In-text citations should have years in parenthesis

[msrcodes]

For in-line citations, from what I've seen, APAv7 guidance says that they should follow the format <author(s)> (<year>) however my files are being compiled to <author(s)> <year> (note the lack of parenthesis).

src:

\cite{Fowler1999} stress the importance of writing code that is readable by a human. Readability is not the only benefit of following a style guide. \cite{Zou2019} find that, for pull requests on open source projects, code that follows the style guide of the main codebase is easier to merge and faster to decline.

output:

Fowler et al., 1999 stress the importance of writing code that is readable bya human.  Readability is not the only benefit of following a style guide.  Zouet al.,  2019 find that,  for pull requests on open source projects,  code thatfollows the style guide of the main codebase is easier to merge and faster todecline.

expected output:

Fowler et al., (1999) stress the importance of writing code that is readable bya human.  Readability is not the only benefit of following a style guide.  Zouet al.,  (2019) find that,  for pull requests on open source projects,  code thatfollows the style guide of the main codebase is easier to merge and faster todecline.

guidance src: https://library.port.ac.uk/ref/page714.html#t714

Let me know if this is an issue with this project, or incorrect guidance. Thanks!

[moewew]

Use \parencite for parenthetical citations and \textcite for narrative citations (in APA-speak: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/basic-principles/parenthetical-versus-narrative).

If you are using a \...cite command at the beginning of a sentence, capitalise its first letter (e.g. \Textcite instead of \textcite) in order to obtain correct capitalisation of the cite output.

\documentclass[american]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\usepackage[backend=biber, style=apa]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
Lorem ipsum \parencite{sigfridsson}.

Then, \textcite{sigfridsson} showed that \dots

\Textcite{sigfridsson} argue that \dots

\printbibliography
\end{document}

Lorem ipsum (Sigfridsson & Ryde, 1998). Then, Sigfridsson and Ryde (1998) showed that ... Sigfridsson and Ryde (1998) argue that ...

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You can use \nptextcite for citations in manually generated/typeset parentheses.

(e.g., falsely balanced news coverage; \nptextcite{sigfridsson})

[msrcodes]

Thank you @moewew!