Insert citations for manuscripts within your text as you are writing it. APA requires the last name of the author and year of publication for manuscript citations. You can provide the citation in one of these ways:
Brown (2011) found...
In 2011 Brown found...
One researcher (Brown, 2011) found...
When citing multiple authors of a manuscript, insert all names as well as the year of publication. For example:
Hawkins, Jones and Webster (2009) discovered...
In 2009 Hawkins, Jones and Webster discovered...
Some researchers (Hawkins, Jones & Webster, 2009) discovered...
Use the names of all authors the first time a manuscript is cited. After that you can use the name of the first author followed by et al. For example, In 2009 Hawkins, et al. discovered...
If you are citing a manuscript that is in progress or submitted for publication, give that information at the end of the reference. Provide the author(s) name, year of publication, title of publication followed by a period. Then add, "Manuscript in preparation," or "Manuscript submitted for publication." Do not include the name of the publisher or journal to which the manuscript has been submitted.
When you cite a manuscript that is available on a university website, provide that information at the end of the reference. For example, "Unpublished manuscript, Department of Psychology, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida."
When you cite a manuscript that is informally published or available from the author's archive, provide the location where it can be retrieved at the end of the reference. For example, "Retrieved from http:// name of archive/number of archive."
If a manuscript has been accepted for publication, put "in press" in place of the year of publication.