PSY 214 - West - Abnormal Psychology: Citing in Powerpoint Presentations

Designing an Effective PowerPoint Presentation: Quick Guide from the OWL: Purdue Online Writng Lab.

APA does not offer specific advice on how to cite within a PowerPoint.  But one can assume that a PowerPoint is simply a paper and that all the rules that apply to a paper apply to the PowerPoint.  In-text citations (or parenthetical citations) point your viewer to specific entries on the References page.

With that said, general rules must be followed.

• One must create parenthetical citations whenever you quote, paraphrase, or summarize information from another source.
• The parenthetical citations is generally located at the end of the sentence (before the period), or as close as possible to the text which you quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.  
• One must create parenthetical citations for all graphics used.
• The PowerPoint presentation must have a slide that is the References page .  Normally this would be the last slide.
• References on the slide are formatted exactly as they would be formatted for the References page of a paper. 

Below is a Sample PowerPoint in which APA format is used.  Remember that the placement of the parenthetical citation on a slide is not absolute.  However, it should be apparent to the viewer where the information is coming from. 

In APA a Youtube video is best cited as a video blog post.