Genetics Case Study: Citing Your Sources

With APA, we use parenthetical citations for in-text quoting or paraphrasing.

Basic Format:

(Lastname, Year).

(Lastname, Year, pp. Pages).

Direct Quotation Example:

They argued that by developing students' critical reflection skills on the role of privilege and information technologies in society, librarians could work towards "training the next generation of critically minded, socially responsible, and culturally competent information professionals" (Cooke et al., 2016, p. 121).

Paraphrasing Example:

Mathuews (2016) argues that diversity and human rights imperatives in academic libraries are too simplistic to attain a measure of true social justice.

• When paraphrasing in APA, it's okay to state an author's name followed by the (year) of the publication in parentheses. You can also state or summarize another's idea followed by their (Name, year). 

References:

Jones, R. 2020. "Social justice in library science programs: A content analysis approach." Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 52 (4): 1102-1109. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000620904432