Chicago 17th edition (notes–bibliography)
How to cite a academic blog post in Chicago 17th edition (notes–bibliography)
Institutional and academic blog posts require full publication dates, blog title, and platform URLs.
THE FORMAT
A academic blog post in Chicago, at a glance
Last, First. “Title of Post.” Blog Name (blog), Month Day, Year. URL.
Stoller, Matt. “Antitrust Enforcement and Digital Monopolies.” BIG Newsletter (blog), September 12, 2023. https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/antitrust-monopolies.
1. Matt Stoller, “Antitrust Enforcement and Digital Monopolies,” BIG Newsletter (blog), September 12, 2023, https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/antitrust-monopolies.
In prose: 4. Stoller, “Antitrust Enforcement.”
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BEFORE YOU FORMAT
What Chicago 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
- Add the descriptor "(blog)" in parentheses after the blog title if not obvious.
Building the entry, step by step
Collect the details
Before you format anything, gather every element Chicago 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 bibliography entry
Arrange those details in the Chicago order: Last, First. “Title of Post.” Blog Name (blog), Month Day, Year. URL.
Add the in-text citation
In the body of your paper, cite it as 1. Matt Stoller, “Antitrust Enforcement and Digital Monopolies,” BIG Newsletter (blog), September 12, 2023, https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/antitrust-monopolies. — or work the same reference into your sentence as 4. Stoller, “Antitrust Enforcement.”.
Check it against the exceptions
Add the descriptor "(blog)" in parentheses after the blog title if not obvious.
Chicago RULES
The conventions behind every Chicago entry
The Chicago Manual of Style (17th ed.) is the authority. Where a journal or department publishes its own house rules, those win — check your submission guidelines before the bibliography is final.
The rules that apply across every source — author order, capitalization, how the bibliography is sorted, and where Chicago entries most often go wrong — are collected on the Chicago 17th edition (notes–bibliography) 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 Chicago 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 Chicago?
Add the descriptor "(blog)" in parentheses after the blog title if not obvious.
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
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