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A-Z Harvard Solent Referencing examples

A-Z Harvard Solent Referencing examples

Social Media Post (Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X etc.)

In-text reference example 

Swift (2024) combines her songs in a way that...

...is how mash-ups work (Swift 2024).


Reference list format 

AUTHOR, year. Post/caption. [Name of site]. Day/month of posted message [viewed day month year]. Available from: URL

If the content is behind a password give the main web address for the site as the URL.


Reference list examples

SWIFT, T., 2024. 1989 acoustic mash up CHAOS in Sydney (Taylor’s Version). [TikTok]. 1st March [viewed 07 June 2024]. Available from: https://www.tiktok.com/@taylorswift/video/7341387195825098015

COX, B., 2022. Where do you see space travel in another 70 years? [Facebook]. 15th February [viewed 07 June 2024]  Available from: https://www.facebook.com/ProfessorBrianCox

KHAN, A, 2024. Such an amazing evening, celebrating how libraries impact and improve the well-being of local residents love libraries. [X]. 6th June [viewed 07 June 2024].  Available from: https://x.com/ayubkhan786/status/1798753151434072470

WORSLEY, L, 2024. Here's a room that casts a powerful spell: the bedroom used in her exile at Hampton Court by Grand Duchess Xenia, sister of Russia's last tsar Nicholas Romanov.  [Instagram]. 19th March. [viewed 07 June 2024]. Available from: https://www.instagram.com/p/C4tEC6ps6lw/

 


Page numbers in your in-text references 

You may want to include the page number or number range indicating where you found the information you are referring to for some sources. For guidance on how to do this see the ‘Page numbers for in-text references’ section.

Social media posts may sometimes have a corporate author rather than an individual named as author.

A corporate author is an organisation or company, for example, that created the information source.

Add a corporate author by including the full name both in your in-text citation and in your full reference list.

 

In-text reference example 

Solent University (2024) discuss how their...

...is designed with multiple functions (Solent University 2024).


Reference list format 

CORPORATE AUTHOR, year. Post/caption. [Name of site]. Day/month of posted message [viewed day month year]. Available from: URL

If the content is behind a password give the main web address for the site as the URL.


Reference list examples

SOLENT UNIVERSITY, 2024. Ever wondered what the big red thing in our Spark building is? Join Pietro as he unveils the mystery. [TikTok]. 24th May [viewed 07 June 2024]. Available from: https://www.tiktok.com/@solentuniofficial/video/7372585022907239713

SOLENT UNI LIBRARY, 2024. For career advice on CV writing, interview skills, selection tests and more, check our careers collection on floor 1A, opposite the individual study rooms, and our online page [Facebook]. 28th May [viewed 07 June 2024].  Available from: https://www.facebook.com/solentlibrary

BRITISH LIBRARY, 2023. I'm travelling through time using the sound archive, from 1918 Berlin to the island of Zanzibar in the 1930s to create my artwork. We asked Nicholas Calvin Mwakatobe to explain what it’s like to be an artist in residence at the Library. [X]. 26th October [viewed 07 June 2024].  Available from: https://x.com/britishlibrary/status/1717541597326573758

BODLEIAN LIBRARIES, 2024. "It seems 'mischief' was just simply living. It was resistance. It was agency." Broadcaster and artist Peter Brathwaite talks about his Bodleian archival research into his enslaved - and enslaver - ancestors. The full 4m film is on our YouTube channel. [Instagram]. 29th April [viewed 07 June 2024]. Available from: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6WI5MWLhoP/

 


Page numbers in your in-text references 

You may want to include the page number or number range indicating where you found the information you are referring to for some sources. For guidance on how to do this see the ‘Page numbers for in-text references’ section.