YouTube Citation Generator

Use the channel name as the author, then the upload date, the video title in italics and sentence case, the label [Video], YouTube as the site and the URL. For example: Channel Name. (2024, March 5). Title of the video [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=… If you know the real name of the person behind the channel, write Last, F. [Channel Name] instead.

In most styles it's the channel that uploaded the video. If the video was clearly made by a named person who isn't the channel (for example a speaker at an event), add their name in the creator fields. APA then shows the person with the channel in brackets, and MLA adds 'uploaded by' with the channel name.

APA and Harvard put titles in sentence case: only the first word, the first word after a colon and proper nouns are capitalised. The tool converts the title for you, but it can't tell which words are names, so check the sentence-case field and recapitalise names such as people, brands and places.

Add a timestamp. APA puts it in the in-text citation (Channel, 2024, 3:15), MLA uses hours, minutes and seconds ("Short Title" 00:03:15), and Chicago adds it to the footnote. If your link already has a timestamp, such as ?t=195, it's filled in automatically.

Private, deleted and some age-restricted videos don't share their details publicly. YouTube can also occasionally block automated requests. In those cases, open the video, copy the title, channel name and upload date into the fields, and the citation will build as you type.

Harvard and IEEE include one. MLA lists it only when there's no upload date, or if your instructor asks for it (there's a checkbox for that). APA and Chicago leave it out when the video has a date. The access date defaults to today.