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Comment. Chicago and the APA agree on italicizing Encyclopaedia Britannica Online, Wikipedia, and other online reference-work sites. They agree on romanizing nonreference sites that have names like NYTimes.com, Facebook, and IMDb. Otherwise they disagree: APA uses roman where Chicago uses italic.

CMOS (2010) says that a website title should be set in roman — unless the site (1) has the same name as an in-print publication or (2) is analogous to a book or periodical. And it says that blogs are analogous to periodicals."Websites and web pages. General titles of websites … are normally set in roman. Some websites share the name of a printed counterpart, and others (such as Wikipedia) are analogous to one of the types of works discussed elsewhere [books and periodicals]; these titles should be styled accordingly: “IMDb”; “NYTimes.com” (but “the New York Times online”); “Encyclopaedia Britannica Online”; “Wikipedia”"Blogs and blog entries. Titles of named blogs, like the titles of periodicals, should be italicized:"“Wasted Food”; “The Becker-Posner Blog”" The new APA Style Guide to Electronic References (2012) romanizes the names of websites and blogs:"“Facebook”; “the APA Style website”; “the APA Style Blog”"But it says that online reference works such as Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Wikipedia fall in the category of books, not websites."Books … and Reference Books. This category also includes … reference works that are available online.. Entry in Wikipedia. Psychology. (n.d.). In Wikipedia. Retrieved May 17, 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology""Wikipedia is italicized because it is the name of a reference work.""Archived entry in Wikipedia. Psychology. (2011, February 15). In Wikipedia. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Psychology&oldid=413979409."Websites … and Social Media"Facebook page or note. Federal Emergency Management Agency. (ca. 2011). Fire safety …." Your call: Chicago or APA? --Dervorguilla (talk) 06:13, 29 May 2013 (UTC)