Locate the last name of the producer or producers for a television broadcast, like a news show or television series, if referenced as a whole or the last name of the writer or writers of a television episode. Locate the year the television show aired.
Pinpoint the material you will be citing. If the information in a single sentence within the body of the paragraph came from the television show, you will place the in-text citation at the end of the sentence. If an entire paragraph or two or more consecutive sentences were derived from information in the television show, you will place the in-text citation at the end of the final pertinent sentence.
Insert a space between the final word of the sentence and the period. If you are citing a quotation from the television show, you will need to place the period outside of the closing quotation marks and insert the space between the quotation mark and the period.
Type the in-text citation as (producer, year) or (writer, year). For example, if you are discussing the 1998 season of the television show, "Friends," you would use the producers names and the year of the season: (Bright, Kauffman and Crane, 1998).
Cite all the names of multiple producers or writers in the first in-text citation and only the first producer or writer in all subsequent citations. Continuing the example above, a separate citation later in the body of the paper would be (Bright, 1998).