October 18, 2007
The Delicate Art of Blog Citation
Quite a few academic bloggers have commented (not always kindly) on a set of blog citation guidelines recently promulgated by the National Library of Medicine.
As the guidelines suggest, writing a proper blog citation requires time, care, and precision.
But we at The Chronicle have been practicing our skills with the NLM citation rules, and maybe we can save you a bit of effort. If you’re writing a paper for a medical journal and you’d like to cite any (or all) of the following five blog posts, feel free to copy and paste the citations below into your bibliography:
B, Mr. Bitch Ph.D. [blog on the Internet]. Bitch Ph.D., editor. [Los Angeles]: Bitch Ph.D. [2004 July] – . Insomniac Night of Gothic Terror; 2006 May 26 [cited 2007 Oct 18]; [about 2 screens]. Available from: http://bitchphd.blogspot.com/2006/05/insomniac-night-of-gothic-terror_26.html
Cranky Professor, The. The Cranky Professor [blog on the Internet]. [place unknown]: The Cranky Professor. 2005 Jan – . Publishers. Yeesh!; 2006 Feb 9 [cited 2007 Oct 18]; [about 1 screen]. Available from: http://www.crankyprofessor.com/archives/000581.html
Drezner D. Daniel W. Drezner [blog on the Internet]. Chicago/Medford: Daniel W. Drezner. 2002 Sep – . I Am Not a Blogaholic, I Am Not a Blogaholic . . . ; 2004 May 26 [cited 2007 Oct 18]; [about 1 screen]. Available from: http://www.danieldrezner.com/archives/001322.html
Flavia. Ferule & Fescue [blog on the Internet]. [place unknown]: Flavia. [1999] – . Friday Cat Blogging; 2007 Sep 21 [cited 2007 Oct 18]; [about 2 screens]. Available from http://feruleandfescue.blogspot.com/2007/09/friday-cat-blogging.html
Sterne, Jonathan. Super Bon! [blog on the Internet]. Montréal: Jonathan Sterne. 2004 Aug – . Important News About Cheese; 2005 Jul 31 [cited 2007 Oct 18]; [about 1 screen]. Available from: http://superbon.net/?p=197
David Glenn | Posted on Thursday October 18, 2007 | PermalinkComments
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As honored as I am to be cited here, for one of my most memorable posts, I should make a correction: as my archives indicate, I’ve only been at Ferule & Fescue since May 2006, and in the blogosphere since May 2005.
It’s the academic mystery, not the blogging one, that I’ve been discrediting since 1999.
— Flavia Oct 18, 08:09 PM #