Can I use just the author's name in the in-text citations or must I also include the date?
Answer
According to the 7th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association:
"In general, include the author and date in every in-text citation. If you need to repeat a citation...repeat the entire citation... The year can be omitted from a citation only when multiple narrative citations to a work appear within a single paragraph"(American Psychological Association, 2020, p. 265).
Example:
According to the American Psychological Association (2020), you should almost always include the author name and date in every citation, unless you are repeating the same narrative citation multiple times in the same paragraph.
For more information:
https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/basic-principles/author-date
References
American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000
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