Creating In-Text Citations Using APA Style

Authors & Contributors

When the author's name is not mentioned in the sentence, you must include all three elements (name, date, and page numbers or chapter) in the parentheses, directly following the pertinent material being cited. When the citation falls at the end of the sentence, the parenthetical note precedes the end punctuation (period). There are two commas, one separating the author's name and the date, and one separating the date and the page number (or chapter, etc.). Page numbers are preceded by the abbreviation "p." and chapter numbers are preceded by the abbreviation "chap." [NOTE: Other parts of sources that may be cited are volume, book, line, or section numbers, particularly in the case of classical works.]

Some have sought to dispel this notion that psychiatry as a discipline is "unsullied by the complications of society and politics" (Thomas, 1997, p. 4).

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