How to Cite the Caribbean Podcast Directory for Academic and Professional Research

Permission & Attribution
The Caribbean Podcast Directory (CPD) is an original curated database of Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora podcasts, created and maintained by Kerry-Ann Reid-Brown / Breadfruit Media. It is not a generic public resource or web directory. Its structure, organization, categorization, and curation criteria represent original intellectual work.

What belongs to Kerry-Ann Reid-Brown is the directory itself: its architecture, organization, curation standards, and the database as a whole. The individual podcasts listed within the directory are independent works owned by their respective creators.

The Caribbean Podcast Directory makes no claim over those shows and cannot grant permission to cite or use them. To cite an individual podcast listed in the directory, contact that show directly.

The following require permission before proceeding:

• Using the Caribbean Podcast Directory as a dataset or primary data source for research, analyzing the directory’s structure or curation criteria as a subject of study, reproducing or screenshotting directory content in a published or submitted paper, and recruiting podcast creators listed in the directory as research participants through the directory.
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Citing the Directory as a Whole

Use this format when referencing the Caribbean Podcast Directory as a source for example, when acknowledging it as the basis for your podcast selection or as a reference point for Caribbean diaspora media. The directory must be identified as an original curated database, not as a generic website or list.

• Chicago: Reid-Brown, Kerry-Ann, creator. Caribbean Podcast Directory. Breadfruit Media, [Year of access]. Database. https://www.caribbeanpodcastdirectory.com
• APA: Reid-Brown, K.-A. (Year of access). Caribbean Podcast Directory [Database]. Breadfruit Media. https://www.caribbeanpodcastdirectory.com
• MLA: Reid-Brown, Kerry-Ann, creator. Caribbean Podcast Directory. Breadfruit Media, Year of access. https://www.caribbeanpodcastdirectory.com

Citing the Directory’s Categorization & Organization

Use this format when referencing how the Caribbean Podcast Directory organizes and categorizes Caribbean diaspora podcasts; for example, when discussing its categorization by cultural heritage, country of origin, or current location of host as part of your research methodology or findings. The organizational structure and categorization criteria of the directory are original intellectual work created by Kerry-Ann Reid-Brown. When referencing a specific category or organizational framework within the directory, cite the directory as a whole and identify the specific categorization in your text.

• Chicago: Reid-Brown, Kerry-Ann, creator. Caribbean Podcast Directory. Breadfruit Media, [Year of access]. Database. https://www.caribbeanpodcastdirectory.com
  In your text: “The Caribbean Podcast Directory organizes podcasts by [category — e.g., cultural heritage, country of origin, current location of host] (Reid-Brown, [Year of access]).”
• APA: Reid-Brown, K.-A. (Year of access). Caribbean Podcast Directory [Database]. Breadfruit Media. https://www.caribbeanpodcastdirectory.com
  In your text: The Caribbean Podcast Directory categorizes podcasts by cultural heritage, country of origin, and current location of host (Reid-Brown, Year of access).
• MLA: Reid-Brown, Kerry-Ann, creator. Caribbean Podcast Directory. Breadfruit Media, Year of access. https://www.caribbeanpodcastdirectory.com
  In your text: The Caribbean Podcast Directory organizes podcasts by cultural heritage, country of origin, and current location of host (Reid-Brown).

In-Text and Parenthetical References

• Chicago footnote:  Kerry-Ann Reid-Brown, creator, Caribbean Podcast Directory (Breadfruit Media, Year of access), [URL].
• APA in-text: (Reid-Brown, Year)
• MLA in-text: (Reid-Brown) or (Caribbean Podcast Directory)

Attribution Standards

Regardless of citation style, all references to the Caribbean Podcast Directory must identify Kerry-Ann Reid-Brown as creator and Breadfruit Media as the producing organization. The directory must be referred to by its full name: Caribbean Podcast Directory in all mentions throughout the research. Do not refer to it as a generic database, web resource, or list without attribution.

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