Referencing a clip

Carstuck

Hi,

Has anyone any idea how to referencee a clip from You Tube following the Harvard reference style?

Thanks,

Zillah

Is it a clip taken from another publication or is it literally an original video published solely on youtube?

If the former, then find out the publishing details for the original. If the latter...no idea, but I suspect anything requiring formal referencing would look unfavourably on a youtube reference.

dawvee

Zillah wrote: »

If the latter...no idea, but I suspect anything requiring formal referencing would look unfavourably on a youtube reference.

Not necessarily. If Carstuck is referencing the work as primary source material it's perfectly valid. You could even cite the comments on a Youtube video if you wanted, it just has to be treated as an object of study and not an authoritative source. Not every citation has to be of a scholarly or secondary work.

I couldn't find anything specifically relating to citing online video in Harvard reference style, but the catch-all webpage reference should fit, including the date you accessed the site in your research, since sites can and will change over time.

Carstuck

dawvee wrote: »

Not necessarily. If Carstuck is referencing the work as primary source material it's perfectly valid. You could even cite the comments on a Youtube video if you wanted, it just has to be treated as an object of study and not an authoritative source. Not every citation has to be of a scholarly or secondary work.

I couldn't find anything specifically relating to citing online video in Harvard reference style, but the catch-all webpage reference should fit, including the date you accessed the site in your research, since sites can and will change over time.

What is the ' catch-all webpage reference'? The referencee is relating this advertisement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uplVGF9OGI4. Thanks

dawvee

Here's an example I found from the DCU site:

World Health Organization 2009. Recommended use of antivirals. [Online]. Available from: http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/notes/h1n1_use_antivirals_20090820/en/index.html [Accessed 10 September 2009].

In this case, since it's an advertisement, I would credit Lucozade or GlaxoSmithKline (the company that owns the Lucozade brand) instead of the youtube user who posted the video. Zillah's suggestion here is good, as the work is only on Youtube from another source (a TV ad). In the above template, you could always replaced [Online] with [Online video] for clarity. Also, it's probably a good idea to put the date of the source as the original air date of the ad on TV, rather than the date it was uploaded to Youtube.

With this kind of thing it's really just playing it by ear, since most style guides don't even try to cover every possibility. As long as it's clear from the citation what it is you're referencing and the information is accurate, you should be fine. Bottom line, if your professor (or publisher, as the case may be) is satisfied, you're good.

Carstuck

Many thanks dawvee,