APA Citation for a undergrad-level book review?

Question

I'm writing a book review for sociology on the book *Sidewalk* by Mitchell Duneier.This book is the ONLY source for my whole paper. It is the only citation that I am using and the only outside source that is discussed.In this case, is it necessary to put an in-text citation with his name every time? Or, could I just put the page numbers in the citation, without the name, since it is only that single source? I'm quoting very short phrases--always less than a sentence.

Answer 1

All the APA guideline resources I reviewed agree that you must continually cite your reference sources, even though I agree with your instinct that this convention produces clunky writing sometimes. When in doubt, cite your sources. It's better to sacrifice some flow rather than run into trouble with plagiarism.

It is possible to minimize parenthetical citations, but you will likely have to restructure some of your sentences.

Your three main options are:

1) Author's name in text, date in parenthesis

2) Author's name and date in parenthesis

3) Author's name and date in text