IEEE style
How to cite a academic blog post in IEEE style
Institutional and academic blog posts require full publication dates, blog title, and platform URLs.
THE FORMAT
A academic blog post in IEEE, at a glance
[#] A. B. Author, “Title of blog post,” Blog Name, Mon. DD, YYYY. [Online]. Available: https://...
[4] B. Krebs, “Critical zero-day vulnerability in embedded router firmware,” Krebs on Security, Oct. 24, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/10/router-vulnerability
Firmware exploitation vectors are detailed in [4].
In prose: Krebs [4] documented the zero-day exploit sequence.
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BEFORE YOU FORMAT
What IEEE 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
- IEEE requires the “[Online]” descriptor for blog posts and web publications.
- Abbreviate the publication month according to IEEE standards (Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr., May, Jun., Jul., Aug., Sep., Oct., Nov., Dec.).
- The blog title is set in italics and the post title is set in double quotation marks.
Building the entry, step by step
Collect the details
Before you format anything, gather every element IEEE 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 IEEE order: [#] A. B. Author, “Title of blog post,” Blog Name, Mon. DD, YYYY. [Online]. Available: https://...
Add the in-text citation
In the body of your paper, cite it as Firmware exploitation vectors are detailed in [4]. — or work the same reference into your sentence as Krebs [4] documented the zero-day exploit sequence..
Check it against the exceptions
IEEE requires the “[Online]” descriptor for blog posts and web publications.
IEEE RULES
The conventions behind every IEEE entry
IEEE Reference Guide 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 IEEE entries most often go wrong — are collected on the IEEE style 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 IEEE and blog posts
What if the academic blog post has no author?
Start the entry with the title and keep the number you already assigned it. A numeric references never re-sorts for a missing author, so the entry stays exactly where it is.
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 IEEE?
IEEE requires the “[Online]” descriptor for blog posts and web publications.
What else catches people out here?
Abbreviate the publication month according to IEEE standards (Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr., May, Jun., Jul., Aug., Sep., Oct., Nov., Dec.).
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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