When using the American Psychological Association (APA) style of in-text citation, in the text itself you should include only the author's name, the year, and, if you are quoting directly, the page number. These should all be in parentheses. For the purposes of this example, assume that you are citing the Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1977 paperback edition of Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories. In the text, you would write (O'Connor, 1977). If you were quoting from page 30 of this book, your in-text citation would be (O'Connor, 1977, p. 30).

In the references section at the end of your essay, you would then list the book as follows:

O'Connor, F. (1977). A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

However, since this is a book of short stories, you will need to amend the book citation to refer specifically to the title story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" (or any other story in the book). The full reference, including the story, will therefore be as follows:

O'Connor, F. (1977). A Good Man Is Hard to Find. In A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (pp. 27–42). New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

The page numbers here are just an example, but you should include the page numbers, and they should be in this format. As shown here, the title of the book should be italicized, but the title of the story should not be in quotation marks.