APA 7th edition
How to cite a academic blog post in APA 7th edition
Institutional and academic blog posts require full publication dates, blog title, and platform URLs.
THE FORMAT
A academic blog post in APA, at a glance
Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of post. Blog Name. https://example.org/post
Mollick, E. (2024, January 15). Designing classroom assignments in the age of AI. One Useful Thing. https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/designing-assignments
(Mollick, 2024)
In prose: Mollick (2024) outlines strategies for AI-resistant essay prompts.
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BEFORE YOU FORMAT
What APA needs from a academic blog post
Elements to collect
- Author name
- Full publication date (Year, Month, Day)
- Title of the blog post
- Blog or website title
- URL
Rules specific to this entry
- Give the full publication date (year, month, day).
- The post title is in sentence case and plain text; the blog name is italicized.
Building the entry, step by step
Collect the details
Before you format anything, gather every element APA needs for a academic blog post: Author name; Full publication date (Year, Month, Day); Title of the blog post; Blog or website title.
Build the references entry
Arrange those details in the APA order: Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of post. Blog Name. https://example.org/post
Add the in-text citation
In the body of your paper, cite it as (Mollick, 2024) — or work the same reference into your sentence as Mollick (2024) outlines strategies for AI-resistant essay prompts..
Check it against the exceptions
Give the full publication date (year, month, day).
APA RULES
The conventions behind every APA entry
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.) is the authority. Where a journal or department publishes its own house rules, those win — check your submission guidelines before the references is final.
The rules that apply across every source — author order, capitalization, how the references is sorted, and where APA entries most often go wrong — are collected on the APA 7th edition guide.
The same academic blog post in another style
Switching styles late in a draft is normal. Here is the same source formatted five other ways.
Questions about APA and blog posts
What if the academic blog post has no author?
Move the title into the author position and alphabetize by the first significant word of that title — ignoring an initial “A”, “An” or “The”. In the text, use a shortened form of the title where the author name would go.
What do I need before I can cite a academic blog post?
Author name, Full publication date (Year, Month, Day), Title of the blog post, and the rest of the elements listed above. Institutional and academic blog posts require full publication dates, blog title, and platform URLs.
Is there anything unusual about a academic blog post in APA?
Give the full publication date (year, month, day).
What else catches people out here?
The post title is in sentence case and plain text; the blog name is italicized.
Can I reformat this academic blog post in another style later?
By hand, you would retype the entry — the element order, punctuation and italics all differ between styles. In Copyeditor, sources are stored as structured data, so switching between APA, MLA, Chicago and IEEE reformats every citation and the whole reference list at once.
Cite it once
and never reformat it again
Copyeditor keeps sources as structured data, so switching between APA, MLA, Chicago and IEEE reformats every citation and the whole references at once.
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