Parenthetical citation

How it is used

Common in APA and similar styles for in-text referencing. It briefly identifies a source without interrupting the sentence flow.

Example sentences

1. In the literature review, she added a parenthetical citation after the claim so readers could trace the source immediately.

   Here the term means a short source reference inserted in the sentence itself, allowing readers to identify where that claim came from.

2. The editor asked him to replace the footnote with a parenthetical citation to match the journal's required style.

   In this example, the term refers to the required in-text format used by the journal instead of citing the source in a footnote.

Common collocations

• add a parenthetical citation
• use parenthetical citations
• parenthetical citation format

Related terms

• citationA reference to a source in a piece of writing; also each time another publication refers to a work, counted as a measure of its influence.
• in-text citationA short reference inside the main text, such as (Yılmaz, 2021) or a number [3], that points the reader to the full entry in the reference list.

More terms: Citing and Referencing

• cite
• reference list
• paraphrase
• direct quotation
• et al.
• APA style
• bibliography
• DOI
• reporting verb
• footnote
• reference manager
• Harvard referencing