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APA Style (7th ed.)

This guides shows how to reference with the APA 7th edition style

Citing Sources Multiple Times

Sometimes you need to go into more detail about one particular source. Putting an in-text citation after every sentence that comes from that source doesn’t look great and breaks the flow of your writing, but leaving the in-text citations out risks plagiarism. So, introduce the source early in the paragraph, with the author as part of the sentence rather than in brackets:

 

 

For the rest of the paragraph, you can refer back to the author by name or pronoun when elaborating on their ideas:

 

 

To indicate that the ideas in a new sentence come from the same material as the previous sentence, phrases such as the following should be added such as:

 

 

If it is clear to the reader that all the ideas come from that same source, there is no risk of plagiarism and the paragraph flows well.

 


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