Social Media | 17th Edition

A person choosing between social media sites.The first entry is a sample footnote/endnote as it would appear the first time that a work is cited. Remember, while our examples begin with “1.”, notes should be numbered based on the order they occur in the paper.

The second entry is a shortened version for subsequent notes from the same source.

The third entry is the bibliographic citation that will be found at the end of the work. A bibliography is alphabetized by author’s last name.


NOTE: In most cases, it is sufficient to simply cite social media posts in the text itself. For instance, the following line from a paper on internet culture would require no further citations:

Dril led the vanguard of so-called ‘weird twitter’ with surrealist tweets like: “’im not owned! im not owned!!’, i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob” (@dril, November 10, 2011).

However, in cases when a more formal citation is desired, follow the below format. If a title isn’t available, use the first 160 characters of a post.

1. Cory Doctorow (@doctorow), “Kellogg's wants to break their strike by hiring 1400 permanent workers, instead of negotiating with their striking workers in good faith,” Tweet, December 8, 2021, https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1468708504638668801.
2. Doctorow, “Kellogg's.”
Doctorow, Cory. “Kellogg's wants to break their strike by hiring 1400 permanent workers, instead of negotiating with their striking workers in good faith.” Twitter, December 8, 2021. https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1468708504638668801.

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