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Chicago B (Author-date)

ACU Library guide to Chicago B: author-date referencing style

Social media post

Reference list

Author last Name, First Name (username). Year of publication. "Title of post". Type of post, Month Day, Year. http://xxxxxxxxxxxx.

Australian Childhood Foundation. 2020. "Love, for a child, is everything. So too, the absence of love is a child's everything." Facebook, August 1, 2020. https://www.facebook.com/australianchildhood/.

In-text

(Australian Childhood Foundation 2020)

Australian Childhood Foundation (2020) states that …

Notes

  • Type of post refers to the social media service and type of content, for example, Facebook, Instagram photo.
  • Include author's real name, or organisation name, plus social media account username (if any) in brackets.
  • In place of a title enter up to 160 characters of a post, and capitalise as in the original.
  • For multiple authors check the author layout table for in-text and reference list format.

Blog post

Reference list

Author Last name, First name. "Title of article." Title of blog (blog). Month Day, Year. http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

Polansky, Iva. 2018. “The Noon Girl: La Midinette." Victorian Paris (blog). June 1, 2018. https://victorianparis.wordpress.com/2018/06/01/the-noon-girl-la-midinette/.

In-text

(Polansky 2018)

Polansky (2018)

Notes

  • If the author's given name is provided, use the full name.
  • Include author's real name, or organisation name, plus social media account username (if any) in brackets.
  • Words in the titles and subtitles are capitalised, except articles and prepositions.
  • For multiple authors check the author layout table for in-text and reference list format.