Scholarship is a conversation. When you cite, you are referring to another's work and giving them proper credit. You are giving your readers the opportunity to delve deeper into the topic by providing your references. You are also showing that you are building on scientific research from the past and how your ideas fit into the future!

For every entry in your list of references at the end of your paper, there must be at least one corresponding in-text citation.

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Example #1

In-text citation in the body of your paper:

Ocean sprawl (Heery et al., 2017) has numerous effects on ...

Reference:

Heery, E. C., Bishop, M. J., Critchley, L. P., Bugnot, A. B., Airoldi, L., Mayer-Pinto, M., … Dafforn, K. A. (2017). Identifying the consequences of ocean sprawl for sedimentary habitats. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 492, 31–48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2017.01.020

‌If the DOI is not given as a URL, then give the DOI in that format.
doi: 10.1016/j.jembe.2017.01.020

If there is no DOI available, then give the URL.
Retrieved from https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-experimental-marine-biology-and-ecology/ 

Example #2

In-text citation in the body of your paper:

According to Strzyz (2019), epithelial cells in the intestinal migrate collectively.

Reference

Strzyz, P. (2019). Cryptic migration. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41580-019-0170-y

More examples are in the APA Formatting and Style Guide for Electronic Sources and In-Text Citations: Author/Authors at Purdue Online Writing Lab.