When quoting a short amount of text, you'll want to start your sentence by attributing the information to the author of the text. For example, you'll want to write "According to Smith..." or "Smith explains..." followed by the year of publication in parentheses. Place quotes around the quoted material, and integrate the quote smoothly into your sentence to make it flow with the rest of the paper. For longer blocks of text, use the same style to cite the author, but place a colon after the reference and place the quoted text in paragraph form on the next line. After both long and short quotations, place the page number in parentheses after the text. For example, put (p.131) after quoted text.
All references listed on your bibliography will have a normal first line, then an indent on the second and all following lines. This is referred to as a hanging indent. References all begin by citing the author with the last name first, followed by a comma, then the first name. List these references in alphabetical order by the last name of the author. Italicize titles of books and journals, but not shorter works such as articles or collections of essays. Capitalize all the major words in journal titles. Include the entire web URL if quoting an article or other material found on the Internet.
Shorter sections of text can be paraphrased or quoted directly, but you must follow each citation with the author's last name and the page number in parentheses. For example, after your quoted text, you would write (Smith 49). However, if you mention the author's name in your citation, all you need is the page number in parentheses after the quotation. If the author is unknown, list the title of the article or other work in quotations, followed by the page number in parentheses. Longer blocks of quoted text should also be followed with the author's name and page number in parentheses.
Just as with APA format, you need to list authors in a works cited page alphabetically according to last name. Titles of larger works such as books and magazines need to be italicized, while shorter works such as poems and articles need to have quotes put around the title. As of 2009, a web URL is no longer required for online sources, but if your source is an article that was published in print and added to an online database, add the name of the database in italics to your citation.