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Turabian Citation Style Guide 9th Edition: C. Blog Entries and Comments

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For each type of source in this guide, the general form and specific examples will be provided for both the Notes-Bibliography and the Author-Date style options of Turabian.

This information and several of the examples were drawn from A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (9th edition). Numbers in parentheses refer to specific pages in the manual.

For further information, please ask your instructor or refer to the Turabian manual.

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Blog Entries and Comments

Blog entries are cited like newspaper articles and may also be cited in the running text instead of in a note, bibliography, or reference list (i.e. "In a comment posted to The Becker-Posner Blog on February 16, 2012..."). If it is not obvious that the source is a blog post, follow the title of the blog with (blog).
 
When citing a reader's comment, do so in terms of  a shortened version of the original post, which has to also be cited in full elsewhere.  Cite the name of the commenter as it appears with any identifying information following in parentheses, followed by the date of the comment.
  
 
 
 

Notes-Bibliography Style (pp. 194-5):

General Format

Note:
Note Number. Author First Name/Initial Author Last Name, "Title of Blog Entry," Name of Blog (blog), Name of Larger Overarching Publication, Date of Blog Entry, URL.
 
Bibliographic Entry (necessary if citation is critical to your argument or frequently cited in your paper):
Author Last Name, First Name/Initial. "Title of Blog Entry." Name of Blog (blog). Name of Larger Overarching Publication, Date of Blog Entry, URL.
 
    
Reader Comment Entry:
Note Number. Commenter's Name (additional identifying information, if any), Date of Comment, comment on Original Poster's Last Name or Screen Name, "Abbreviated Title of Original Post."
 
   

Examples


Note:
5. Gary Becker, "Is Capitalism in Crisis?," The Becker-Posner Blog, February 12, 2012, https://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2012/02/is-capitalism-in-crisis-becker.html.
 

Bibliographic Entry (if necessary):
Becker, Gary. "Is Capitalism in Crisis?" The Becker-Posner Blog, February 12, 2012. https://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2012/02/is-capitalism-in-crisis-becker.html.
 
 
Reader Comment Example:
9.  TANSTAAFL, February 12, 2012, comment on Becker, "Capitalism." 

 

 

  

Author-Date Style (p. 262):

General Format

Parenthetical Citation:
(Author Last Name Year)

 

Reference List Entry:
Author Last Name, First Name/Initial. Year. "Title of Blog Entry." Name of Blog (blog). Name of Larger Overarching Publication, Additional Date Information, URL.
 
Reader Comment Entry: references to comments are only made in-text to a cited blog post.

(Commenter Name or Screen Name [additional identifying information if available/needed], Date of Comment, comment on Original Poster's Last Name or Screen Name Year of Original Post)

 

Examples

Parenthetical Entry:
(Cavett 2011)
  
Reference List Entry:
​Cavett, Dick. 2011. "Flying? Increasingly for the Birds." Opinionator (blog). New York Times, August 19. https://www.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/19/flying-increasingly-for-the-birds/.
 
       
Reader Comment Entry:
(Mr. Feel Good, February 14, 2012 comment on Becker 2012)
According to a comment by Mr. Feel Good on February 14, 2012 (Becker 2012), ...
 

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