Parts of citations. APA citations appear in two parts of your text—a brief in-text citation in the body of your written text and a full citation in the list of references, to which the in-text citation directs readers. The most straightforward in-text citations include the author’s name, the publication year, and the page number, but many variations on this basic format are discussed in 50c.

In the text of her research essay (see 50e and the integrated media), Tawnya Redding includes a paraphrase of material from an online journal that she accessed through the publisher’s Web site. She cites the authors’ names and the year of publication in a parenthetical reference, pointing readers to the entry for “Baker, F., & Bor, W. (2008)” in her reference list, shown on p. 456.