How to Cite a Blog Post in AGLC4

Blog posts are cited like articles, with the blog in place of the journal. This page follows AGLC4, Australian Guide to Legal Citation, 4th edition (2018).

AGLC4 format for a blog post

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Karpathy, Andrej, ‘The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks’, Andrej Karpathy Blog (Blog Post, 21 May 2015) <https://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/>

Footnote

Andrej Karpathy, ‘The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks’, Andrej Karpathy Blog (Blog Post, 21 May 2015) <https://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/>.

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Karpathy (n 1).

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    At minimum: author, date posted, post title, blog name, url. The posting date is usually under the title or in the URL.

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    Bibliography entry: Karpathy, Andrej, ‘The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks’, Andrej Karpathy Blog (Blog Post, 21 May 2015) <https://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/> Footnote: Andrej Karpathy, ‘The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks’, Andrej Karpathy Blog (Blog Post, 21 May 2015) <https://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/>.

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