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October 14, 2007
How to Cite a Blog
Citing Medicine, the NLD Style Guide for Authors, Editors and Publishers has some very good advice on how to cite a blog in a scholarly paper. Their advice would work as well in any field of study. They suggest the following format:
They also show several examples and make a few very important observations. The one thing I see missing is the title of the post. I think that should go after the author and before the name of the Blog. Some of their examples appear to imply this.
Via Neurophilosophy
Posted by Duane Smith at October 14, 2007 2:07 PM | Read more on Odds and Ends |
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I cited a blog once about a year ago (I can't remember which paper it was for) and put it in this format:
Feagans, C. T. (2007). A Really Cool Blog Title. In Hot Cup of Joe (Blog Post). Retrieved 14 October 2007, from http://hotcupofjoe.blogspot.comI used a bibliography application that plugs into Word called Citation and selected APA (5th ed) and used the form for a webpage. The result is nice and neat and consistent with the rest of my citations. Of course it has a hanging indent.
Posted by: cfeagans at October 14, 2007 7:28 PM
Tell me this, people. How does it really mean anything to cite (whether in a paper/book/printed work of any kind) a constantly evolving medium like the internet which, quite obviously, has constantly evolving content? Without any standard form of cyberspace archiving, are academics making a mockery of the bibliography? Without being able to verify the information cited (which is the whole fundamental point of a bibliography unless I'm missing something), printed articles become nothing more than style without substance. Or at least so it seems to me.
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Posted by: Glen Gordon at October 15, 2007 11:48 AM
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