How to Cite an APA Webinar Style – this post will provide you with the necessary information to cite your webinar in APA format.
Webinars are very popular lately and so are webinar platforms, no wonder since webinar stats are through the roof! So it’s only a matter of time when one of these webinars would be the perfect resource for your research and dissertation.
In this post, I’ll explain how to cite your APA webinar and make sure your paper is supported by references, in-text citations, a reference list, and examples.
What is an APA style citation?
APA stands for American Psychological Association. It is a style of referencing and reporting that has been accepted as the gold standard in academic writing for more than 75 years, especially in the social sciences such as psychology.
An APA citation is an abbreviated version of the full citation information for an academic or published source. This format includes the author’s name, year of publication, document title (italics), and pagination in parentheses.
Examples: Smith (2016) How to Cite a Webinar – Google Docs? Woolfitt-Johnson et
How to Cite an APA Citation Style in a Webinar?
If you need to create an American Psychological Association style citation in the webinar, you should include similar information as with a regular APA citation.
An APA webinar citation is like a regular APA citation, but the only difference may be that there are no page numbers in parentheses, as you may not be able to cite specific pages or slides for a webinar because they change or are difficult to cite when the information was given verbally.
Otherwise, the webinar report is very similar. When creating a webinar reference style report, this is the information you should include from the video:
- Author’s first initial, last name, or organization that hosted the webinar
- Put the word producer in parentheses after the author
- The date of the webinar.
- A title or name of the webinar in italics.
- Page numbers are not included because you cannot reference specific pages or slides from a web presentation that change each time you view it.
- Date of publication or when last updated;
- The name of the webinar in italics.
- In square brackets, put the media description (so webinar or video).
- Where can the recording or so-called recovery information be accessed
APA webinar reference example:
CostOfIncome.com, (Producer). (2021). How to report a webinar [Video].
How to Cite a PowerPoint Presentation APA Style?
Alternatively, you may want to refer to just a PowerPoint presentation rather than an entire webinar. Here’s how you would do it:
- Author’s first initial, last name or authoring organization;
- The date of publication or date of last update;
- A title or name of the presentation (slides) in italics.
- In brackets, put the description of the medium (presentation)
- Where can the presentation be accessed?
After that, you can add some additional resources or information that you have.
Example PowerPoint APA reference:
CostOfIncome.com, (2021). How to report a webinar [Powerpoint slides].
When to use an APA Webinar report
Now we know how to cite a webinar in APA style, but when should you do it?
There are a few scenarios where you might want to address your webinar. One is if it’s for educational purposes and you list the presenter as a subject matter expert.
The other scenario where you might need to do this is when you’re referring to someone else talking about something that was discussed in your webinar.
As a general rule, if you include any idea that is not the result of your intellectual work but comes from another source – you should mention it.
Why is it important to cite your sources?
It is very difficult to list every webinar and online PowerPoint presentation you see. So why do it?
Just as you would ask the company that makes your shirt “who designed this?”, you should do the same with anything that is someone else’s intellectual work.
It increases accountability and transparency so people can know how to give credit. By citing, it allows others to know where an idea came from and whether or not they consider the source to be credible
What are the consequences of not reporting?
Attribution ensures that the work you do is yours. If you take an idea from someone else and pass it off as your own, even if no one catches the mistake or knows who did what, the fact that you didn’t mention it means a lack of credit for the original author and a lack of integrity on your part.
In the news, you have many cases of high-profile people being caught plagiarizing and sometimes even being fired.
Citation and reference tips
Here are some tips to help you when citing a webinar and when citing other sources.
When in doubt, use more information. If your source is video or audio based and you have a screenshot of it, this may be enough to provide the reference for what was on the screen but not heard. If no screenshot is available, enter the recording date (DD/MM/YY HH:mm) followed by the title.
Citation of authors should be in the following format – Author Last Name, Initial.
Publication information for video and audio-based sources should be listed as follows: Publication information (publisher or company), Year of publication, How to cite an APA webinar (for example, a DVD version)
The webinar date should be listed as the event date and the time should be listed as an hour followed by minutes. Fisherman, D., & Smith-Williams, M. How to Cite an APA Webinar (presentation July 12, 2021 at 2 p.m.).
conclusion
I hope this post has provided you with the necessary information to cite your webinar in APA format and all the day-of-the-year title structures you need to do so.
Although citations may seem like a lot of work, proper use of citations is very important as it supports your research and ensures that you credit all the correct sources and webinars.
Credibility and integrity play a huge role in your work as a scholar or researcher, even a small lie or pretending that someone else’s idea is yours can ruin the whole study.
In this post, we went in depth on the APA webinar citing, if there is interest, I can also prepare an MLA webinar citation guide.
