Harvard referencing
How to cite a academic blog post in Harvard referencing
Institutional and academic blog posts require full publication dates, blog title, and platform URLs.
THE FORMAT
A academic blog post in Harvard, at a glance
Author, A. (Year) ‘Title of post’, Blog Title, Day Month. Available at: URL (Accessed: Day Month Year).
Naughton, J. (2024) ‘Why generative AI is not a search engine’, Memex 1.1, 8 March. Available at: https://memex.naughtons.org/archives/2024/03/08/ai-search (Accessed: 12 March 2024).
(Naughton, 2024)
In prose: Naughton (2024) analyzes search vs generative synthesis.
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BEFORE YOU FORMAT
What Harvard 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
- Include the day and month of posting, plus the retrieval date.
Building the entry, step by step
Collect the details
Before you format anything, gather every element Harvard 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 reference list entry
Arrange those details in the Harvard order: Author, A. (Year) ‘Title of post’, Blog Title, Day Month. Available at: URL (Accessed: Day Month Year).
Add the in-text citation
In the body of your paper, cite it as (Naughton, 2024) — or work the same reference into your sentence as Naughton (2024) analyzes search vs generative synthesis..
Check it against the exceptions
Include the day and month of posting, plus the retrieval date.
Harvard RULES
The conventions behind every Harvard entry
your institution’s Harvard style guide — Harvard has no single governing manual is the authority. Where a journal or department publishes its own house rules, those win — check your submission guidelines before the reference list is final.
The rules that apply across every source — author order, capitalization, how the reference list is sorted, and where Harvard entries most often go wrong — are collected on the Harvard referencing 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 Harvard 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 Harvard?
Include the day and month of posting, plus the retrieval date.
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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