Question

how to add online citation within your essay

Answer 1

i know how to add book citation ( author name ,page number) is it the same for online?????

Answer 2

Electronic and online sources are cited just like print resources in parenthetical references. If an online source lacks page numbers, omit numbers from the parenthetical references. If an online source includes fixed page numbers or section numbering, such as numbering of paragraphs, cite the relevant numbers.

Answer 3

Chicago Citation Format
(Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed., sections 17.270, 17.237)

Structure:

Author last name, first name, middle initial, if given. If no author, use the site owner.
Title of Site (italicized); a subsection of a larger work is in quotes.
Editor of site, if given.
Publication information, including latest update if available.
Name of sponsoring institution or organization.
Electronic address or URL.
Date of access, in parenthesis.
Last name, First name Middle initial. Title of Site. City: Publishing Company, copyright date. Sponsoring source. http://...(accessed date).

Example:
Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov (accessed January 5, 2006).
From http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/chicago.html#entirewebsite

Answer 4

So I looked a little more deeply for you. Here is the page from Purdue's OWL for citing within your essay, http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/02/
Too long to post here, I'll start it off so you go there to check it for your self.
In-Text Citation Capitalization, Quotes, and Italics/Underlining

Always capitalize proper nouns, including author names and initials: D. Jones.
If you refer to the title of a source within your paper, capitalize all words that are four letters long or greater within the title of a source: Permanence and Change. Exceptions apply to short words that are verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs: Writing New Media, There Is Nothing Left to Lose.
(Note: in your References list, only the first word of a title will be capitalized: Writing new media.)

When capitalizing titles, capitalize both words in a hyphenated compound word: Natural-Born Cyborgs.
Capitalize the first word after a dash or colon: "Defining Film Rhetoric: The Case of Hitchwingspan's Vertigo."
Italicize or underline the titles of longer works such as books, edited collections, movies, television series, documentaries, or albums: The Closing of the American Mind; The Wizard of Oz; Friends.
Put quotation marks around the titles of shorter works such as journal articles, articles from edited collections, television series episodes, and song titles: "Multimedia Narration: Constructing Possible Worlds"; "The One Where Chandler Can't Cry."