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Psychology M06 - Boucquey

Research guide for Professor Boucquey's Introduction to Behavioral Research Methods

Examples of In-Text Citations

For APA format in-text citations, you will need to make sure you always include the author's last name(s) and the date the information was published. Your paper will have a short in-text citation within the body of your paper and a full reference of the work on your References page at the end of your essay.

  • Both paraphrases and quotations require citations
  • If you mention the author's name within your sentence, include the date after the last name and will not need to place a citation in parenthesis after the sentence
  • If you use a direct quote, include the page number

Here are some examples:

Kinsey (2022) discovered that students who attended a library session were successful at locating credible sources.

                                                                                                            OR

One study found that college students who attended a library instruction had significantly higher grades (Kinsey, 2022).

                                                                                                            OR

According to Kinsey (2022), "conducting research is a cyclical process that includes reevaluation" (p. 212).

Examples of References

Print Book:

Mancini, C. (2008). Racism in Harper Lee’s To kill a mockingbird. Greenhaven Press.

Electronic Book:

Schreiber, B. (2019). Music is power : Popular songs, social Justice, and the will to change. Rutgers University Press.

Web page:

Hollmichel, S. (2013, April 25). The reading brain: Differences between digital and print. So Many Books.

https://somanybooksblog.com/2013/04/25/the-reading-brain-differences-between-digital-and-print/

Webpage with Organization as Author

Autism Speaks. (2017, March 6). World's largest autism genome database shines new light on many 'autisms.' Autism

Speaks. https://www.autismspeaks.org/science/science-news. 

Academic Journal Article:

Grauer, J., Löwen, H., & Liebchen, B. (2020). Strategic spatiotemporal vaccine distribution increases the survival rate in an infectious disease like

Covid-19. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1–10. https://doi-org.whccd.idm.oclc.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78447-3

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Formatting the References Page

  • Each reference entry includes four elements: author, date, title, and source
  • Alphabetical order:
    • Author’s last name, first initial or the title if there is no author
  • Double-spaced
  • Hanging indent
  • Capitalize only first word of title and subtitle
  • Full URL for electronic sources
  • Include Digital Object Identifier (DOI) instead of database

Learn more from APA here: References