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Referencing

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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, e.g. Tweet, Facebook, Instagram photo, etc.
  • 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 organization name, plus social media account username (if any) in brackets.
  • Words in the titles and subtitles are capitalized, except articles and prepositions
  • For multiple authors check the author layout table for in-text and reference list format