Select the option which best illustrates the term “in-text reference”. 


Sheldon, P., & Bryant, K. (2016). Instagram: Motives for its use and relationship to narcissism and contextual age. Computers in Human Behavior, 58, 89–97.  


There are over 3.8 billion social media users (Kemp, 2020).  


Figure 14 illustrates the intention of sharing self-promoting and prosocial content between conditions. 


Social media is defined as “websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking”.  

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The option that best illustrates the term “in-text reference” is:

There are over 3.8 billion social media users (Kemp, 2020).

This sentence includes a citation for a source within the text, which is characteristic of an in-text reference.