THE ALMY LIBRARY
GUIDE TO CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE CITATIONS
models for citing a blog post
Footnote
Firstname Lastname, “Title of Blog Entry,” Title of Blog (blog), Publication Date, URL.
Bibliography
Lastname, Firstname. “Title of Blog Entry.” Title of Blog (blog). Publication Date. Accessed Date and
Year. URL.
Note
If your teacher allows or prefers, blog entries may be cited in running text (“In an entry posted to The Becker-Posner Blog on February 23, 2010, . . .”) and must be cited in a footnote. Add the word "blog" in parentheses, unless the word "blog" is part of the title. The access date is added before the URL.
examples for citing a blog post
Footnote
1 Buffy Hamilton, “Turn, Turn, Turn (To Everything There Is a Season),” The Unquiet Librarian
(blog), July 19, 2013, accessed October 24, 2017, https://www.theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/2013/ 07/19/turn-turn-turn-to-everything-there-is-a-season/.
2 Hamilton, “Turn, Turn, Turn.”
Bibliography
Hamilton Buffy. “Turn, Turn, Turn (To Everything There Is a Season),” The Unquiet Librarian (blog).
July 19, 2013. Accessed October 24, 2017. https://www.theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/
2013/ 07/19/turn-turn-turn-to-everything-there-is-a-season/.