This page contains reference examples for Ted Talks, including the following:
Cuddy, A. (2012, June). Your body language may shape who you are [Video]. Ted Conferences. https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_may_shape_who_you_are
- Parenthetical citation: (Cuddy, 2012)
- Narrative citation: Cuddy (2012)
- When the Ted Talk comes from Ted’s website, use the name of the speaker as the author.
- Provide as specific a date as possible; in the example, only the year and month are available.
- Include the description “[Video]” in square brackets after the title of the talk.
- Credit Ted Conferences as the publisher of the Ted Talk and then provide the URL.
Ted. (2019, November 13). The danger of AI is weirder than you think | Janelle Shane [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhCzX0iLnOc
- Parenthetical citation: (TED, 2019)
- Narrative citation: TED (2019)
- When the Ted Talk is on YouTube, list the owner of the YouTube account (here, Ted) as the author to aid in retrieval.
- Provide as specific a date as possible.
- Include the description “[Video]” in square brackets after the title of the talk.
- Credit YouTube as the publisher of the Ted Talk and then provide the URL.
- When the speaker is not listed as the author, integrate their name into the narrative if desired:
- 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).
Ted Talk references are covered in Section 10.12 of the APA Publication Manual, Seventh Edition
This guidance is new to the 7th edition.