Since blogs are a type of online journal, it can be difficult to know how to cite a blog. However, there are a few steps that can be followed in order to properly credit a blog when using its content in your research.
First, it is important to understand that the author of a blog is not the same as the author of the article that is being cited. A blog post may have been written by one person, but it may also have been edited and compiled by a team of people.
In these cases, it is important to find out who wrote the original post and who edited and compiled it.
Second, when citing a blog post, you should include the author’s name, followed by “blog,” “article,” or “post.” For example, if you were citing an article from The Huffington Post written by Sarah Kliff, you would write: Sarah Kliff. “The True Cost of College.” The Huffington Post (blog), 12 Dec.
2013. Web. 15 Apr. 2016.
Finally, if you are using a quote from a blog post, it is important to identify which paragraph or section of the post the quote comes from. To do this, you will need to find the citation for the entire post and then use the part number that corresponds to the paragraph or section where the quote is located. For example, if you wanted to use a quote from an entire paragraph in an article from The Huffington Post, you would write: Sarah Kliff., para 3.