What is in-text citation?
- Each time a reference is made to someone else’s work in a document, the author’s name and the date of his/her work should be included within the text at the point where his/her ideas have been discussed. This is called citing the author’s work.
- Remember: When in-text citation is used and there is more than one author at a time, the author’s names should be listed in the order the authors appear on the title page of the book or article!
- When a citation appears at the end of a sentence, the full-stop for the sentence appears after the citation.
- When multiple authors are cited, the ampersand (&) is only used in the citation brackets while “and” is used when the citation is part of the sentence.
