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How to cite websites, journal articles, books, videos, and more in APA 7th edition, with reference-list and in-text examples for each.
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How to Cite a Website in APA 7
Cite a webpage in APA 7 §10.16. Official Toner–Bologna–Roberts news examples (BET, not BET News), WHO and NIMH group authors, n.d., copyright-footer dates, retrieval dates, and leftover Style Center reprints.
How to Cite a Journal Article in APA 7
Cite a journal article in APA 7: DOI versus database versus URL, article numbers without issues, missing volume data, retracted papers, special issues, and UpToDate. Official §10.1 wording plus live Niepel, Grady, Pope, Schlesselmann, Bosco, and Joly examples.
How to Cite a Book in APA 7
Cite print books, ebooks, edited chapters, audiobooks, and republished books in APA 7. Official §10.2 and §10.3 Jackson–Sapolsky–Svendsen wording, leftover-Urdan-missing-comma, leftover-Cain-bitly-404, leftover-Watson-a.co-amazon, and leftover-OWL-eBook-edition.
How to Cite a Newspaper Article in APA 7
Cite print, online, database, unsigned, and wire-service newspaper stories in APA 7. Official §10.1 wording, Carey–Harlan–Stobbe and Bernstein–Reynolds examples, the Toner-versus-Times italic test, and last-updated versus last-reviewed dates.
How to Cite a Magazine Article in APA 7
Cite print, online, database, and DOI magazine articles in APA 7. Official §10.1 wording, Lyons–Schaefer–Schulman, Thomson, Nicholl, and Kluger, plus the leftovers: Lyons’s live Newsweek headline and June 5 web date, Toner’s Style Center date versus CNN’s June 4 byline, and Purdue’s month-only Peterzell.
How to Cite Social Media Posts in APA 7
Cite X, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, LinkedIn, and Bluesky in APA 7 §10.15. Official Gates, Obama, News From Science, Cook, The Rock, Associated Press, and Little examples, plus the empty-bio TikTok profile and month-only LinkedIn date.
How to Cite a YouTube Video in APA 7
Cite a YouTube video, Short, or channel tab in APA 7 §10.12. Official Asian Boss, Harvard, Above The Noise, Cuddy, and Shane examples, TED.com versus YouTube authorship, timestamps, unarchived livestreams, and leftover Style Center reprints.
How to Cite a Podcast in APA 7
Cite a podcast episode or series in APA 7 §10.13. Official Style Center Code Switch, Small Doses, 1619, and Radiolab samples, the Santos n.d. leftover versus the live Pushkin date, transcripts that keep (Host), and timestamp rules.
How to Cite a Conference Paper in APA 7
Cite proceedings, talks, posters, abstracts, and symposium contributions in APA 7. Official §10.5 templates, Evans, Davidson, De Boer, Duckworth, and Bedenel examples, leftover 2019-video and SPP node/726 404s, and the published-versus-presented test.
How to Cite a Dissertation or Thesis in APA 7
Cite a ProQuest, repository, or print dissertation in APA 7. Official §10.6 and §9.30 wording, Horvath-Plyman, Kabir, Risto, Miranda, Harris now in Libra ETD, and when unpublished no longer applies.
How to Cite a Government Report in APA 7
Cite agency reports, CRS products, numbered technical reports, and WHO publications in APA 7. Official §10.4 templates, the NCES 2024-versus-2026 title-page test, and real NCI, NASA, GAO, and CRS examples.
How to Cite an Interview in APA 7
Cite published, personal, and research-participant interviews in APA 7. Recoverability decides the path: Chapter 10 for a recoverable container, §8.9 in the text only, or §8.36 with no citation. Official §8.7 wording, Paradis–Nguyen, Bustillos–Glass–de Beauvoir, and the 29 May 2026 Alamo reprints.
How to Cite a Lecture or PowerPoint in APA 7
Cite an unrecorded class lecture, Canvas or Blackboard slides, a public PowerPoint, and untitled lecture notes in APA 7. Recoverability test, §§8.8–8.9 and §10.14, plus Mack, Jones, Canan, and Avadhanula.
How to Cite a Film or TV Show in APA 7
Cite a movie, documentary, TV series, or episode in APA 7 §10.12. Live Style Center Verrette and Alfredson strings, handbook Forman–Jackson–Barris–Malle, the 3 March 2026 Mann and Dippold lines, timestamps, and streaming rules.
How to Cite an Image, Photograph, or Artwork in APA 7
APA 7 §10.14 leftover rewrite: live Style Center van Gogh first example, Wood's 301 URL, Lava the Sled Dog versus Lava, the omitted Design for Eternity URL, the Martinez Louvre 404, Pixabay's striped cat, and the 9 September 2025 AI figure-note sentence.
How to Cite a Data Set in APA 7
APA 7 §10.9 for archived files and unpublished raw data: O'Donohue, D'Souza, NCES, and Pew examples, the 3 March 2026 ICPSR 21600 handout mismatch, and when to cite the article or report instead of the file.