Because the Web (World Wide Web) is still evolving, the correct form for footnoting a page on a Web site has not yet become uniform. Currently, the most common way of footnoting a Web page is as follows.

First Reference The first time you refer to a Web site in a footnote, list all of the following information:

• Author of the Web page, if known, followed by a comma
• Name of the Web page followed by a comma, all within quotation marks
• Date on which the information was put up on the Web page, if known, followed by a comma
• The complete Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the Web site
• The date on which the Web page was accessed by the reader

FOR EXAMPLE:

1. John Kantner, "Chetro Ketl Great Kiva," n.d., <http://www.sscf.ucsb.edu/anth/projects/great.kiva/index.htmlV> (12 May 1997)

The "n.d." in the above example means that the page had "no date." You may break the URL after a slash or before a period, colon, or underscore. For extended examples and for a more complete description for listing various kinds of electronic sites and messages, see A Student's Guide to History, eighth edition, pages 129-130.