Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Citing Sources
Citing Sources
Reference Citation
Refers to the complete bibliographic
entries of all references used by the
writer.
Style Guides
APA Style Guide
7TH EDITION
IN-TEXT CITATION
IN-TEXT CITATION
In parenthetical citations, the author's name and publication date appear in parentheses.
In narrative citations, the author's name is incorporated into the text as part of the
sentence and the year follows in parentheses.
Use the past tense or the present perfect tense of verbs in signal phrases when they discuss past
events.
IN-TEXT CITATION
For work with ONE AUTHOR
REFERENCE CITATION
APA REFERENCE CITATION
Guidelines
4 ELEMENTS OF AN APA REFERENCE
1. author: Who is responsible for this
work?
2. date: When was this work published?
3. title: What is this work called?
4. source: Where can I retrieve this
work?
JOURNAL ARTICLE
BOOK
WEBPAGE
NOTE: include a retrieval date when the page's content is likely to change over timetle bit of body text
UNKNOWN AUTHOR
RETRIEVAL DATE
SOURCE DESCRIPTION