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X (formerly known as Twitter) Account Name [@username]. "Text of Tweet." X (formerly known as Twitter), Day Month Year of Tweet, URL. Note: You can shorten a long Tweet by listing only the first few words followed by an ellipsis (...). Note: If the author's account name is similar to their username, you can exclude the [@username] element from the citation. Examples: Hubble. "#MayThe4thBeWithYou! Hubble captured this view of a celestial 'lightsaber' that’s called HH 24..." Twitter, 4 May 2021, twitter.com/NASAHubble/status/1389581790868905991. Lee, Min Jin [@minjinlee11]. "I will never be ashamed of being hated for my race. This shame belongs to the racist. It is not my shame." Twitter, 17 Mar. 2021, twitter.com/minjinlee11/status/1372038596463624192. |
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(Twitter Name) Example: (Hubble) (Lee) |
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Instagram Account Name [@username]. Description of post. Instagram, Day Month Year of Post, URL. Note: If the author's account name is similar to their username, you can exclude the [@username] element from the citation. Examples: Kaur, Rupi. Video of Rupi Kaur poem reading. Instagram, 30 Apr. 2021, www.instagram.com/p/COTCyVaADQe/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link. MoMA The Museum of Modern Art. Photo of 1999 NTT DOCOMO emojis and 2016 iOS emojis. Instagram, 17 Feb. 2021, www.instagram.com/p/CLaTInaB50k/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link. |
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(Account Name) Example: (Kaur) (MoMA The Museum of Modern Art) |
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TikTok Account Name [@username]. "Text of TikTok." TikTok, Day Month Year Posted, URL. Note: You can shorten long text by listing only the first few words followed by an ellipsis (...). Note: If the author's account name is similar to their username, you can exclude the [@username] element from the citation. Examples: Saturday Night Live [@nbcsnl]. "Ok but for real what is an NFT." TikTok, 29 Mar. 2021, https://www.tiktok.com/@nbcsnl/video/6945222679502785797. Washington Post. "In its latest software updates, Apple is forcing apps to first ask before collecting personal information on your phone or tablet." TikTok, 30 Apr. 2021, https://www.tiktok.com/@washingtonpost/video/6956987818140830982. |
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(Account Name) Example: (Saturday Night Live) (Washington Post) |
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Facebook Account Name [@username]. "Text of post or Title of Video." Facebook, Day Month Year of Post, URL. Note: You can shorten long text by listing only the first few words followed by an ellipsis (...). Note: If the author's account name is similar to their username, you can exclude the [@username] element from the citation. Examples: Cho, Seong-Jin. "The Unkown Mozart: World Premiere by Seong-Jin Cho." Facebook, 27 Jan. 2021, www.facebook.com/100044536921960/videos/828765901006444. Internet Archive. "At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book..." Facebook, 6 Feb. 2021, www.facebook.com/internetnetarchive/videos/252387973129402/. |
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(Last Name or Account Name) Example: (Cho) (Internet Archive) |
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Last Name, First Name or Group Name. "Text of post." LinkedIn, Day Month Year of Post, URL. Note: You can shorten long text by listing only the first few words followed by an ellipsis (...). Example: Statistics Canada. "Using data from the Canadian #Housing Statistics Program, our latest article shows that first-time home buyers in #BritishColumbia had higher incomes than repeat buyers..." LinkedIn, 22 Sept. 2021, www.linkedin.com/posts/statcan_housing-britishcolumbia-novascotia-activity-6846187529159380992-kbKh. |
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(Last Name or Group Name) Example: (Statistics Canada) |
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Last Name, First Name or Group Name. "Profile Title" LinkedIn, Year, URL. Example: O'Brien, Conan. "Conan O'Brien." LinkedIn, 2021, www.linkedin.com/in/conanobrien. |
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(Last Name or Group Name) Example: (O'Brien) |
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Username or Last Name, First Name. "Title of Post." Name of Online Forum, Day Month Year of Comment, Time of Comment if given, URL. Example: Informatica6. "[OC] Google Year in Search 2020 Top Search Terms." Reddit, 15 Dec. 2020, 02:55:54, www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/kdhjpn/oc_google_year_in_search_2020_top_search_terms/. |
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(Username or Last Name) Example: (Informatica6) |
A username can be provided in place of a real name. If both username and real name are provided, put the user name first with the real name following in brackets.
Creator information may often be found under a section called "About" for some types of social media, however this is not always standard.
The format of all dates is: Date Month (shortened) Year. E.g. 5 Sept. 2012.
If no date is given, leave that information out of the citation.
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