[header] How to cite a website in text in apa [title] Use parentheses at the end of the phrase you are citing. [step] Always start the in-text citation with parentheses after the phrase you are quoting. The in-text citation should appear at the end of a sentence to adhere to apa style guidelines. 
[substeps] For example, you may write: " mortality rates are increasing for infants in the united states (healey , 2001). " [title] Note the author's full last name.