Vancouver style
How to cite a academic blog post in Vancouver style
Institutional and academic blog posts require full publication dates, blog title, and platform URLs.
THE FORMAT
A academic blog post in Vancouver, at a glance
#. Author AA. Title of blog post. Blog Title [Internet]. Year Mon DD [cited Year Mon DD]. Available from: URL
4. Gorski D. Critical appraisal of acupuncture clinical trial methodologies. Science-Based Medicine [Internet]. 2024 Feb 5 [cited 2024 Feb 12]. Available from: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/acupuncture-trial-appraisal
Methodological flaws in trial design were reviewed.⁴
In prose: Gorski⁴ analyzed trial design vulnerabilities.
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BEFORE YOU FORMAT
What Vancouver 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
- Biomedical blog posts use the standard NLM medium descriptor “[Internet]” after the blog title.
- Provide both the exact posting date and the date you accessed the post: [cited Year Mon DD].
- Use NLM abbreviated journal title style where applicable, or the full blog title in title case.
- Provide the full direct URL ending without trailing punctuation.
Building the entry, step by step
Collect the details
Before you format anything, gather every element Vancouver 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 Vancouver order: #. Author AA. Title of blog post. Blog Title [Internet]. Year Mon DD [cited Year Mon DD]. Available from: URL
Add the in-text citation
In the body of your paper, cite it as Methodological flaws in trial design were reviewed.⁴ — or work the same reference into your sentence as Gorski⁴ analyzed trial design vulnerabilities..
Check it against the exceptions
Biomedical blog posts use the standard NLM medium descriptor “[Internet]” after the blog title.
Vancouver RULES
The conventions behind every Vancouver entry
Citing Medicine (NLM), 2nd ed. — the reference standard behind Vancouver 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 Vancouver entries most often go wrong — are collected on the Vancouver 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 Vancouver 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 Vancouver?
Biomedical blog posts use the standard NLM medium descriptor “[Internet]” after the blog title.
What else catches people out here?
Provide both the exact posting date and the date you accessed the post: [cited Year Mon DD].
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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