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APA 7 referencing style: Music and audiovisual resources

A guide to using the APA 7th edition referencing system for in-text citations and reference lists.

APA examples: Music and audiovisual resources

 

See our APA7 Style Guidelines for advice on treatment of single to multiple authors, dates, page numbers and sources within your in-text and end-text references.  

See The APA Style Blog for more audio visual referencing examples.  

Material Type

In-Text Citation

Reference List & Notes

Musical score (Haydn, 1798/2001)

Haydn, F. J. (2001). The creation [Musical score]. Dover Publications. (Original work published 1798)

Musical score in another language (Mozart, 1791/1970)

Mozart, W. A. (1970). Die Zauberflöte [The magic flute] [Vocal score]. Becksche Verlagsbuchhandlung. (Original work published 1791)

Film (Fleming, 1939)

Fleming, V. (Director). (1939). Gone with the wind [Film]. Selznick International Pictures; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Powerpoint slides from learning management system (Mack & Spake, 2018)

Mack, R., & Spake, G. (2018). Citing open source images and formatting references for presentations [PowerPoint slides]. Canvas@FNU. https://fnu.onelogin.com/login 

TED talk from YouTube (TED, 2019)

TED. (2019, November 13). The danger of AI is weirder than you think | Janelle Shane [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhCzXOiLnOc

YouTube video (Harvard University, 2019)

Harvard University. (2019, August 28). Soft robotic gripper for jellyfish [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guRoWTYfxMs