An
in-text citation contains the information so that if someone reading your paper wants to
follow-up and read the original source of your information, they can do so by reading the refenced article. An
in-text citation can be created in many ways depending upon your
writing style.
Here are a some general guidelines:
- If there is one author, include the author's last name and date
of publication
- If there are two authors, include both authors' last names and
date of publication
- If there are three or more authors, include the last name of the
first author followed by et al. and date of publication
Example
1:
In addition, floods are fundamental in driving the
disturbance regime (Bendix 2000).
Example
2:
Our results show that the favorable conditions
hypothesis (Levine and D'Antonio 1999) and resource heterogeneity
hypothesis (Davies et al. 2005) may not be mutually exclusive.
Example
3:
Root porosity for Carex nigra was similar to those
obtained by Visser et al. (2000) in hydroponic cultures.
