Blog post

In-text citations

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Paraphrasing

Daly (2014) asserts that a Pennsylvanian student buys WMD ingredients …

A Pennsylvanian student has been buying WMD ingredients … (Daly, 2014).

Direct quote

Place direct quotes between double quotation marks " " and provide the paragraph number.

"A Pennsylvanian student has been buying ingredients on Amazon for a WMD … " (Daly, 2014, para. 5).

Reference list

Blog post

Template

Author. (Year, Month Day). Title. Name of blog. URL

Example

Daly, Michael. (2014, January 29). Pennsylvania student proves you could buy ingredients for a WMD on Amazon. The Daily Beast. https://www.thedailybeast.com/pennsylvania-student-proves-you-could-buy-ingredients-for-a-wmd-on-amazon

Whole blog

Template

Author. (Year). Name of blog. URL

Example

Daly, Michael. (2014). The Daily Beast. https://www.thedailybeast.com

Notes on style

  • If both an author’s real name and username are known, provide the real name of the individual (in inverted format) or group, followed by the username in square brackets. If their real name is unknown, use just their username without brackets.
  • Give the exact date of the post. Give only the year if using an entire feed or page and not a specific post.
  • Give the full URL of the post. If the item is archived, give the archived version URL (click the post’s date stamp).
  • A retrieval date is not needed for items with a specific associated date (e.g., individual tweets, posts, etc.), but is needed for whole feeds/pages because the content will change.