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APA In-text Citation Guide

The document discusses APA in-text citations, including providing the author's last name and publication year in parentheses or narratively. It covers citing one, two, or three or more authors and provides solutions for citing sources with unknown elements.

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APA In-text Citation Guide

The document discusses APA in-text citations, including providing the author's last name and publication year in parentheses or narratively. It covers citing one, two, or three or more authors and provides solutions for citing sources with unknown elements.

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APA In-text Citations

In-text citations are brief references in your text that identify the source presented in the
reference list. If you quote or paraphrase someone else's work, you must include in-text
citations.
The APA in-text citation format follows the author-date method, consisting of the author's last
name and publication year. If you are directly citing or borrowing from a source, you should
include a page number using the abbreviation "p/pp." When citing a specific portion of a
source, include identifying information such as a timestamp or page. For example: (Harken,
2018, pp. 145-153).

Parenthetical and Narrative Citation

The in-text citation can either be in parenthetical or narrative form. A parenthetical


citation should follow the content you are citing from a given source. For example:

 In 2010, everything we once knew ... (Kim, 2008).

A narrative citation emphasizes the author of the source you are using. For
example:

 Kim (2008) notes that …

Additional APA Citation Rules


The APA's author-date method for an in-text citation is fairly straightforward, but
the format applied depends on the source type and number of authors. For three
or more authors, include “et al.” after listing the first author.

Type Parenthetical Citation Narrative Citation

One author (Kim, 2020) Kim (2020)

Two authors (Tshitoyan & Dagdelen, Tshitoyan and Dagdelen (2019)


2019)

Three or more (Tshitoyan et al., 2020) Tshitoyan et al. (2020)


Type Parenthetical Citation Narrative Citation

authors

Organization (Home Depot, 2020) Home Depot (2020)

When any information needed to create the in-text citation is unknown, refer to
the table below.

Unknown Element Solution In-text Citation

Author Provide the source title.* (Source Title, year)

Date Write “n.d.” for “no date”. (Author, n.d.)

Title Provide the author and date. (Author, year)


or Author (year)

* Source title should follow the general title capitalization rules and title format
depending on the source type. Also, if the title in the reference entry is not
italicized, place in quotation marks.

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