How to make a reference for a picture posted on Facebook?

mysille · August 26, 2022

Hello,

Does anyone know how to make a reference for a picture posted on Facebook? I am currently making references for a book and I really struggle with this. I hope you can help me :))

damnation · August 26, 2022

Which style are you using?
Do their guidelines say anything about citing such posts?

Item type "Forum post" might be the way to go though.

mysille · August 26, 2022

I am using APA. But will the person that posted the picture then be the author?

damnation · August 26, 2022

Probably. Have you tried? ;)

mysille · August 26, 2022

Regarding rights, I am not sure whether it should be that. I have also tried to google it but I can't really find anything.

damnation · August 26, 2022

If you don't know a metadata field you don't need to fill it in.
This could be used for a license ("CC BY 4.0" for example).

mysille · August 26, 2022

Actually, I don't even know what a metadata field is :)) So I don't think there is one.

damnation · August 26, 2022

Metadata = the information you are inputting into Zotero.
The authors, the title, the publisher, the date...

mysille · August 26, 2022

Thank you for the explanation :))
And thank you for your help - I hope I will do it right

bwiernik · August 26, 2022

This is an example of how to enter a Facebook post to get formatting according to the APA manual

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2205533/test_items_library/collections/MR2N872S/items/K72QN2W2/item-details

mysille · August 26, 2022

Thank you for the help! So you are typing the first 20 words from the post in the title?

bwiernik · August 26, 2022

That is what the APA manual says. Personally, I think any readable subset or summary of the tittle would be fine