How To Cite A Blog Article/Post!

Broadcasts & Web Miscellanea - Blogs
Source List Entry - Example
Wiseman, Becky. "Friday From The Collectors - A Moment In Time." footnoteMaven. Shades Of The Departed, 11 April 2008. http://www.www.shadesofthedeparted.com/2008/04/friday-from-collectors-moment-in-time.html : 2008.
Author (Last Name First, First Name, Middle Name/Initial). “Article/Post Title.” Creator Of The Blog. Blog Name (Italics), Posting Date. URL Digital Location : Access Year.
First Full Reference Note - Example
1. Becky Wiseman, "Friday From The Collectors - A Moment In Time," footnoteMaven, Shades Of The Departed, 11 April 2008 (http://www.shadesofthedeparted.com/2008/04/
friday-from-collectors-moment-in-time.html : accessed 11 April 2008), para. 4.
Author (First Name, Middle Name/Initial, Last Name), "Article Title," Creator of Blog, Posting Date (URL Digital Location : Access Date), Specific Content if any.
Short Reference Note - Example
11. Wiseman, "Friday From The Collectors - A Moment In Time," paras. 2-4.
Author (Last Name), "Article Title," Specific Content.
If you are citing the article/post online, create a link to the post in the citation:
Wiseman, Becky. "Friday From The Collectors - A Moment In Time." footnoteMaven. Shades Of The Departed, 11 April 2008. http://www.shadesofthedeparted.com/2008/04/
friday-from-collectors-moment-in-time.html : 2008.
Information contained in this color, including punctuation is part of the citation and may be used as a template. Information contained in black is explanatory only.
Cite this article as:
Source List Entry
footnoteMaven. "How To Cite A Blog Article/Post." footnoteMaven, 8 July 2011. http://www.footnotemaven.com/2011/07/how-to-cite-blog-articlepost.html : 2011.
2 Comments:
Excellent, useful post. Thanks to Randy Seaver for directing me here. I will pass this one along, to all my writing friends. Thanks, again. Education continues! ;-)
Hello Dr. B - must live up to my name every so often. -fM
I think we need a Genealogy Bloggers Style Manual for online resources. Held online so it could be easily updated. We should look into that!
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