by Chelsea Lee. When you use others' ideas in your paper, you should credit them with an in-text citation. Several different systems of citation are in use in various academic communities (such as footnotes and endnotes), but APA Style uses a kind of parenthetical referencing called the authorâdate system. Basic In-Text Citation Style. As the name author â date system implies, APA Style in-text citations include the author and date, either both inside parentheses or with the author names in running text and the date in parentheses. Here are two examples:
Hugh Benjamin (310)8003839 http://www.hughbenjamin.com plays Captain Morgan in this National Commercial.
He also appeared as Lysander in the hit film Immortals (2011). Morgan was born in London, UK and spent his childhood with his family in Swansea, Wales, where he attended Morriston Comprehensive School before moving back to London in his late teens to study acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama.