Note: To cite a Facebook page as a whole, include only the URL in parentheses (round brackets) as the in-text citation. No reference list entry is needed.
To cite a specific Facebook post, use the poster’s name and the year as you would for other in-text citations.
In-text citation
Rule: (Username or Group Name Year)
(Services Australia 2020)
In a recent Facebook post, Services Australia (2020) ...
Rule: Username or Group Name (Year:paragraph number)
(Services Australia 2020:2)
Reference list
Rule: Name of Page or Poster (Day Month Year) ‘Title or first 10 words of content of post ...’ [type of post], Page of Post, accessed Day Month Year, URL.
Services Australia (31 January 2020) ‘Our mobile servicing arrangements will continue in NSW, VIC ...’ [Facebook status], Services Australia, accessed 1 February 2020, https://www.facebook.com/ServicesAustralia.
Note: To cite a Twitter feed as a whole, include only the URL in parentheses (round brackets) as the in-text citation. No reference list entry is needed.
To cite a specific Tweet, use the poster’s name and the year as you would for other in-text citations.
In-text citation
Rule: (Name of page or poster)
(Architecture Digest 2020)
Rule: Name of page or poster (year)
In a Tweet, Architecture Digest (2020) said the portraits...
Reference list
Rule: Name of Page or Poster (Day Month Year) ‘Title or first 10 words of content of post ...’ [type of post], Page of Post, accessed Day Month Year, URL
Architecture Digest (22 May 2021) 'The two long-lost portraits had been covered up by plaster...' [Tweet], Architecture Digest, accessed 1 June 2021, https://twitter.com/ArchDigest/status/1395877536815529986.