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APA (7th Ed) Guide for ESL

Kanopy Streaming Media (Library Database)

Reference list

TEMPLATE

Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial. of the Director. (Year video was produced, Month). Title of Video [Video]. Production Company. Name of the Database. Persistent Link

EXAMPLE

Kleven, J. (Director). (2015). Sweatshop: Deadly fashion – Fashion bloggers spend time as garment workers in

     Cambodia [Video]. Java Films Exclusives. Kanopy. https://georgebrown.kanopy.com/video/sweatshop-deadly-

     fashion

Note: If you do not have the name of the director/creator’s name, then the name of the organization/company is used.
E.g. For the above example if you did not know that Kleven was the director you would use the name of the Film Company. 

Java Films Exclusives. (2015). Sweatshop: Deadly Fashion [Video]. Kanopy.

If no date is available use (n.d.)

 

In-text citation

TEMPLATE

(Author’s last name, year)

EXAMPLE

(Kleven, 2015)

 


You Tube (or other streaming media website)

Reference list

TEMPLATE

Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial. of person who posted the video if known. [User name that posted the video].

     (Year video was posted, Month/Day if given). Title of video.  Name of the website that the video was found on. Website URL

EXAMPLE

Brownlee, M. [Marques Brownlee]. (2015, March 27). Virtual Reality: Explained! [Video]. YouTube.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4Zt3JZejbg

 

In-text citation

TEMPLATE

(Author’s last name, year)

EXAMPLE

(Brownlee, 2015)

 

 


Ted Talks

Reference list

TEMPLATE

Speaker, Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial. (Year video was posted, Month Day if given). Title of talk [Video].  Website URL

EXAMPLE

Lythcott-Haims, J. (2015, November). How to raise successful kids  [Video]. TED Conferences.

   https://www.ted.com/talks/julie_lythcott_haims_how_to_raise_successful_kids_without_over_parenting?language=en

 

* if you find your TED talk on YouTube your citation will be a bit different- notice the different date

TED (2016, October 4). How to raise successful kids- without over-parenting Julie Lythcott-Haims  [Video]. 

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyElHdaqkjo

 

In-text citation (from TED website)

TEMPLATE

(Author’s last name, year)

EXAMPLE

(Lythcott-Haims, 2015)

 

In-text citation (from YouTube)

TEMPLATE

(Author’s last name, year)

EXAMPLE

(TED, 2016)