Examples of Citation Format

APA citation basics

Use the author-date method of in-text citation. The author's last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text, for example, (Jones, 2018), and a complete reference should appear in the reference list at the end of the paper.

Short quotations

If you are directly quoting a source, include the page number; i.e., (Jones, 2018, p. 183).

Long quotations

Place direct quotations that are 40 words or longer in a free-standing block of typewritten lines and omit quotation marks. Maintain double spacing. The in-text citation should come after the closing punctuation mark.