APA In-Text Citations
Anytime you quote OR use information from an outside source, you include an in-text citation, or sometimes referred to as a parenthetical citation, at the end of that sentence to signify where that information came from.
Basic APA In-Text Format
Paraphrasing Information: (Author(s) last name, year published) ⮕ (Fisher & Bishop, 2015).
Direct Quote: (Author(s) last name, year published, page number) ⮕ (Fisher & Bishop, 2015, p. 21)
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Use the author’s last name, a comma, and the year published.
(Guo, 2020).
Connect both authors' last names with & (ampersand), a comma, and the year.
(Dresang & Koh, 2009).
If there are 3 or more authors, use just the last name of the first author, use et al. in place of other authors, a comma, and the year.
(Vardell et al., 2020).
If you are using a source that has a group as an author, like the CDC, the first time you cite them, use the entire group name, the abbreviated name in brackets, a comma, and the year.
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2019).
All subsequent citations will look like this:
(CDC, 2019).