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APA Style 7th Edition: Citing Your Sources

Provide guidance on APA format style based on the 7th edition of the APA Publication Manual.

Standard Format

Click on the categories below to see what types of information is included for that reference component for Audiovisual Materials.

Basic Format:
Who = Creator (When = year). What = Title of work.  Where = Publisher information and/or URL

For standalone auidovisual media

Director Surname, D. D. (Director).

Producer Surname, P. P. (Executive Producer).

Host Surname, H. H. (Host).

Artist Surname, A. A.

Uploader Username.

Uploader Surname, U. U.

(year).

(year-present).

(year-year).

(year, Month date).

Title of work: Use sentence case [Work type/format].

Production Company.

Label.

Museum Name, Museum Location.

Department Name, University Name.

https://xxx....


For standalone auidovisual media

Writer, W. W. (Writer), & Director, D. D. (Director).

Producer Surname, P. P. (Executive Producer).

Host Surname, H. H. (Host).

Artist Surname, A. A.

Composer Surname, C. C.

(year).

(year, Month date).

Title of episode (Season No., Episode No.)[Description].

Title of song[Description].

In P.P. Producer (Executive Producer), Title of TV series. Production Company.

In Title of podcast. Production Company.

On Title of album. Label.

https://xxx.....

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Formatting Rules

  • Includes content that may have visual and audio components, auido only, or visual only
  • Formatting varies whether stand alone or part of a great whole
  • Author is determined by media type (see p. 341 of APA Manual 7th edition)
  • Work is described using square brackets following the title

Examples

Click on the categories to see examples.

Darabont, F. (Director). (1994). The Shawshank redemption [DVD]. Warner Bros. Pictures.
Johnson, S. (Director). (2018). To all the boys I’ve loved before [Video file]. Overbrook Entertainment and Awesome Films. https://www.netflix.com
Herskovitz, M., Holzman, W., & Zwick, E. (Executive producers). (1994-1995). My so-called life [TV series]. The Bedford Falls company; ABC Productions.
Daniels, G., Kaling, M., Gervais, R., Merchant, S., (Writers), & Gordon, B. (Director). (2006). The injury (Season 2, Episode 12) [Television series episode]. In G. Daniels (Executive producer), The office. National Broadcasting Company. https://www.netflix.com
TED. (2018, May 2). How language shapes the way we think: Lera Boroditsky [Video file]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKK7wGAYP6k
Huang, C. (2018, October). Chieh Huang: Confessions of a recovering micromanager [Video file]. TED Conferences. https://www.ted.com/talks/chieh_huang_confessions_of_a_recovering_micromanager
Vedantam, S. (Host). (2015-present). Hidden Brain [Audio podcast]. NPR. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510308/hidden-brain
Welsh, E. & Allmann Updyke, E. (Hosts). (2019, November 26). Lead poisoning: Heavy metal episode (No. 38) [Audio podcast episode]. In This Podcast Will Kill You. Exactly Right. http://thispodcastwillkillyou.com/2019/11/26/episode-38-lead-poisoning-heavy-metal-episode/
Griffiths, L. (2018). Paul Pogba of France kisses the World Cup trophy following the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia Final between France and Croatia at Luzhniki Stadium on July 15, 2018 in Moscow, Russia [Photograph]. Retrieved from https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/paul-pogba-of-france-kisses-the-world-cup-trophy-following-news-photo/999644734
Nadel, L. (1951). Poor housing [Photograph]. Los Angeles, CA: Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles
Lewis, J. (2019). On the line [Album]. Warner Bros. Records.
Lizzo. (2016). Good as hell [Song]. On Coconut oil. Nice Life Recording Company; Atlantic Records.
Owl Purdue Writing Lab. (n.d.). APA Formatting and Style Guide [PowerPoint slides]. Purdue Online Writing Lab. https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/apa_powerpoint_slide_presentation.html