[header] How to cite a book chapter in apa [title] Write the author's name in the quote introduction instead of the in-text citation. [step] In apa format, you may choose to include the author's name in the introduction to the quote. This is the part of the sentence that is comprised of your own words and leads into the words of the quotation. 
In its most basic form, a quote introduction looks like this: " according to (author's name)... " use the author's last name and first initial, followed by a period.