Lecture, speech, or address (APA)

APA-149

Reference list entries

Donovan, S. (2012, June 12). Assisted housing mobility in challenging times [Video file]. Address at the 5th National Conference on Assisted Housing Mobility, Urban Institute, Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://www.urban.org/events/HUD-Secretary-Shaun-Donovan-Speaks-on-Housing-Mobility.cfm

Verghese, A. (2012, December 6). Colonialism and patterns of ethnic conflict in contemporary India. Address at the Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

Explain

  • Begin with the name of the presenter and the date.
  • Italicize the title of the presentation.
  • Follow the title with a label identifying the type of presentation (address, lecture, speech, and so on), and end with details about the location of the presentation.
  • If the presentation was in the form of a video, as in the first example, add that information in brackets following the title. End with the URL that leads readers directly to the presentation.

Note on breaking URLs and DOIs

  • If you must break a URL or a DOI at the end of a line, break it after a double slash or before any other mark of punctuation.
  • Do not add a hyphen.
  • Do not put a period at the end of the entry.

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APA-150

Video or audio on the Web