Websites, Social Media & Blogs
Web Page
Include as much of the following information as you can. Leave out Owner/Sponsor if it is the same as the website title.
Author. Year of publication or revision.
"Title of the Page/Document." Title
of Website, Owner/Sponsor of
Website, Month day, year of
publication or revision. URL.
Provincial Information and Library Resources
Board. 2014. "Annual Report 2013-14."
Newfoundland and Labrador Public
Libraries, August 5, 2014.
http://www.nlpl.ca/component/
phocadownload/category/6-reports-plans.
html?download=411:annual-report-
2013-14.
Janzen, Olaf U. 2014. “Beothuk and Mi’kmaq.”
Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of
Newfoundland. Last modified January 13,
2014. http://www2.swgc.mun.ca/nfld_
history/nfld_history_beothuk.htm.
No author?
The web page should be listed under the title of the website or name of its owner or sponsor.
The Rooms. 2010. "The Newfoundland
Regiment and the Great War: The Trail
of the Caribou." http://www.therooms.ca/
regiment/part2_trail_of_the_caribou.asp.
No date?
If no date of publication, last revision or modification is given, use the abbreviation "n.d." for "no date" and include the date you accessed it. Do not use the date of access in your in-text citation.
Kaufield, Kathy, and Alain Bosse. n.d. "Atlantic
Lobster Food Service Guide," Canadian
Lobster, Lobster Council of Canada.
Accessed March 11, 2020.
https://lobstercouncilcanada.ca/wp-
content/uploads/ /2017/03/ Atlantic_
Lobster_Guide_P12_compressed.pdf.
Social Media Post
Retain a copy of the social media content cited, in case your cited post gets deleted. Social Media citations can normally be limited to an in-text citation. A URL can be included after the date (optional). Unless it is critical to your argument or frequently cited, social media posts are not included in the Reference List. See pp. 262-264 for examples if needed.
In-text Citation:
Local news organization VOCM's Question of the Day on Twitter was "With provincial vaccination rates nearing 80 percent, are you comfortable and ready to head back into the workplace?" (@VOCMNEWS, September 14, 2021).
YouTube Video
In-text Citation:
BBC Ideas’ YouTube video, “The Quiet Power of Introverts” (2020) explains how dopamine and acetylcholine affect the brain differently.
Blog Post
Blog posts are cited similar to online magazine and newspaper articles. The word blog may be added in parenthesis after the blog title.
Katsari, Constantina. 2015. “Ancient Artifacts
from the Erotic Museum in Paris.” Love of
History (blog), February 9, 2015.
http://loveofhistory.com/ancient-artifacts
-from-the-erotic-museum-in-paris/.
For more examples and specific information about Websites, Blogs, and Social Media please see pp. 261-264 of A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 9th ed. available at the library: LB 2369 T8 2018.