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How I personally format publishers and websites in citations
I'm writing this mostly as a guideline for myself that ensures I remain consistent in this practice, and it also hopefully explains why my practice may appear incongruous at a glance. If this guideline is inadequate for one reason or another, I'm more than willing to compromise and work towards finding the best solution for this wiki.
So the house style of this wiki, which is largely inspired by MLA, generally employs this format:
- Author's name or pseudonym. Work title. Publisher.
If the work is sourced from a website, whether or not operated by the Publisher (it may have been uploaded to that website by an unlicensed third-party), it is generally specified as follows:
- Author's name or pseudonym. Work title. Publisher. Retrieved from Website.
However, if the website in question is a social media or video sharing platform, then the platform (website) is treated as the Publisher, and the name of the uploading account is treated as the Author. Even if the work was published on that platform by its originating institution or an official partner, they would practically have to use an account like all others on its respective platform, therefore the account's name is being equated here to a pseudonym or handle, and the website becomes the main disseminator of that institution's work.
- Name of the author's or publisher's account. Work title. Website.
In rare cases, we additionally know the name of the person who authored the work and who uses the publisher's account as a mediator. The citation is then formatted like:
- Author's name via the publisher's account. Work title. Website.
A picture of Boo Wario I found on the internet.
Cool Mario street art in Bucharest, Romania. Artist signed with Instagram handle @bbuzu. Photo was taken in October 2021; unfortunately, the art has since been defaced (marioboards.com).
    
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