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APA

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by American Psychological Association Staff
Call Number: BF76.7 .P83 2010
ISBN: 9781433805592
Publication Date: 2009-07-15
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Gavilan Library APA References list Handout.

In-text or Parenthetical Citation

Always give credit for any information, ideas, or actual wording you get from another source.

Do this by naming the author and page number in parentheses at the end of the sentence in which you use the author’s idea. This is called in-text (or parenthetical) citation.

When citing a source in the body of your paper, include the author and page number at the end of the sentence in which you use that source.
The period that ends the sentence goes AFTER the parentheses.

The APA and MLA formats for in-text citation are NOT the same. See the individual style guides for examples.