~ Cite sources: Lets the reader know what research, ideas, or theories influenced the author of the article. Provides authority and support for positions taken in the document. Recognizes others in the field by giving credit for their original work. In-text citations also serve as research tools. Because in-text citations are made up of the former. By Chelsea Lee. Audiovisual media such as videos, podcasts, films, and television shows can be excellent sources for academic papers. To direct the reader of an article to a specific location in an audiovisual source, such as when citing a direction, include a timestamp in APA style in -textual citation, just as you would web page citations in APA style consists of five elements: author, publication date, title, website name, and URL. Unfortunately, some of these components are sometimes missing. For example, there may be no author or publication date. This article explains how to handle different types and combinations of missing information. The year of the in-text citation should match the year of entry in the reference list, but not include the month or day. Example: In text: 2019 Reference list: 2019. Use nd when there is no date. For use in press when works are accepted, in-text citations in APA. APA format uses in-text citations to credit the work of others, as opposed to footnotes or other methods. Specifically, it uses an author-date citation system, which includes the primary author's last name and year of publication. There are two types of in-text citations: parenthetical and narrative. There are three main approaches: Parenthetical citations: you include identifying details of the source in parentheses in the text, usually the author's last name and date of publication, plus a page number if relevant, author -date Sometimes the publication date is omitted, author-page Numerical citations: you include a number,