{"id":162,"date":"2023-05-11T12:12:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T12:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-technicalwriting\/chapter\/apa-style-in-text-citations\/"},"modified":"2023-05-23T23:57:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T23:57:47","slug":"apa-style-in-text-citations","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-technicalwriting\/chapter\/apa-style-in-text-citations\/","title":{"raw":"APA Style In-Text Citations","rendered":"APA Style In-Text Citations"},"content":{"raw":"When citing an APA source from your bibliography in the text, the author's name and publication year are put in parentheses in the normal sentence punctuation. A comma is placed between the name of the author and the date. For the citing of a specific page in the cited publication, <i>p.<\/i> with the page number following is used. If more than one page is being referred to, use <i>pp.<\/i> with the referred pages listed afterward.\r\n\r\n<i><b>Example<\/b><\/i>: English Springer Spaniels originated in England in the year 1802 (Harris, 1977, p.28).\r\n\r\n\u2022 Harris is the author and the information came from a book he wrote that was published in 1977. The information was found on page 28.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/297\/2015\/03\/20165413\/citation-needed-sign.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1658\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/297\/2015\/03\/20165413\/citation-needed-sign-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Citation Needed Sign in Crowd\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<i><b>Example<\/b><\/i>: English Springer Spaniels were used for hunting (Harris et al., 1977).\r\n\r\n\u2022 Harris and three or more others are the authors of the cited information. \"et al\" is an abbreviation for the Latin phrase, <i>et alii<\/i>, which means \"and others\".\r\n\r\n<i><b>Example<\/b><\/i>: English Springer Spaniels come in black and white colors (<i>AKC Dog Book<\/i>, 1977).\r\n\r\n\u2022 The information came from a book call the \"AKC Dog Book\" that was published in 1977.\r\n\r\n\u2022 If more than one source by the same author published in the same year is used, differentiate the citations as seen in the following example:\r\n\r\n<i><b>Example<\/b><\/i>: (Smith, 1989a) and (Smith, 1989b)\r\n\r\n\u2022 Consult publication manual of the <i>American Psychological Association<\/i> for more referencing examples.\r\n\r\n<i><b>Example<\/b><\/i>: According to Keith, Snowboarding had progressed enormously in the past 20 years (2010, pp. 25-28).\r\n\r\n\u2022 If the Author's name is incorporated into the sentence written itself, only the year and the page numbers are necessary in the parentheses.\r\n\r\nAmerican Psychological Association Style (APA) is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences.\r\n\r\nTitle page:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Contains title<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Is double spaced<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Contains author name\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>First name, middle initial(s), last name<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Do not use titles (Dr.) or degrees (Ph.D.)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Contains name of institutional affiliation\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Location author conducted research (if applicable)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Has a page header with title flush to the left and page number flush to the right\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Should be no more than 12 words<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Emit all abbreviation or words that contain no purpose<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nEssay body:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Is typed and double spaced on 8.5\" by 11\" paper<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Has one inch margins<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Is written with 10-12 pt. font<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Is written in Times New Roman font, or a similar style<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Includes a page header containing title of your page in all capital letters<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<p>When citing an APA source from your bibliography in the text, the author&#8217;s name and publication year are put in parentheses in the normal sentence punctuation. A comma is placed between the name of the author and the date. For the citing of a specific page in the cited publication, <i>p.<\/i> with the page number following is used. If more than one page is being referred to, use <i>pp.<\/i> with the referred pages listed afterward.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>Example<\/b><\/i>: English Springer Spaniels originated in England in the year 1802 (Harris, 1977, p.28).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Harris is the author and the information came from a book he wrote that was published in 1977. 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