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SPAN 3050 Spanish Phonology and Phonetics

APA

APA In-tex Citation Examples

Examples of short in-text citations:

  1. According to Jones (1998), "students often had difficulty using APA style, especially when it was their first time" (p. 199).
  2. Jones (1998) found "students often had difficulty using APA style" (p. 199); what implications does this have for teachers?
  3. She stated, "Students often had difficulty using APA style" (Jones, 1998, p. 199), but she did not offer an explanation as to why.
  4. Jones (1998) found a variety of causes for student dissatisfaction with prevailing citation practices (paras. 4–5).

Tips for long quotations:

  1. Starts the quotation with an introductory phrase: Quam's (2020) study found:
  2. The entire quotation must be indented 1/2 inch
  3. end the quotation with a parenthesis enclosing the page number (. 199)