How to Cite a Sora Video

APA does not currently publish a dedicated example for this exact source type. The format below applies APA's current AI citation principles to this source.

What APA does publish is two worked AI forms: an AI tool — Google. (2025). Gemini 3 Flash [Large language model]. https://gemini.google.com — and an AI chat, which adds the day and a title and moves the tool's name after the brackets. See APA's AI references examples page and its reference-formats post and judge for yourself. The entry below is APA's chat form element for element — company, full date, a description in the title slot, a bracketed label, the tool and the link. What is ours is the label itself: [AI-generated video] appears in no APA example. APA permits the swap in so many words — "other descriptions are possible; use the description that best fits the type of AI model or tool used", and, of the chat form, "Adapt the wording within square brackets as needed" — so treat [AI-generated video] as the wording Citation[Z] chose under that permission, and use your instructor's if they prefer another.

OpenAI → date → clip description → [AI-generated video] → Sora → link. Build it in the generator under Manual Entry → AI-generated video.

Sora is OpenAI's generative text-to-video model, which turns a written prompt into realistic short clips. It's the tool that pushed AI video into the mainstream, so it's the one students most often need to cite when a generated clip lands in a presentation or project.

Because the clip has no human filmmaker, the citation supplies provenance — which model, which prompt, when — and satisfies AI-disclosure requirements.

• Author is OpenAI, with Sora named as the model — the same pattern as citing ChatGPT or DALL·E. Sora is a model name, not a version number, so it sits where the tool's name goes and not in a parenthetical.
• Grab a share link if you can. A Sora share URL points to the exact clip; without one, name OpenAI/Sora and give the date.
• Keep the prompt. Put a short description in the title and the full prompt in a note — that's what makes the clip reproducible.
• If OpenAI ships a newer Sora, record that name — a later release is a new model name, which is what pins the clip. Don't invent a version number: OpenAI doesn't publish one for Sora, and APA notes it has "been unable to find prominent AI tools that include version information". If a tool ever does show you one, APA lets you add it in parentheses after the model.