APA documentation

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undefined. A page number is required for all APA in-text citations.
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undefined. In the text of a paper, the author(s) of a source and the source’s date must be given either in a signal phrase introducing the cited material or in parentheses following it.
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undefined. The list of references is organized alphabetically by authors’ last names (or by title for a work with no author).
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undefined. When citing a source with two authors in the text of the paper, use an ampersand (&) to join the names either in a signal phrase introducing the source or in parentheses at the end of the citation.
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undefined. When you include a page number in parentheses at the end of a citation, precede the number with the abbreviation “p.” or “pp.”
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undefined. APA style recommends using the present tense in a signal phrase introducing cited material (for example, “Baker reports that” or “Wu argues that”).
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undefined. When a paper cites two or more works by an author published in the same year, each one is assigned a lowercase letter, beginning with “a,” which appears after the year of publication in both in-text citations and the list of references.
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undefined. If available, a date is supplied for all in-text citations; if no date is available, the abbreviation “n.d.” is used instead.
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undefined. If a work has eight or more authors, use the first author’s name followed by “et al.” in the reference list.
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undefined. For a work with an unknown author, give the work’s full title and its date in a signal phrase introducing the source or use a brief title and the date in parentheses following the source. Name “Anonymous” as the author only if the work specifies “Anonymous” as the author.
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