An APA in-text citation includes the author last name & date of publication from your source separated by comma and placed in parentheses. If the author is not available, use the title.
CAS's Writing and Citing LibGuide brochure provides these examples of in-text citations in APA format:
Standard In-text citation:
The tone of words can be hurtful (Tannen, 2012).
In-text citation with author's name as part of the sentence (only the year needs to go in parentheses):
Tannen (2012) has argued this point.
In-text citation using a work's title:
International espionage was prevalent in the 1990s in many parts of the world ("Decade," 2012).
In the first two examples, Tannen is the author and 2012 is the date of publication. In the third one, there is no named author so the article title is placed first in the reference on the References page. The beginning of the title (in quotation marks) is used for the in-text citation.
You can find more guidance on doing In-text citations in APA format from the library's 'Writing and Citing LibGuide.'
