There are 2 ways to present your in-text citations: information prominent or author prominent citations.
If the author’s name does not appear naturally within the sentence, include the name, year and/or page(s) you are referring to in brackets at the end of the sentence. Use an ampersand (&) between multiple author names.
Increased oversight of licenced establishments, especially in the vicinity of schools and especially in more impoverished regions, may help lower the percentage of teenagers who consume alcohol while underage (Doyle, Foley & Houghton, 2024).
If the name appears naturally in the body of your sentence, just add the date and/or page number(s) in brackets after the name where it occurs. If there is more than 1 author, use word “and” between the names.
Higgins and Lynch (2024) found that …