APA CITATION

• American Psychological Association (APA) referencing

style is the most commonly used referencing style in the
field of education. It is also known as “author-date
referencing”.
citation

Citation
• the way you tell your readers that certain material/ idea in
your work came from another source.

Citation Style
• a set of guidelines on how to cite sources in your
academic writing.
IN-TEXT CITATION

• a reference citation that is made within the body of the

text or essay (Waikato Institute of Technology, 2010).
• we use in-text citations every time we quote, summarize,
and paraphrase statements, information, and ideas that
came from others.
• a scholarly acknowledgment through giving credit who
stipulated the ideas and concepts.
In-text citation with single author used in the beginning
Fernandez (2020), stressed that proper citation has to be
observed among novice researchers.

In-text citation with single author used at the end

Proper usage of citation styles promotes integrity among
novice researchers (Fernandez, 2020).
How about if the writer wanted to indicate the title of the
source? Of course, you can do it. However, title has to be in
quotation marks.

• In-text citation with article title

In Fernandez’s (2020) article, “Plagiarism: Writers’
Crime”, stressed that proper citation has to be observed
among novice researchers.

Another example:
In Fernandez’s (2020) book, “The Secrets of Plagiarism”,
discussed on ways plagiarism can be avoided.
 In some cases, the title of book, articles,proceedings,
journal articles and the like are italicized. However, when
you italicized the title, omit the quotation marks.
• In-text citation without quotation
In Fernandez’s (2020) book, The Secrets of
Plagiarism, discussed on ways plagiarism can be avoided.
In-text citation in the middle of the statement
Fernandez (2020) attested that citation can be used only at
the beginning and end ofthe sentence, whereas Munez (2020)
claimed otherwise.
• When do we use “et al.” in our citation? “Et al.” is a Latin
term for “et alia” which means “and others”. This is used
when you have multiple authors. Multiple authorship is
authorship composed of six (6) or more authors. Thus,
when you have less than six authors, you need to write
their surname. If you use in-text citation at the beginning,
just connect their surname with a comma and “and”.
However, if it is at the end of the statement, you connect
the authors’ surname with the use of comma and
ampersand.
• In-text citation with three (3) authors (beginning)
Fernandez, Munez, and Valencia (2020), attested that
citation can be used only at the beginning and end of the
statement.

• In-text citation with three (3) authors (end)

It was attested that citation can be used only at the
beginning and end of the statement (Fernandez, Munez, &
Valencia, 2020).
• In-text citation with six (6) or more authors
Fernandez et al. (2020), attested that citation can be
used only at the beginning and end of the statement.

• In-text citation with six (6) authors (end)

• It was attested that citation can be used only at the
beginning and end of the statement (Fernandez, et al.,
2020).