I am doing a history paper on a historian for my HIST 300 class and have found that he did an AMA on Reddit. I would to be able to use some of the stuff he said in my paper, but I am unsure on how I would go about citing that. Any help would be awesome.
The Chicago Manual of Style quick guide has an entry for blog posts and comments. I think this would fit, but Im not sure if its the same for Turabian. The entry is:
Blog entries or comments may be cited in running text (“In a comment posted to The Becker-Posner Blog on February 23, 2010, . . .”) instead of in a note, and they are commonly omitted from a bibliography. The following examples show the more formal versions of the citations. There is no need to add pseud. after an apparently fictitious or informal name. (If an access date is required, add it before the URL; see examples elsewhere in this guide.)
- Jack, February 25, 2010 (7:03 p.m.), comment on Richard Posner, “Double Exports in Five Years?,” The Becker-Posner Blog, February 21, 2010, http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/beckerposner/2010/02/double-exports-in-five-years-posner.html.
- Jack, comment on Posner, “Double Exports.” Becker-Posner Blog, The. http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/beckerposner/.
For the top level AMA post, you could just cite it as a website page,
Google. “Google Privacy Policy.” Last modified March 11, 2009. http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html.
However, I would strongly advise you to consult with your professor, not only to find out how they would like you to cite it, but to make sure that that kind of source is acceptable. Different professors have different standards, and different ways of doing things.
So if I were citing this comment, I would do
BeondTheGrave, posted January 19, 2015, comment on Reddit, "How Do I make a Turabian Citation of a Reddit AMA?" Reddit, January 19, 2015, http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2szwq9/how_do_i_make_a_turabian_citation_of_a_reddit_ama/cnuj1xj