| Author Type | Details | In-Text Citations |
| General / 1 Author | Use the surname of the author for your in-text citation. | (Mathews, 2010, p. 14) |
| 2 Authors |
Parenthetical Citations Narrative Citations |
(Smith & Miller, 2009) Smith and Miller (2009) |
| 3 or more Authors |
Parenthetical Citations Narrative Citations |
(Smith et al., 2009) Smith et al. (2009) |
| Organizational Authors |
If the author of a work is an organization, company, or group, list that group's full name in the in-text citation.
If the organization has a common acronym, you may introduce it in your first in-text citation and then use the abbreviation in all subsequent citations: |
(Santa Fe College, 2019)
(American Library Association [ALA], 2010) (ALA, 2010) |
| No Author | If there is truly no author for a reference, you use the title, or first few words of the title. Note that you should capitalize the words in the title for the in-text citation. Place in quotation marks if the title is an article or chapter. Italicize if it is a book, webpage, etc. |
(“How To Find,” 2019) (Oxford English Dictionary, 2010) |