Social Media Posts

Footnotes

Footnote template

Username, 'Title' (Social Media Platform, Full Date, Time) <URL>.

Footnote examples

Brooking Creative Labs, ‘Is  America  Dreaming?:  Understanding  Social  Mobility’  (YouTube,  20  July  2015)  00:00:00–00:01:00 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG6-UaBECN4>.

chapteriiibestbits (Instagram, 21 July 2016 AEST)  <https://www.instagram.com/p/BIICBevgk31>

Bibliography

Bibliography template

Username, 'Title' (Social Media Platform, Full Date, Time) <URL>

Bibliography example

Brooking Creative Labs, ‘Is  America  Dreaming?:  Understanding  Social  Mobility’  (YouTube,  20  July  2015)  00:00:00–00:01:00 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG6-UaBECN4>.

chapteriiibestbits (Instagram, 21 July 2016 AEST)  <https://www.instagram.com/p/BIICBevgk31>

Style notes for social media

• Rule 7.16 covers social media posts, forum posts and online videos uploaded to sites such as YouTube.
• The username should appear as it does on the social media platform. For Twitter accounts, '@' should be included in the username.
• If a social media post doesn’t have a title, you don’t need to include one.
• For full date information (including whether to include the local timezone) consult Rule 7.16. You can include the time of posting if it helps identify which post is being referenced.
• Pinpoint references to video can include a time or timespan, see Rules 1.11.3 – 1.11.4.
• A URL should be included after the first reference to a source. If the full URL is cumbersome and the source can be easily found from the main page, you can use the address of the general site. See Rule 4.4.