APA In Text Citation A (Single Author)
Pagnucci (2004) says, “We ought to spend more time collecting good stories for ourselves. We ought to spend more time telling good stories to each other. We ought to spend more of our lives taking part in good stories. And you know exactly the kind of story I mean, where people help each other out and say nice things to each other and do what’s right and honest and fair and just. We could live in that kind of story world. If we wanted to. But we’d all have to set out to tell the right kind of stories” (p. 150).
APA In Text Citation B (Parenthetical Single Author)
One scholar says, “We ought to spend more time collecting good stories for ourselves. We ought to spend more time telling good stories to each other. We ought to spend more of our lives taking part in good stories. And you know exactly the kind of story I mean, where people help each other out and say nice things to each other and do what’s right and honest and fair and just. We could live in that kind of story world. If we wanted to. But we’d all have to set out to tell the right kind of stories” (Pagnucci, 2004, p. 150).
APA In Text Citation C (Multiple Authors)
As Romagnoli and Pagnucci (2004) explain, “Superhero stories have entertained, enthralled, and inspired children and adults alike for over seventy years. These stories are elemental, simple, inspirational, and powerful. Because they tell of ultimate strength, deep despair, unfathomable longing, and immeasurable bravery, superhero stories have been an enduring form of entertainment reflecting American ideals and celebrating the inherent nobility of humankind” (p. 1).
APA In Text Citation D (Parenthetical Multiple Authors)
As these scholars explain, “Superhero stories have entertained, enthralled, and inspired children and adults alike for over seventy years. These stories are elemental, simple, inspirational, and powerful. Because they tell of ultimate strength, deep despair, unfathomable longing, and immeasurable bravery, superhero stories have been an enduring form of entertainment reflecting American ideals and celebrating the inherent nobility of humankind” (Romagnoli & Pagnucci, 2013, p. 1).
APA In Text Citation E (Block Quote)
According to Pagnucci (2004),
We ought to spend more time collecting good stories for ourselves. We ought to spend more time telling good stories to each other. We ought to spend more of our lives taking part in good stories. And you know exactly the kind of story I mean, where people help each other out and say nice things to each other and do what’s right and honest and fair and just. We could live in that kind of story world. If we wanted to. But we’d all have to set out to tell the right kind of stories. (p. 150)
APA In Text Citation F (Quote Within Block Quote)
Kent (1999) provides some insight on what interpretation means:
Writing is a thoroughly interpretative act. By “interpretive act,” postprocess theorists in general mean something rather broad, something like “making sense of” and not just exclusively the ability to move from one code to another. To interpret something means more than only to “translate” or to “paraphrase”; to interpret means to enter into a relation of understanding with other language users. So, understood in this way, interpretation enters into both the reception and the production of discourse. When we read, we interpret specific texts or utterances; when we write, we interpret our readers, our situations, our and other people’s motivations, the appropriate genres to employ in specific circumstances, and so forth. (p. 2)
