Welcome to this Information and Library Services tutorial on APA
citations. In it, you will learn about APA in-text and reference
citations. The American Psychological Association developed APA
citation style to help you document your sources in a research
paper or other project. By employing APA citation style, you
will give proper credit to authors whose ideas you are using in
your own work. In a research paper, you will use two types of
APA citation: - In-text citations are brief and appear among the
sentences you write in your paper. - Reference citations are
longer and will appear at the back of your paper, in your
References list. Let's see how in-text and reference citations
work together. Let's say you've written this sentence in your
paper: Public and private interactions are vital in an online
class (Blair & Hoy, 2006). The sentence expresses an idea,
rephrased in your own words, that you read in an article. To
show where you found the idea, you add the authors' names and
the year the article was pu