[Air-l] citing a podcast

[Lois Ann Scheidt]

I haven't cited a podcast yet for publication but I have given some 
thought to how I will do it when the time comes.  In these situations I 
tend to look at the choices available in my Reference Manager 
(http://www.refman.com/) bibliographic software and the APA Style 
Manual.  The best fit I've seen is "Motion Picture" in refmgr or 
"single episode from a television series" in the Style Manual.  The 
structure would be as follows, I'm using the example from the Style 
Manual so it would need to be reworked for the individual podcast 
including adding the URL.

Hall, B. (Writer) & Bender, J. (Director).  (1991).  The rules of the 
game (Television series episode).  In J. Sander (Producer), "I'll fly 
away."  New York:  New York Broadcasting Company.

Maybe like this(?) assuming a single writer/director/producer/etc:

Brake, D.  (2006).  Citing podcasts (Podcast episode).  In "Podcast 
name."  London.  Retrieved August 2, 2006 from  ****.

As for whole blogs and individual posts, I use Magazine format with the 
URL added.  Whole blogs equal whole magazines and posts equal 
individual articles within the magazine.

I like Alex's point about linking to archived resources, when possible. 
  The new version of EndNote (http://www.endnote.com/) allows for 
multiple URL citation which would be useful when both the original and 
an archived version are available.  Maybe that could be cited as 
follows:

Retrieved August 2, 2006 from http://***.  Archive copy available at 
http://***.

Finally, I save a personal archive copy of anything I plug into the 
citation software.  That way I can provide a copy of the page, if 
needed.  If the work is no longer available online I usually note that 
in a footnote.  The new copy of EndNote allows you to create compressed 
libraries of linked files.  Nice features maybe nice enough to make it 
worth changing software.

Lois Ann Scheidt

Doctoral Student - School of Library and Information Science, Indiana
University, Bloomington IN USA

Future Faculty Teaching Fellow (2005-2006) - School of Informatics, Indiana
University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indianapolis IN USA

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