Different Types of Citation and how to Properly Use them

APA Style Citation (scientific writing)

• In text citation looks like this: Henderson and Hamilton (2016) pointed out the…..

  The parenthetical citation looks like this: there has been a spike in cases among Boston area college students (Henderson and Hamilton, 2016)

  Let’s say you have more that one source: you would separate multiple citations with a semicolon, such as: (Henderson and Hamilton, 2016; Smith, 2020).

  If there are three or more authors, after they are mentioned the first time, future references can be listed as “(first author) et al.” which means and others in latin. For example, subsequent citations of the study by Henderson, Hamilton, and Jones (2016) would be noted as (Henderson et al., 2016).

• (For organizations)

  The rise in acute nasopharyngitis is seen as typical this time of year (Department of health and human services, 2015)

  In the case of a quotation citation: “The anarcho syndicalist tendencies are baseless and unfounded” (Sully, 2011, p. (page) 217)

  As Sully (2011) states, “those anarcho syndicalist tendicies are baseless and unfounded” (p. 217).

• Source that sources a source

  Jackson (2009) sees this phenomenon on the decline because of diaspora (as cited in Wolcox 2007)