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APA 7th

APA (American Psychological Association) 7th edition is an author-date referencing style requiring an in-text citation within the text of your document and a related entry in a reference list at the end of your document.

Blog post - reference list

No date: If there is no year of publication, use the abbreviation (n.d.) for no date.

Blog post title: The Blog Post Site is in italics, and Title Case (capitalise the first letter of each major word). The Blog post title is in sentence case, i.e. capitalise the first letter of the first word and the first word after a colon. Capitalise proper nouns.

For more information on Blog post references, visit the APA Style Blog.

For more information on reference list format and style, see General information - basics of referencing.

Format

Author. (Year, Date). Title of post. Name of Site. https://xxx

Note: Blog posts are treated more like an article in a journal.

Examples

Bolstad, R. (2017, August 22). What motivates game-using teachers? Episode 6. NZCER. https://www.nzcer.org.nz/blogs/what-motivates-game-using-teachers-episode-6

Island Mum. (2012, July 15). What we're reading: An introduction to the criminal law. No Mum is an Island. http://nomumisanisland.blogspot.co.nz/2012/07/what-were-reading-introduction-to.html

Kepnes, M. (2017, August 3). What’s the matter with Lonely Planet? Nomadic Matt. Retrieved from https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/lonely-planet/

Blog post - in-text citations

Parenthetical citation: When you use another person’s ideas or words in your text, include the author’s name and date of publication in brackets, generally at the end of the sentence,  e.g. ... services closer to home (Bishop, 2024).

Narrative citation: If you use the author’s name as part of a sentence, include the date of publication in brackets, generally at the beginning of the sentence, e.g. Bishop (2024) argued that time was ... 

 

Parenthetical citation

... the guidebooks focused on affordable travel options and off-the-beaten-track locations (Kepnes, 2012).

Narrative citation

Island Mum (2012) critiques a children's book, The Elephant and The Bad Baby, from an interesting perspective of criminal law.