How to Cite

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If you are using material found here in a scholarly work, refer to your favorite citation guide.  Almost all of them have instructions for how to cite blogs and websites.  To help you along, I’ve posted a few examples below:

From CHICAGO/Turabian:

Blog posts and comments are usually left out of the bibliography but you should “cite in running text (“In a comment posted to The Becker-Posner Blog on February 23, 2010, . . .”)” or more formally in a note:

1. Jessica Marie Johnson, Month Day, Year of Post (H:MM p.m.), comment on Jessica Marie Johnson, “Post Title,” Diaspora Hypertext, the Blog, Month Day, Year of Post, URL.
2. Jessica Marie Johnson, “Post Title,” Diaspora Hypertext, the Blog, Month Day, Year of Post, URL.
3. Johnson, comment on Johnson, “Post Title.”
In a bibliography:
Diaspora Hypertext, the Blog. http://diasporahypertext.wordpress.com.

 

MLA FORMAT

Johnson, Jessica Marie, “Title of individual blog entry.” Diaspora Hypertext, the Blog. DD MM YYYY. Web. Date accessed (URL).

 

APA FORMAT

Diaspora Hypertext. (YYYY, MM DD). Title of Post [Blog post]. URL.

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