Twitter post (tweet) (APA)

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Reference list entry

CQ Researcher. (2012, December 5). Up to 80 percent of the 600,000 processed foods sold in America have sugar added to their recipes. See http://bit.ly/UmfA4L [Tweet]. Retrieved from https://twitter.com/cqresearcher/status/276449095521038336

Explain

  • Begin with the author’s real name, if known, and give the pseudonym or screen name in brackets exactly as it appears in the source (including capitalization and punctuation).
  • If only the screen name is known, begin with that name and do not use brackets.
  • Include the entire text of the tweet as the title, followed by the label “Tweet” in brackets.
  • End with the URL.

Note on breaking URLs and DOIs

  • If you must break a URL or a DOI at the end of a line, break it after a double slash or before any other mark of punctuation.
  • Do not add a hyphen.
  • Do not put a period at the end of the entry.

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