In-text citations

Paraphrasing

Daly (2014) asserts that a Pennsylvanian student buys WMD ingredients …

Direct quote

Place direct quotes between single quotation marks ' ' and provide the paragraph number.

'A Pennsylvanian student has been buying ingredients on Amazon for a WMD … ' (Daly 2014, para. 5).

Reference list

TEMPLATE

Author [screen name], Year, ‘Title’ form, viewed date, URL

Daly, Michael 2014, ‘Pennsylvania student proves you could buy ingredients for a WMD on Amazon’, blog post, 29 January, viewed 13 March 2014, http://www.thedailybeast.com
/articles/2014/01/28/

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• Give real name of poster. Add screen name (if one) in square brackets, or alone if real unknown.
  Give year after name. Add date of post after the title and form.
• Give post/comment/tweet as title (with single quote marks, no italics).
• Add form (e.g., tweet; facebook post; photograph, etc.) after title. (Use ‘twitter page’ or ‘facebook page’ if using someone’s entire feed/timeline as a source.)
• Give full URL of item. If item is archived, give archived version URL (click post’s date stamp). Retrieval date: Not needed for items with a specific associated date (e.g., individual tweets, posts, etc.), but is needed for whole feeds/pages because content will change.