apa style

Write the correct references citations in the body of the text for the following

A recent study (by Smith and Cooper in 2000) found...

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/02/

To cite this study in the body of the text using APA style, you would include the last names of the authors and the year of publication. Here's how you would do it:

According to a recent study (Smith & Cooper, 2000),...

In this case, Smith and Cooper are the authors of the study, and the publication year is 2000. When citing multiple authors, use an ampersand (&) between the last names of the authors, and include the comma before the year of publication.