Hi Isabel,

Yes, if you’re quoting or referring to particular moment in the episode, and timestamps are available, then you should add one to identify the part you’re referring to.

Hi Brandy,

You should include the full air date for a TV episode in your reference list, yes, but APA still recommends using letters to distinguish between in-text citations, rather than adding extra detail to the date. So your in-text citations would be “2009a”, etc., and the dates in your reference entries would be e.g. “2009a, January 15”. The lettering should be in chronological order, but the full date isn’t added to the in-text citation, just the letter.

Hope that helps!

Regarding in-text citations, I am citing multiple episodes of the same tv show which fall in the same year. The first writer is the same so it will be (Daniels et al., 2009). My question is how do I distinguish between the in-text citations so that my reader knows which episode on the reference list I am referring to?

I am able to add either a/b/c as I have done in the past with multiple citations with same author/year, but I am wondering if in my in-text I should instead be adding the air date- for instance, (Daniels et al., 2009 January 15)

Thank you

Hi Emily,

Based on the examples in the APA 7th edition manual, they recommend just including the full years regardless of their being in the same century/decade or not. So your example would be 1942–1943. Note that an en dash (–) is recommended for numerical ranges, not a hyphen (-).

What about APA 7th style for a year range within the same century included in the text?

1942-1943
or
1942-42