•  WHAT IS A REFERENCE CITATION?
  •  A reference citation is the documentation needed to make your paper acceptable for academic purposes. It gives authoritative sources for your statements, helps the reader gain access to those sources, and acknowledges the fact that the information used in a paper did not originate with the writer.
  •  WHAT IS APA’S STYLE OF REFERENCE CITATION?
  •  APA style uses the author/date method of citation in which the author’s last name and the year of the publication are inserted in the actual text of the paper
  • The American Psychological Association offers some guidance and examples at APA STYLE