How to Cite a Blog Post in MLA

Blog posts are cited like articles, with the blog in place of the journal. This page follows MLA 9th edition, 9th edition (2021).

MLA format for a blog post

MLA 9th edition

Works Cited entry

Karpathy, Andrej. “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks.” Andrej Karpathy Blog, 21 May 2015, https://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/.

In-text citation

(Karpathy)

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    • The posting date is usually under the title or in the URL.

    Required in most styles: author, date posted, post title, blog name, url.

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    What do I need to cite a blog post in MLA?

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

    What does a blog post look like in MLA?

    Works Cited entry: Karpathy, Andrej. “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks.” Andrej Karpathy Blog, 21 May 2015, https://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/. In-text citation: (Karpathy)

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