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APA Style Guide: Audiovisual media

This guide explains how to use the APA Style. It includes a short tutorial.

Audiovisual Media


In-Text-Citation: 
  • Author Last name, Year)
Example:
  • Breathing and slow movement are highlighted in this video (Mischler, 2019).\
     

Note: Always use the Uploader’s name, even if different from the creator/author. If you wish to include the author/create also, you can, adding their role in brackets after their name.


Reference:

Uploader/Author Last name, Initials. [channel name if different/screen name]. (Year, Month Day). Title [Description]. YouTube/Platform name. URL

Example: 

Mischler, A. [Yoga with Adriene]. (2019, March 31). Office break yoga [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/M-8FvC3GD8c 


In-Text-Citation:
  • Writer/Speaker/Producer/Creator Last name (Year)
  • (Writer/Speaker/Producer/Creator Last name, Year)
Example:
  • Dr. Charterjee talks to Misconi about why women are twice as likely to develop alzheimer’s (2020)...
  • Dr. Charterjee asks Misconi to explain the developmental changes that happen to women’s brains (Charterjee, 2020).
     

Note: you can use the main organisation’s url if you think items will change location over time.


Reference:

Writer/Speaker/Producer/Creator Last name, Initial(s). (role). (Year, Month Day). Title of podcast episode (podcast no. if available) [Video/Audio podcast]. In Title of Podcast Series and platform. URL

Example:

Charterjee, R. (Host). (2020, October 28). Why Women Are More Likely to Develop Alzheimer’s with Dr Lisa Mosconi (No. 129). [Audio podcast episode]. In Feel Better, Live More. https://drchatterjee.com/why-women-are-more-likely-to-develop-alzheimers-with-dr-lisa-mosconi/


In-Text-Citation:
  • Director surname (Year)

  • (Director’s surname, year)
Example:
  • In this film Tarantino (1994) demonstrates...

  • In this film (Tarantino, 1994) he sought to…

Reference:   

Producer(s) Last name, Initials (Producer), Director(s) Last name Initials, Uploader’s Last name, Initials, & Host Last name, Initials. (Year). Title [Description]. Production company or Label or University Name. URL

Example:

Bender, L. A. (Producer) & Tarantino, Q. A. (Director). (1994). Pulp fiction [Film]. Miramax Films.


In-Text-Citation:
  • Director surname (Year)

  • (Director’s surname, year)

Example:
  • In this episode Hogarth (2020) demonstrates...

  • In this episode (Hogarth, 2020) it was sought to…


Reference:

Producer(s) Last name, Initials (Producer), Director(s) Last name Initials, Uploader’s Last name, Initials, & Host Last name, Initials. (Year, Month Day). Title of Episode (Season No., Episode No.) [Description]. In Initials, Name of Producer (Executive Producer), Title of Series Production company or Label. URL

Example:

Hogarth, C. T. (Writer & Director). (2020). Minimum impact (Season 1, Episode 2) [TV series episode]. In S. Creasy & G. Long (Executive Producers), Building a human brain. Oaktree Films, Burren Studios.


In-Text-Citation:
  • Author(s) Last name (year)
  • (Author(s) Last name, year)      
Example:
  • Madonna sings "Material Girl" (Brown & Rans, 1984)...
  • Madonna sings the Brown and Rand (1984) song "Material Girl"...


Note: for recordings with an original publication or composition date and a later recorded date, include both dates in the in-text-citation, e.g. (1801/2012).


Reference:

Author(s) Last name, Initials. (Year of version used). Title of song [Description recorded by name of recording artist if different]. On Title of album. Label. (Year of original composition). URL

Example:

Brown, P., & Rans, R. (1984). Material girl [Song recorded by Madonna]. On Like a Virgin. Sire Records.


In-Text-Citation: 
  • (Author Last name, Year)
Example:
  • Breathing and slow movement are highlighted in this video (Mischler, 2019).


Note: Always use the Uploader’s name, even if different from the creator/author. If you wish to include the author/create also, you can, adding their role in brackets after their name.


Reference: 

Uploader/Author Last name, Initials. [channel name if different/screen name]. (Year, Month Day). Title [Description]. YouTube/Platform name. URL

Example: 

Mischler, A. [Yoga with Adriene]. (2019, March 31). Office break yoga [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/M-8FvC3GD8c