An IEEE podcast citation should identify the episode you consulted and help readers locate the relevant passage. Check the credits, preserve the episode metadata, and keep audio and transcript timestamps tied to their own versions.
Choose the episode or transcript
Decide whether your sentence relies on the recording or the written transcript. A podcast series contains many episodes. An episode has its own title, credits and release record. A transcript presents the conversation as text and may have corrections, omissions or a different time base. Your reference should lead to the object that supports your sentence.
For an audio-based claim, save the episode page and the location in the recording. If you read only the transcript, identify that text as your source. Link the episode page so the reader can find the conversation without searching the series archive.
This guide uses the public episode page and transcript for Lex Fridman Podcast 501 with DHH. We checked the published pages and their timestamps. We have not listened to the recording to verify an exact quotation or tested seeking in its audio player. The example therefore demonstrates metadata and retrieval checks.
Check host, speaker and credits
The example’s episode title names DHH, while the site identifies Lex Fridman as the podcast host. The page’s publishing byline is Lex Fridman Team. Those labels describe different responsibilities. Write down each role before selecting the leading credit in your reference.
Murdoch University’s IEEE guide provides a podcast-episode pattern with credited artists, episode title, programme title, a recording date, an access date and an online-podcast label. Follow the convention required by your course or publication. Its “artist” field does not establish that every interview guest should automatically become the reference author.
For the worked reference below, we use the host, Lex Fridman, as the responsible creator and retain DHH in the episode title. This is an explicit editorial choice for the example. If your institution specifies presenters, producers or a corporate creator, change the leading credit accordingly. Keep the speaker’s name in the sentence when attributing a particular remark.
A publicly distributed interview belongs with its episode record. An interview you conducted privately needs the destination’s personal-communication treatment. Having a guest in the conversation does not make the public recording private communication.
Keep episode metadata
The publisher labels the example as episode 501 and dates its page August 26, 2026. Record that as the episode-page publication date. The page does not establish a recording date, so leave that field unconfirmed. Avoid relabeling a release date to make it fit a template that asks when the conversation was recorded.
| Field | Checked value |
|---|---|
| Programme and episode | Lex Fridman Podcast, 501 |
| Guest | DHH |
| Episode-page date | August 26, 2026 |
| Recording date | Unconfirmed |
| Audio-page chapter | Programming setup for AI Agents, 1:37:46 |
| Transcript chapter | Programming setup for AI Agents, 1:31:46 |
Use the full episode title in the reference. Retain the episode number as an identifier, especially when a guest appears more than once. Keep the permanent episode page as the main link so the reader can inspect its credits, chapters and audio link together. A temporary download address or listening-app session URL can be harder to interpret later.
The following is an adapted online-podcast reference, using the checked publication date and our stated host-credit choice. Confirm the field order with your destination before submitting it.
[1] L. Fridman, “DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux,” Lex Fridman Podcast, ep. 501, Aug. 26, 2026. Accessed: Nov. 8, 2026. [Online Podcast]. Available: https://lexfridman.com/dhh-2/The access date records our page check. Use your own consultation date in your manuscript. The number [1] is illustrative and should follow the order in which the source first appears in your text.
Make the cited passage retrievable
The example reveals why a timestamp needs a version. The episode page lists “Programming setup for AI Agents” at 1:37:46, while the transcript lists that chapter at 1:31:46. Both labels are public, but they differ by six minutes. The transcript says its clickable timestamps lead into the main video. Copying a transcript time into a note about the audio would leave the reader at an unverified location.
For an audio citation, open the publisher’s recording and seek to the chapter listed on the episode page. Listen until you reach the exact passage and record that start time, together with the player or edition used. Advertisements and edited introductions can shift the position. Our checked chapter marker is a starting point for that listening check.
For a transcript citation, use its own page and section heading. The publisher warns that the human-generated text may contain errors. Verify a quotation against the recording before presenting it as the speaker’s exact words. If you rely on the written transcript alone, say so and preserve the wording you read.
For example, a source note can identify “episode-page chapter 1:37:46” or “transcript chapter 1:31:46.” These notes describe the two published navigation points. Replace the chapter time with a verified passage time when you cite a specific statement. For video locator syntax, see the YouTube citation guide.
If you cite the transcript separately, describe it explicitly as a transcript and link its page. Use the destination’s online-document convention, keeping the conversation’s episode date distinct from any verified transcript publication or revision date. The website citation guide covers missing dates and page metadata. Do not assign the transcript a date merely because it discusses the same episode.