Human Services: Intro to Human Services APA Project Guide

Adding Citations

PARENTHETICAL CITATIONS

Parenthetical citations are placed at the end of the sentence containing the cited material:

1. Leave the end punctuation OFF the sentence

2. Add (Author’s last name/organization name, date/year only).

3. Period is placed AFTER the citation

4. Information in the parenthetical MUST match what is on the References page

For Example:

• APA style is a difficult citation format for first-time learners (Jones, 1998).

Placement of parenthetical citations:

• APA recommends placing the parenthetical citation after the FIRST sentence containing information from that source—do NOT wait until the end of the paragraph to include a citation unless ONLY the last sentence came from the source.

NARRATIVE CITATIONS

• • Narrative citations weave the author’s last name or the organization name (must match the Reference page) INTO the text as part of the sentence

• • Typically, the date is inserted (in parenthesis) immediately after the author/organization/title

• • When including a narrative citation, you do NOT need to also include a parenthetical citation at the end of the sentence                                                                                          

For Example:

• Kohler (2016) noted the dangers of falsely balanced news coverage.

CREATING IN-TEXT CITATIONS FOR SOURCES WITH 1, 2, or 3+  AUTHORS:

Citing Your Paraphrases in APA Format