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APA Referencing Guide: Titles

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In-text Citations - Titles

In-text Citations - Titles

In-Text Citations - Titles

 

Sometimes, (see Author-unknown) it may be necessary to include the title of a piece of work within the in-text citation.

 

Example

Many of the cotton spinning mills in Lancashire produced a fine, high quality yarn from raw cotton that had been imported from Egypt (Spinning a yarn, 1960).

 

Note

 

  • If the title of the work appears in italics in your Reference List (eg.  a book title), then, it must also appear in italics your in-text citation.

 

  • If the title of the work does not appear in italics in your Reference List (e.g. a journal article title), then, it should be enclosed in double quotation marks in your in-text citation.

 

  • Work titles that are placed in your in-text citations should appear in title-case even though they will appear in sentence-case in your Reference List.

 

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