its text and images, you may still wish to cite Folgerpedia. For more information and the inspiration for this citation style, please read Citing Wikipedia.

Chicago

The Chicago Manual of Style is the preferred citation style within Folgerpedia articles.

Firstname Lastname, "Article Title," Folgerpedia, accessed Month day, year, URL.

Erica Zimmer, "History of Early English Books Online," Folgerpedia, accessed July 17, 2015, http://folgerpedia.folger.edu/History_of_Early_English_Books_Online.

"Hamlet," Folgerpedia, accessed August 26, 2014, http://folgerpedia.folger.edu/Hamlet.

Note that the Chicago Manual of Style states that "Well-known reference books, such as major dictionaries and encyclopedias, are normally cited in notes rather than bibliographies."

Folgerpedia. Folger Shakespeare Library. 9 July 2014. Web. 26 Aug. 2014.

"Hamlet." Folgerpedia. Folger Shakespeare Library. 9 July 2014. Web. 26 Aug. 2014.

Be advised that MLA 7 does not require the URL for a particular article if the source can be easily located. If you so choose, the URL should be place between brackets, i.e. <>.

Folgerpedia. (2014, 9 July). DC: Folger Shakespeare Library. Retrieved August 26, 2014, from http://www.folgerpedia.folger.edu

(Folgerpedia, 2014)

Hamlet. (n.d.). In Folgerpedia. Retrieved August 26, 2014, from http://folgerpedia.folger.edu/Hamlet

("Hamlet," 2014)

Be advised that individual paragraph numbers or subheadings should also be included for specificity.