When it comes to citing a video embedded in an online article, you have options. One option is to create a works-cited-list entry for the video itself. If you select this method, the works-cited-list entry will be composed of two containers: the article is the container of the video, and the website is the container of the article. For clarity, you may choose to indicate the medium of the source in the final supplemental element. For example:
“Artist and Producer Suzannah Powell Celebrates the Krewe of Freret’s First Plastic Bead Free Mardi Gras on Her Float.” “Rubbish and Revelry: Can Mardi Gras Go ‘Green’?,” by Lynn Brown, 4 Mar. 2025. BBC, www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250304-can-mardi-gras-go-green. Video.
Using this method, you can direct readers to the video using an in-text citation:
Clad in a bright-pink suit and sporting a head full of curlers, the New Orleans–based musician Suzannah Powell celebrated the Krewe of Feret parade’s banning of plastic beads (“Artist”).
“Artist and Producer Suzannah Powell Celebrates the Krewe of Freret’s First Plastic Bead Free Mardi Gras on Her Float.” “Rubbish and Revelry: Can Mardi Gras Go ‘Green’?,” by Lynn Brown, 4 Mar. 2025. BBC, www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250304-can-mardi-gras-go-green. Video.
A second option is to create a works-cited-list entry for the article:
Brown, Lynn. “Rubbish and Revelry: Can Mardi Gras Go ‘Green’?” BBC, 4 Mar. 2025, www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250304-can-mardi-gras-go-green.
You can then use an in-text citation to direct readers to the article while clarifying in your prose that you refer specifically to a video. For example:
A video of the New Orleans–based musician Suzannah Powell shows the performer celebrating a big first step toward a more environmentally conscious Mardi Gras (Brown).
Brown, Lynn. “Rubbish and Revelry: Can Mardi Gras Go ‘Green’?” BBC, 4 Mar. 2025, www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250304-can-mardi-gras-go-green.