Parenthetical citation
Explain & Define, Dylan Thompson
Define:
Parenthetical citations are citations to original sources that appear in the text of your paper.
Explain:
The Purpose of Parenthetical citation is to allow the reader to quickly identify the sources of a certain fact or quote without strenuous search through an extensive works cited page.
The APA style calls for three kinds of information to be included in in-text citations. The author's last name and the work's date of publication must always appear, and these items must match exactly the corresponding entry in the references list. The third kind of information, the page number, appears only in a citation to a direct quotation.