Facebook post (APA)

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Reference list entry

U.S. Department of Education. (2012, October 9). They are resilient [Facebook post]. Retrieved October 15, 2012, from http://www.facebook.com/ED.gov

Explain

  • Use the author’s name exactly as it appears in the post.
  • In place of a title, give a few words of the post followed by the label “Facebook post” in brackets.
  • Include the date you retrieved the source and the URL for the poster’s Facebook page.
  • If you are citing a personal Facebook page that will not be accessible to your readers, cite it as personal communication in your text, not in the reference list.

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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