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How to cite a podcast in APA 7

A podcast reference credits the host (or executive producer) as author, italicizes the show title with a bracketed label after it, and closes with the production company and a link. A whole show and a single episode are cited differently — this page shows the show form.

A worked example

Roman Mars’s 99% Invisible — a real show you can open at that URL.

Reference list entry

Mars, R. (2010). 99% Invisible [Audio podcast]. Radiotopia. https://99percentinvisible.org/

In-text citation

(Mars, 2010)

Why it looks like this

You identified this as a podcast.

Author: Mars, R. — A single author is written family name first, with given names reduced to initials.
Title treatment: “99% Invisible” is italicized — A podcast stands on its own, so APA italicizes its title.
Date: (2010) — Scholarly, slow-cycle sources take the year alone — a full day-level date is reserved for fast-cycle sources like newspapers, magazines, and webpages.
Publisher: Radiotopia — APA 7 lists only the publisher’s name — no city of publication, unlike Turabian.
Retrieval link: https://99percentinvisible.org/ — No DOI is on record, so the URL is used instead — also with no trailing period.

Easily confused with

whole podcast series: If this were a whole podcast series instead, there would be no separate container to name at all.

What Citeory checks on a podcast

These are the checks the engine runs on this source type — a reference missing any of them is flagged before you paste it into a paper:

Missing author(s) — required for podcast sources.
Missing year — required for podcast sources.
Missing title — required for podcast sources.

Citeory also verifies the source exists — records are checked against Crossref, DataCite, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar and PubMed, so a reference that cannot be found anywhere is flagged rather than formatted. The citation above was produced by that same rules engine, not written by hand and not generated by AI.

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