APA 7th edition
How to cite a podcast episode in APA 7th edition
A podcast episode is a part of a series, so it needs the same host/producer distinction as a book chapter — plus an episode number that is easy to miss.
THE FORMAT
A podcast episode in APA, at a glance
Host, A. A. (Host). (Year, Month Day). Title of the episode (No. xx) [Audio podcast episode]. In Title of the Podcast. Production Company. https://example.org/episode
Marlowe, J. (Host). (2024, February 5). Writing under a deadline you didn’t choose (No. 47) [Audio podcast episode]. In The Draft Table. Fen Street Audio. https://thedrafttable.fm/47
(Marlowe, 2024)
In prose: Marlowe (2024) opens the episode with three writers describing the same missed deadline.
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BEFORE YOU FORMAT
What APA needs from a podcast episode
Elements to collect
- Host or producer, with their role in parentheses
- Date the episode was released
- Title of the individual episode
- Episode number, when the series uses them
- Title of the podcast series
- Production company or network
- URL
Rules specific to this entry
- The host’s role goes in parentheses after the name — (Host), or (Executive producer) when you are citing the whole series rather than one episode.
- The episode title is upright sentence case and the series title is italicized after “In”, the same part-and-whole logic as a chapter inside a book.
- The episode number sits in parentheses after the title and before the bracketed format: (No. 47) [Audio podcast episode]. Skip it entirely when the series does not number episodes.
- Quote a moment with a timestamp rather than a page: (Marlowe, 2024, 18:03).
Building the entry, step by step
Collect the details
Before you format anything, gather every element APA needs for a podcast episode: Host or producer, with their role in parentheses; Date the episode was released; Title of the individual episode; Episode number, when the series uses them.
Build the references entry
Arrange those details in the APA order: Host, A. A. (Host). (Year, Month Day). Title of the episode (No. xx) [Audio podcast episode]. In Title of the Podcast. Production Company. https://example.org/episode
Add the in-text citation
In the body of your paper, cite it as (Marlowe, 2024) — or work the same reference into your sentence as Marlowe (2024) opens the episode with three writers describing the same missed deadline..
Check it against the exceptions
The host’s role goes in parentheses after the name — (Host), or (Executive producer) when you are citing the whole series rather than one episode.
APA RULES
The conventions behind every APA entry
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.) is the authority. Where a journal or department publishes its own house rules, those win — check your submission guidelines before the references is final.
The rules that apply across every source — author order, capitalization, how the references is sorted, and where APA entries most often go wrong — are collected on the APA 7th edition guide.
The same podcast episode in another style
Switching styles late in a draft is normal. Here is the same source formatted five other ways.
Questions about APA and podcast episodes
What if the podcast episode has no author?
Move the title into the author position and alphabetize by the first significant word of that title — ignoring an initial “A”, “An” or “The”. In the text, use a shortened form of the title where the author name would go.
What do I need before I can cite a podcast episode?
Host or producer, with their role in parentheses, Date the episode was released, Title of the individual episode, and the rest of the elements listed above. A podcast episode is a part of a series, so it needs the same host/producer distinction as a book chapter — plus an episode number that is easy to miss.
Is there anything unusual about a podcast episode in APA?
The host’s role goes in parentheses after the name — (Host), or (Executive producer) when you are citing the whole series rather than one episode.
What else catches people out here?
The episode title is upright sentence case and the series title is italicized after “In”, the same part-and-whole logic as a chapter inside a book.
Can I reformat this podcast episode in another style later?
By hand, you would retype the entry — the element order, punctuation and italics all differ between styles. In Copyeditor, sources are stored as structured data, so switching between APA, MLA, Chicago and IEEE reformats every citation and the whole reference list at once.
Cite it once
and never reformat it again
Copyeditor keeps sources as structured data, so switching between APA, MLA, Chicago and IEEE reformats every citation and the whole references at once.
