How to Cite texts

All of the endnotes for your project should be included on a "Notes" page which, like the annotated bibliography, should be accessible from the front page of the project site. Note numbers within the text of the project should be displayed as superscripted clickable links, like the one at the end of this sentence.¹² Clicking on a note number should take the reader directly to the appropriate citation on the "Notes" page by means of an anchored link. See the sample page provided here for an example of how this should work. An acceptable alternative to the "Notes" page is to use "pop-up" notes (full citations appearing in a small, separate window), such as those provided in the Eighteenth-Century Advertiser project.

Here are a few additional points to bear in mind in preparing citations for your web project:

• On the "Notes" page (or in your pop-up notes), the citations themselves should be formatted according to the Chicago Style. The first citation of a given work must provide full author, title, publication, and page information; subsequent citations of the same work may use an abbreviated form (do not, however, use "Ibid" or "Op. Cit.). Follow the links provided here for detailed examples of the correct form for both types of notes.
• Any reference to another website in the notes should be provided as a clickable link.
• Notes for the entire project should be numbered in one continuous sequence, as opposed to beginning again with a new #1 in each new section of the site.
• Avoid excessive note numbers by grouping adjacent citations for one source together in a single note. For example, if two or three contiguous sentences in a single paragraph all draw upon the same passage in one source, a single citation at the end of the last of these sentences will suffice.