AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGY ASSOCIATION (APA) 7TH EDITION

SAMPLE REFERENCE CITATIONS FOR FACEBOOK POST REFERENCES

*The source of these reference samples is: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples

• Use the name associated with the account as the name in the reference.
• Provide the specific date of the post.
• Provide the first 20 words of the post as the title. Count a URL or other link, a hashtag, or an emoji as one word each, and include them in the reference if they fall within the first 20 words. Do not italicize emojis.
• If a post includes images, videos, thumbnail links to outside sources, or content from another post (such as when sharing a link), indicate that in square brackets.
• Describe the post type (e.g., “[Status update],” “[Video]”) in square brackets after any description of attached content.
• Credit Facebook as the site name in the source element and then provide the URL of the post.