Citing Media

Audiovisual media are covered in Sections 10.12–10.14 of the Publication Manual. The most common examples are presented on this guide. In the manual, these examples and more are separated into categories for audiovisual, audio, and visual media.

In-Text Citations

APA Style directs you to use the author's last name and the page number you are referring to for your in-text citations. 
          Ex: (Sommers, 27)

In many cases, your media sources will not provide an author or page numbers.

• If the source does not provide author information, use the title (or the first word or two of the title) instead of the author name.
• If the source does not include page numbers, include only the author's name (or the title, if there is no author)
  • If your media resource has a runtime (e.g. a movie, song, podcast, etc.), include the range of time within the resource as hours, minutes, and seconds instead of page numbers.
    • For example: (00:03:22-01:05:18) to specify minute 3 and 22 seconds through hour 1, minute 5, and 18 seconds.

Additional Resources

APA Style Team. (2020, March 19). What's new in the seventh edition publication manual. APA Style Blog. https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/whats-new-7e

Myers, M., Paiz, J., Angeli, E., Wagner, J., Lawrick, E., Moore, K., Anderson, M.,…Keck, R. (2019, December 20). General format. Purdue Online Writing Lab. https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html  

Selander, E. (2018). Formatting your paper. APA 7 Citation Style Guide. https://libguides.nvcc.edu/APACitationStyle