The document provides guidelines for citing various types of sources in APA 7th edition format, including specific parts of a source, personal communications, films, TV series, TED talks, and blog posts. It emphasizes the importance of including detailed information such as publication date, description, and publisher information, along with proper citation formats for narrative and parenthetical citations. Additionally, it outlines the process for referencing quotations and ensuring accuracy in citations.

1. APA 7th
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citations
BINDU RANAUT

3. Citing Specific Parts
of a Source
• To cite a specific part of a source,
provide an author–date citation for
the work plus information about the
specific part. A part might be a
page, chapter, table, or video time
stamp.

4. (World Health Organization, 2019, p. 202)
(Merenda, 2018, Chapter 3)
(Graver, 2019, pp. 3–11)
(Bassie & Meagher, 2020, paras. 4–5)
(Lazer, 2019, Table 3)
(American Psychological Association,
2019, 1:09:19)

5. Citing Personal Communications in the
Text
Narrative citation: E.-M. Paradis (personal
communication, August 8, 2019)
Parenthetical citation: (T. Nguyen, personal
communication, February 24, 2020)

6. 1. Film or movie
Fleming, V. (Director). (1939). Gone with the
wind [Film]. Selznick International Pictures; Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer.
•Parenthetical citation: (Fleming, 1939)
•Narrative citation: Fleming (1939)

7. TV series
Serling, R. (Executive Producer). (1959–
1964). The twilight zone [TV series]. Cayuga
Productions; CBS Productions.
•Parenthetical citation: (Serling, 1959–1964)
•Narrative citation: Serling (1959–1964)

8. Episode of a TV show
Favreau, J. (Writer), & Filoni, D. (Director). (2019, November 12). Chapter
1 (Season 1, Episode 1) [TV series episode]. In J. Favreau, D. Filoni, K.
Kennedy, & C. Wilson (Executive Producers), The Mandalorian. Lucasfilm;
Golem Creations.
Sherman-Palladino, A. (Writer & Director). (2018, December 5). All alone
(Season 2, Episode 10) [TV series episode]. In A. Sherman-Palladino, D.
Palladino, D. Gilbert, M. Shapiro, S. Carino, & S. Lawrence (Executive
Producers), The marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Dorothy Parker Drank Here
Productions; Picrow; Amazon Studios.
•Parenthetical citations: (Favreau & Filoni, 2019; Sherman-Palladino,

9. TED Talk from the TED website
Cuddy, A. (2012, June). Your body language may shape who you are [Video].
TED Conferences. https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are
Parenthetical citation: (Cuddy, 2012)
Narrative citation: Cuddy (2012)
•When the TED Talk comes from TED’s website, use the name of the speaker
as the author.
•Provide as specific a date as possible; in the example, only the year and month
are available.
•Include the description “[Video]” in square brackets after the title of the talk.
•Credit TED Conferences as the publisher of the TED Talk and then provide the
URL.

10. TED Talk from YouTube
• TED. (2019, November 13). The danger of AI is weirder than you think | Janelle Shane [Video].
YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhCzX0iLnOc
• Parenthetical citation: (TED, 2019)
• Narrative citation: TED (2019)
•When the TED Talk is on YouTube, list the owner of the YouTube account (here, TED) as the author to aid in
retrieval.
•Provide as specific a date as possible.
•Include the description “[Video]” in square brackets after the title of the talk.
•Credit YouTube as the publisher of the TED Talk and then provide the URL.
•When the speaker is not listed as the author, integrate their name into the narrative if desired:
• Shane explained that the artificial intelligence technically “did what they asked it to do—they just
accidentally asked it to do the wrong thing” (TED, 2019, 8:51).

11. PROVIDE THE SPECIFIC
DATE ON WHICH THE
VIDEO WAS UPLOADED.
ITALICIZE THE TITLE OF
THE VIDEO.
INCLUDE THE
DESCRIPTION “[VIDEO]”
IN SQUARE BRACKETS
AFTER THE TITLE.
PROVIDE THE SITE NAME
(YOUTUBE) AND URL OF
THE VIDEO.
YouTube video
Harvard University. (2019, August 28). Soft robotic gripper for jellyfish [Video].
YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guRoWTYfxMs
•Parenthetical citation: (Harvard University, 2019)
•Narrative citation: Harvard University (2019)

12. YouTube channel
APA Publishing Training. (n.d.). Home [YouTube channel]. Retrieved
February 20,
2020, from https://www.youtube.com/user/PsycINFO/
Walker, A. (n.d.). Playlists [YouTube channel]. YouTube. Retrieved
October 8, 2019, from https://www.youtube.com/user/DjWalkzz/playlists
•Parenthetical citations: (APA Publishing Training, n.d.; Walker, n.d.)
•Narrative citations: APA Publishing Training (n.d.) and Walker (n.d.)
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13. YOUTUBE CHANNEL PAGES BEGIN ON THE “HOME” TAB BY
DEFAULT. IF YOU WANT TO CITE ONE OF THE OTHER TABS (E.G.,
“VIDEOS,” “PLAYLISTS”), USE THE NAME OF THAT TAB RATHER
THAN “HOME” IN THE TITLE ELEMENT OF THE REFERENCE (AS
IN THE WALKER EXAMPLE).
ITALICIZE THE TITLE OF THE CHANNEL.
INCLUDE THE DESCRIPTION “[YOUTUBE CHANNEL]” IN SQUARE
BRACKETS AFTER THE TITLE.
PROVIDE A RETRIEVAL DATE BECAUSE THE CONTENT IS
DESIGNED TO CHANGE OVER TIME AND IS NOT ARCHIVED.

14. Blog post
Ouellette, J. (2019, November 15). Physicists capture
first footage of quantum knots unraveling in
superfluid. Ars
Technica. https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/stud
y-you-can-tie-a-quantum-knot-in-a-superfluid-but-it-will-
soon-untie-itself/
•Parenthetical citation: (Ouellette, 2019)
•Narrative citation: Ouellette (2019)
•Blog posts follow the same format as journal articles.
•Italicize the name of the blog, the same as you would a

15. Comment on a blog post
joachimr. (2019, November 19). We are relying on
APA as our university style format - the university is
located in Germany (Kassel). So I [Comment on the
blog post “The transition to seventh edition APA
Style”]. APA
Style. https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/transition-
seventh-edition#comment-4694866690
•Parenthetical citation: (joachimr, 2019)
•Narrative citation: joachimr (2019)

16. •Cite the person who left the comment as the author
using the format that appears with the comment
(i.e., a real name or a username). The example
shows a username.
•Provide the comment title or up to the first 20 words
of the comment; then write “Comment on the blog
post” and the full title of post on which the comment
appeared (in quotation marks and sentence case,
enclosed within square brackets).
•Link to the comment itself if possible. Otherwise,
link to the blog post.

17. Quotations
•include page numbers for quotations
•cite quotations from material without page
numbers
•cite quotations that include errors
•indicate changes to quotations

18. SHORT QUOTATION
Effective teams can be difficult
to describe because “high
performance along one domain
does not translate to high
performance along another”

19. Researchers have studied how people talk to
themselves:
Inner speech is a paradoxical phenomenon. It is an
experience that is central to many people’s
everyday lives, and yet it presents considerable
challenges to any effort to study it scientifically.
Nevertheless, a wide range of methodologies and
approaches have combined to shed light on the
subjective experience of inner speech and its cognitive
and neural underpinnings. (Alderson-Day &
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