Citing a DVD or Online Video/Webcast

 Laureate Education, Inc. (Producer). (year*). Program

number: Name of program [DVD]. In Name of

video in italics. Baltimore, MD: Author.

*In APA style, documents or media lacking dates will use the abbreviation n.d. in the in-text citation and in the reference list: (Laureate Education, Inc., n.d.)

Laureate DVDs should be cited using this template:

Laureate Education, Inc. (Producer). (year). Name of

program [DVD]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Laureate Education, Inc. (Producer). (year). Program number: Name

of program [Video webcast]. In Name of series

in italics.  Retrieved from http://www.courseurl.com/

 Laureate Education, Inc. (Producer). (year). Name

of program [Video webcast]. Retrieved

from http://www.courseurl.com

The web location for Laureate course videos is not directly retrievable without a Walden password. However, because your readers will consist mainly of members of the Walden community, we recommend using the direct URL.  This recommendation is consistent with our suggested format for citing other Walden resources.

You will often cite several videos within the same paper. To distinguish these from one another, use the standard APA procedure. Alphabetize the sources by title in your reference list, and then assign each year a letter: a, b, and so on.  Use these letters when giving the year in the in-text citation for the corresponding reference list entry:

 …end of your sentence (Laureate Education, Inc., 2010a).

 Laureate Education, Inc. (Producer). (2010a)…

 Laureate Education, Inc. (Producer). (2010b)...

The in-text citation for a DVD or online video should use the name that is in the author slot in the reference list. In most cases, this means the producer (usually Laureate Education, Inc.) gets the citation, not the person speaking. If the speaker or the title of the video is necessary, it should appear in the text of the sentence rather than in the parentheses. Here are two examples of how this might look:

In a taped interview, Gibson (Laureate Education, Inc., 2012) said the biggest challenge of his career as a high school principal was learning how to negotiate parent expectations.

In the video Nursing in the Margins (Laureate Education, Inc., 2011), several Austin-area nurses described the challenges of adequately serving patients within the limited time frames allowed by insurance companies.

Note 1.  Although it is not usually necessary to cite a video title in the text, there are some guidelines for doing so. If the source gets italics in the reference list, use italics when you present it in the text. So, if Nursing in the Margins was the name of a series or of a stand-alone program, it would be in italics in the text. If it were a video that is part of a larger series, it would not be in italics in the reference list (the italics would be saved for the series title), and it would receive quotation marks in the text instead. 

Note 2.  In the APA manual, direct quotes from print sources must have page numbers or paragraph numbers. Because a video/DVD program has no page numbers to refer to, page numbers cannot appear with quotations. Your readers will recognize that the quotation comes from a nonprint source. Still, as a habit of good scholarship, try to minimize the number of direct quotes in any academic writing, relying instead on your ability to paraphrase your sources.

Cite recorded webinars or online presentations as you would an online video or webcast (see above for examples).

Cite presentation files (such as PowerPoints) as you would a standard PowerPoint.  See this page for an example!