The two main components of an in-text reference when paraphrasing and summarising are the author name(s) and the date. If you are directly quoting from the source, you must also enclose the quote in double quotation marks and include the page number.
Book - one author:
APA 6th & 7th:
In-text
(Williams, 2007) OR Williams (2007)
Book - two authors:
APA 6th & 7th:
In-text
(Remley & Herlihy, 2011) OR Remley and Herlihy (2011)
Book - three to five authors:
APA 7th:
In-text citation
(Campbell et al., 2004) OR Campbell et al. (2004)
APA 6th:
First in-text citation
(Campbell, Campbell, & Dickinson, 2004) OR Campbell, Campbell, and Dickinson (2004)
Subsequent in-text citations
(Campbell et al., 2004) OR Campbell et al. (2004)
Book - six or seven authors:
APA 6th & 7th
In-text
(Harrison et al., 1999) OR Harrison et al. (1999)
Book - eight or more authors:
APA 6th & 7th
In-text
(Henry et al., 2010) OR Henry et al. (2010)
