Assist. Prof. Dr. Rana Hamid Abdullah al-Bahrani, a faculty member at the department of English language and editor-in-chief of the college journal has presented a virtual course on “How to cite sources using APA 7th Referencing Style” via the Free Conference Call website in coordination with the continuing education unit and in the presence of a number of professors and postgraduate students. The lecturer first gave an overview of the basics of this author/date system used for citing references for all formats (e-books, journal articles, web documents, pictures, shapes, maps and video films posted on Facebook, theses and dissertations) which consists of two main types, namely in-text citation and the reference list.

In-text citations must be included following the use of a quote or paraphrase taken from another piece of work, related to (author or authors and year of publication), so they can be defined as those citations inserted within the main body of the text and refer to a direct quote or paraphrase that correspond to a reference in the main reference list. The reference list is a complete list of references used in a piece of writing and are alphabetically ordered including the author name, date of publication, title and more. Then Rana al-Bahrani dealt with the two in-text citations formats: (the narrative and parenthetical formats), stating that in narrative citations, the author name is incorporated into the text as part of the sentence and the year follows in parentheses, while in parenthetical citations, the author name and publication date appear in parentheses.

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