I am putting together a scholarly poster for my insect discoveries of Apidae in Magnuson Park, Seattle, WA. When I go to the map view of my contributions to the Project “Biodiversity of Magnuson Park, Seattle WA,” I come across this lovely map (see screenshot below) that shows the spatial distributi…

i guess it depends on which style you’re using for citation. MLA would be something like: Map of Camille Isben’s contributions to Biodiversity of Magnuson Park, Seattle, WA, project. iNaturalist, 2020, www.inaturalist.org . (optionally, you could add “Accessed 30 May 2020.” to the end of the abo…

In this case the citation in text would be: (iNaturalist 2020)? That’s interesting, I had not thought about citing it that way before.

yeah… i think MLA is more used in humanities. they recommend more simplification in the references for whatever reason. i would tend to use something closer to the APA or Chicago styles. i don’t really think the specific style matters as long as someone else can actually use your reference to get ba…

Thank you for taking the time to respond so thoroughly! This is really helpful. Also, regarding the attribution on the screenshot, for some reason, when I had zoomed in enough (I was trying to zoom in to get the map to fill my whole screen for the best quality possible) it dropped off the Google par…

Thank you! I’m glad to be here!

Soon you will be as addicted to iNat as we are, lol. Have a great time!

How to cite a map inset on iNaturalist?

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