APA 7
APA 7th Edition is the most commonly used referencing style here at the University of Portsmouth. Below you will find general guidance on how to reference and cite using APA 7th Edition, as well as examples for the specific sources you are likely to use in your assignments.
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Reference
Online forum posts may contain non-standard spelling, capitalisation, hashtags, links and emojis. Do not alter spelling or capitalisation and retain hashtags and emojis (links and emojis count as one word).
If the forum post includes images, videos, or thumbnails with links indicate that in square brackets.
Author. [username]. (Year, Month Date of posting). Text of post up to twenty words [Online forum post; Description of audiovisuals if present]. Name of Site. URL
Little, J. [j450n_l]. (2018, December 12). I'm the first person in the world with a neural-enabled prosthetic hand. Using an specialized prosthetic and a device implanted [Online forum post]. Reddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/a5jxbe/im_the_first_person_in_the_world_with_a/
In-text citation
In a forum post... (Little, 2018)
Little (2018) announced on Reddit...