No date: If there is no year of publication, use the abbreviation (n.d.) for no date.
Blog post site: The Blog Post Site is in italics, and Title Case (Capitalise the first letter of each major word).
Blog post title: 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 reference list format and style, see General information - basics of referencing.
Author. (Year, Date). Title of post. Name of Site. https://xxx
Note: Blog posts are treated more like an article in a journal.
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/
Parenthetical citation: When you use another person’s ideas or words in your text, include the author’s name and publication date 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 ...
... showing picturesque New Zealand (Jayne, 2023).
Note: If you use a parenthetical citation the first time, followed by a narrative citation, you need to repeat the date.
The NZ Transport Agency (2023) promotes one of New Zealand's parrots for Bird of the Century.
Note: If you use a narrative citation the first time, followed by another narrative citation, you can omit the date. But, if you use a parenthetical citation the next time, you must include the date.