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APA Formatting and Using Scholarly Literature for Nursing and Allied Health

answer key

Answer key:

  1. A narrative citation places some of the citation information (author last name and date of publication) at the beginning of the sentence and within your own writing (your narrative). Example: Mills (2022) shows that "financial gain increased after such interventions" (p. 56). A parenthetical citation places all the citing elements at the end of the sentence inside parentheses. Example: "Financial gain increased after such interventions (Mill, 2022, p. 56).
  2. Here is one possible example of a parenthetical in-text citation: 
    • The "U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has prematurely ended a $125 million program aimed at identifying viruses in animals that might harm humans (Cohen, 2023).
  3. Here is one possible narrative in-text citation for the quote provided (note there is no page number):
    • The Margo and Farrell study (2020) found that "One in 4 women and one in 10 men experience IPV, and violence can take various forms: it can be physical, emotional, sexual, or psychological"