APA Style In-text Citation

APA Style In-text Citation

This is your first step to avoid plagiarism!

Multiple Choice

Realism is believing that truth exist in the world independent of mind and language. (______)

• Kleinman, 2013

• Kleinman, 2013, pg. 78

Remember:

In a parenthetical in-text citation, include the page number if you want to be specific on where you got the information from the book.

Multiple Choice

Kleinman (_____) explained that realism is truth existing in a world independent of mind and language.

• Kleinman, 2013

• 2013

Remember:

If the author's name is part of the sentence, only the year and page number are included in the parenthesis. 

This rule is for a narrative in-text citation.

Multiple Choice

Kleinman pointed out that realism is believing that truth is beyond man's concepts and language (______).

• Kleinman, pg. 73

• 2013, pg. 73

Remember

The parenthetical in-text citation at the end of the sentence is written before a period.

Multiple Choice

In Philosophy 101, it is explained that realism is truth beyond our own experience and our words (______).

• 2013, pg. 78

• Kleinman, 2013, pg.78

Remember:

If only the title of the book is mentioned in the sentence, you may include the author's name, date, and pages in the parenthesis.

Multiple Choice

Online education is learning that takes place in the Internet (_________).

• Stern & Smith, 2018

• Stern and Smith, 2018

Multiple Choice

Online education is learning that takes place in the Internet (_________).

• Stern, Ali, Rue, & Smith, 2018

• Stern, et al., 2018

Multiple Choice

Stern and Smith (______) argued that online education is only accessible if one has the privelege of accessing the internet.

• 2018

• Stern & Smith, 2018

Remember:

If you have two authors, use the ampersand (&) in the parenthesis.

If there are 3 or more authors, use the words "et al" after the lead author's name.

If the authors' names are part of the sentence, write only the date and page numbers in the parenthesis.

Multiple Choice

According to paleontology, the early hominids' skull anatomy was similar to that of the gorilla and the chimpanzee, great apes that also evolved in Africa, but the hominids had adopted a bipedal locomotion which freed their hands (_______).

• Shillington, 2005, pg. 2

• Shillington, P., 2005, pg. 2

Multiple Choice

In his article, Romano (____) explained that one example of cancel culture is when celebrities said something offensive and immediately social media users would unite to boycott them to the point of ending their career.

• 2020

• Vox, 2020

Remember:

Even if you put an in-text citation in your paper, it doesn't mean that you are not plagiarizing. It is still important to paraphrase or put the information you got in your own words.

Remember referencing and in-text citation the next time you need to pass an essay!