APA citation style allows including different articles, researches, publications, and various materials belonging to other authors in the written text. It enables providing the correct bibliographic description of the resources used in accordance with uniform rules and methods that will meet contemporary academic standards. It should be noted that APA style assists in the correct formatting of the list of literature as well as the entire work including a title page, any appendices and attachments, a table of content, and all other sections that may be present in a paper (Angeli et al., 2016). Thus, APA style offers a set of rules for bibliographic descriptions so that the author can make correct allusions to resources of any type. These descriptions will be understandable for any people familiar with APA referencing style and will be recognized and accepted in the scientific community as a proper approach to citing the works of other people. In-text citations are required when someone else’s ideas are used in the written text (Angeli et al., 2016). They help to avoid plagiarizing the content and build the reliability of the paper. Overall, they should be used to introduce the ideas suggested by other people. An example of an in-text citation is as follows:
- The article by Yamawaki, Ochoa-Shipp, Pulsipher, Harlos, and Swindler (2012) dwells upon the myths related to domestic abuse and violent relationships.
A properly quoted material following APA style rules is as follows:
- According to Yamawaki et al. (2012), “participants blamed the victim who reportedly returned to her abuser more than the victim about whom there is no such information” (p. 3195).
Since this article has already been referenced in the first paragraph, and it has five authors, the in-text citation has been reduced to the surname of the first author.
References
Angeli, E., Wagner, J., Lawrick, E., Moore, K., Anderson, M., Soderlund, L., & Brizee, A. (2016). General format. Web.
Yamawaki, N., Ochoa-Shipp, M., Pulsipher, C., Harlos, A., & Swindler, S. (2012). The effects of domestic violence myths, victim’s relationships with her abuser, and the decision to return to her abuser. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 27(16), 3195-3212.