Referencing: MLA Style

based on the MLA Handbook, 8th edition

Locate the following information about the personal communication:

• Name of the sender
• Title of the message -- use the subject as the title
• Name of the receiver
• Date of the message

Structure of Citation:

Sender(s). “Title of the Message from Subject Line.” Receiver(s), Date.

Examples:

Obama, Barak. "A Question about Politics." Received by Donald J. Trump, 18 Sept. 2016.

Trump, Donald J. "Re: A Question about Politics." Received by Barak Obama, 20 Sept. 2016.

based on the MLA Handbook, 8th edition

Locate the following information about the personal communication:

• Name of the tweeter
• Title - identify a short untitled message like a tweet by using it's full-text, without changes, in place of a title
• Title of site
• Publication date 
• Location

Structure of Citation:

Tweeter. “Fulltext of the Tweet.” Site, Date, Location.

Examples:

@KensingtonRoyal. "The Duke: 'I am Honoured to be Patron of the Thin Red Line Appeal' @ArgyllsMuseum." Twitter, 24 Oct. 2016, http://twitter.com/kensingtonroyal/status/790516722436542464.

NOTE:  ignore special characters when alphabetizing entries in your "Works Cited" list. @KensingtonRoyal would be alphabetized under K for Kensington.

Manchester, Julia. "Flake Challenger: Trump 'Is What the Country Wanted'." The Hill, Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., 27 Aug. 2017, thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/348176-flake-challenger-trump-has-lofty-goals-that-we-should.

Clancy, Kate. "Defensive Scholarly Writing and Science Communication." Context and Variation, Scientific American Blogs, 24 Apr. 2013, blogs.scientificamerican.com/context-and-variation-2013/04/24/defensive-scholarly-writing-and-science-communication/.

Lilly [@uvisaa]. "[I]f u like dark academia there's a good chance you've seen my tumblr #darkacademia." TikTok, 2020, www.tiktok.com/@uvisaa/video/598023945870270.

Thomas, Angie. Photo of The Hate U Give cover. Instagram, 4 Dec. 2018, www.instagram.com/p/Qu_wlkjePdih.