Websites, Social Media & Blogs

Web Page

Leave out Owner/Sponsor if it is the same as the website title.

       20. Author, "Title of the Page/Document," Title of Website, Owner/Sponsor of Website, publication or revision date, URL.

Note:
       21. Provincial Information and Library Resources Board, "Annual Report 2013-14," Newfoundland and Labrador Public Libraries, August 5, 2014, http://www.nlpl.ca/component/phocadownload/category/6-reports-plans.html?download=411:annual-report-2013-14.

       22. Olaf U. Janzen, “Beothuk and Mi’kmaq,” Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland, last modified January 13, 2014, http://www2.swgc.mun.ca/nfld_history/nfld_history_beothuk.htm.

Bibliography:
Websites are normally only cited in your notes and not included in your bibliography unless its "critical to your argument or frequently cited."

No author?

Begin with the title of the webpage/document instead.

Note:
       23. "The Newfoundland Regiment and the Great War: The Trail of the Caribou," The Rooms, 2010, http://www.therooms.ca/regiment/part2_trail_of_the_caribou.asp.

No date?

If no date of publication, last revision or modification is given, include the date you accessed it.

Note:
       24. Kathy Kaufield and Alain Bosse, "Atlantic Lobster Food Service Guide," Canadian Lobster, Lobster Council of Canada, accessed March 11, 2020, https://lobstercouncilcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/ Atlantic_ Lobster_Guide_P12_compressed.pdf.

Social Media Post

Retain a copy of the social media content cited, in case your cited post gets deleted. Social Media citations can often be limited to the text:

Local news organization VOCM's Question of the Day on Twitter was "With provincial vaccination rates nearing 80 percent, are you comfortable and ready to head back into the workplace?" (@VOCMNEWS, September 14, 2021).

If it is especially important to link back to the original post, you may include a note. If only a screen name is known, use the screen name in place of an author's name.

Note:

       25. Author's Real Name (@Username), "Up to the first 160 characters of the post," Site Name and description if it is a photo or video, Month day, year of post, URL.

       26. Archives and Special Collections, Queen Elizabeth II Library, MUN (@MUNarchivesandspecialcollections), "JR Smallwood, Clara (Oates) Smallwood and their baby. Probably Ramsey. From the JR Smallwood backlog," Facebook photo, September 13, 2020, https://www.facebook.com/MUNarchivesandspecialcollections/photos/a.985705874831536/3366479666754133/.

Bibliography:

Turabian recommends only citing social media posts in the text or in notes.

YouTube Video

Note:

       27. BBC Ideas, "The Quiet Power of Introverts," YouTube video, 3:42, January 28, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Y4Z0oh1GE.

Bibliography:

Turabian recommends only citing in notes.

Blog Post

Blog posts are cited like online newspaper articles. The word blog may be added in parenthesis after the blog title.

Note:

       28. Constantina Katsari, “Ancient Artifacts from the Erotic Museum in Paris,” Love of History (blog), February 9, 2015, http://loveofhistory.com/ancient-artifacts-from-the-erotic-museum-in-paris/.

Bibliography:

Like newspaper articles, Turabian recommends only citing blog posts in notes.

 

For more examples or more specific information about how to cite Websites, Social Media & Blogs, please see pp. 194-197 of A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. 9th ed. available at the library: LB 2369 T8 2018.