MLA 9th edition
How to cite a academic blog post in MLA 9th edition
Institutional and academic blog posts require full publication dates, blog title, and platform URLs.
THE FORMAT
A academic blog post in MLA, at a glance
Author Last, First. “Title of Post.” Blog Name, Day Month Year, https://example.org/post.
Suber, Peter. “Ten Principles for Open Access Institutional Repositories.” Open Access News, 18 Nov. 2023, legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/post.
(Suber)
In prose: Suber outlines key repository publishing principles.
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BEFORE YOU FORMAT
What MLA 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
- Full day, month, and year are provided for blog post entries.
Building the entry, step by step
Collect the details
Before you format anything, gather every element MLA 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 works cited entry
Arrange those details in the MLA order: Author Last, First. “Title of Post.” Blog Name, Day Month Year, https://example.org/post.
Add the in-text citation
In the body of your paper, cite it as (Suber) — or work the same reference into your sentence as Suber outlines key repository publishing principles..
Check it against the exceptions
Full day, month, and year are provided for blog post entries.
MLA RULES
The conventions behind every MLA entry
MLA Handbook (9th ed.) is the authority. Where a journal or department publishes its own house rules, those win — check your submission guidelines before the works cited is final.
The rules that apply across every source — author order, capitalization, how the works cited is sorted, and where MLA entries most often go wrong — are collected on the MLA 9th 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 MLA 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 MLA?
Full day, month, and year are provided for blog post entries.
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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