AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGY ASSOCIATION (APA) 7TH EDITION
SAMPLE REFERENCE CITATIONS FOR TED Talk References
*The source of these reference samples is: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples
1. TED Talk from the TED website
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When the TED Talk comes from TED’s website, use the name of the speaker as the author.
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Provide as specific a date as possible; in the example, only the year and month are available.
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Include the description “[Video]” in square brackets after the title of the talk.
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Credit TED Conferences as the publisher of the TED Talk and then provide the URL.
TED Talk from YouTube
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When the TED Talk is on YouTube, list the owner of the YouTube account (here, TED) as the author to aid in retrieval.
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Provide as specific a date as possible.
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Include the description “[Video]” in square brackets after the title of the talk.
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Credit YouTube as the publisher of the TED Talk and then provide the URL.
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When the speaker is not listed as the author, integrate their name into the narrative if desired:
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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).
