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Diplo Referencing Guide

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This is the Citationsy guide to Diplo citations, reference lists, in-text citations, and bibliographies.
The complete, comprehensive guide shows you how easy citing any source can be. Referencing books, youtube videos, websites, articles, journals, podcasts, images, videos, or music in Diplo.

How to do citations in Diplo style?

How do you cite a book in the Diplo referencing style?

Here’s an example book citation in Diplo using placeholders:

Last Name FN (2000) Title, Edition.Editor Last Name EFN [ed]. City: Publisher.

So if we want to cite, for example, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” by Joanne K. Rowling we’d do so like this:
Diplo citation:

Rowling JK (1997) Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, 1st ed. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.

And an in-text citation book citation in Diplo looks like this: (Rowling, , 1997)

How to reference a journal article in the Diplo citation style?
How do you cite scientific papers in Diplo format?

Here’s a Diplo journal citation example using placeholders:

Author1 LastnameAF and Author3 LastnameAF (2000) Title. Container, 1 January Volume(Issue). Available at URL [accessed 6 August 2021].

So if we want to reference this scientific article: “Testing consumer preferences for iced-coffee: Does the drinking environment have any influence?” by C. Petit and J.M. Sieffermann in Diplo:

Petit C and Sieffermann J (2007) Testing consumer preferences for iced-coffee: Does the drinking environment have any influence?. , 1 January 18(1). Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2006.05.008 [accessed 6 August 2021].

And an in-text citation would look like this: (Petit and Sieffermann, , 2007)

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How to cite a website in a paper in Diplo style?

Here’s an Diplo example website reference:

Author1 LastnameAF and Author2 LastnameAF (2000) Title. 1 January. Available at https://www.example.com [accessed 6 August 2021].

To reference the article located at this link:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/05/uselections20083
on The Guardian website:

Tran M (2008) Barack Obama To Be America’s First Black President. 5 November. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/05/uselections20083 [accessed 6 August 2021].

And an in-text citation would look like this: (Tran, , 2008)

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How to cite a YouTube video Diplo

Here’s a Diplo citation YouTube video example:

ChannelName (2000) Title. YouTube, 1 January. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXXX [accessed 6 August 2021].

So how to cite a video Diplo?

Pixar (2015) Pizza Clip — Inside Out. YouTube, 3 June. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W6rntBADUQ [accessed 6 August 2021].

And an in-text video citation would look like this: (Pixar, , 2015)

How to cite a podcast using Diplo referencing style

It is becoming more and more common to reference podcasts in essays or other school work.
Here’s how to reference a podcast it in Diplo.

Lastname F (2000) Title. Available at http://www.example.com [accessed 6 August 2021].

Podcast referencing example in Diplo using “This American Life” episode 640:

This American Life (2018) 640: Five Women. Available at https://thisamericanlife.org/640/five-women [accessed 6 August 2021].

And an in-text citation would look like this: (This American Life, , 2018)

How to cite a piece of music or a song using Diplo referencing style?

An example song citation in Diplo.

Lastname F (2000) Song Title [audio recording]. Available at http://www.example.com [accessed 6 August 2021].

Let‘s say we want to reference “Here Comes the Sun” off The Beatles “Abbey Road” album in Diplo:

The Beatles (1969) Here Comes the Sun [audio recording]. Available at https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/here-comes-the-sun/401186200?i=401187150 [accessed 6 August 2021].

And an in-text citation would look like this: (The Beatles, , 1969)

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Diplo Referencing Guide

This is the Citationsy guide to Diplo citations, reference lists, in-text citations, and bibliographies. The complete, comprehensive guide shows you how easy citing any source can be. Referencing books, youtube videos, websites, articles, journals, podcasts, images, videos, or music in Diplo.