

Place the year in parentheses directly after the author’s name, and place the page number in parentheses directly after the quote.

In a narrative citation, the author(s) appear as part of your sentence. Example: APA parenthetical citationA recent study of student plagiarism found that “plagiarism is often a matter of confusion rather than deception” (Horváth & Kovács, 2020, p. In a parenthetical citation, you place the entire citation in parentheses directly after the quote and before the period (or other punctuation mark). There are two types of APA in-text citation: parenthetical and narrative. The page number is preceded by “p.” (for a single page) or “pp.” (for a page range). To cite a quote in APA, you always include the the author’s last name, the year the source was published, and the page on which the quote can be found.
