This subject guide provides information about the 6th edition of the APA Publication Manual. Information about the 7th edition of the APA Publication Manual may be found on a separate subject guide, linked below.
From page 169 of the 6th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
Citation using authors' names in sentence
Smith and Jones (2013) found that using .....
Parenthetical citation
... as was discovered earlier (Smith & Jones, 2013).
Other examples for various numbers and types of authors appear on pages 174-179
First and subsequent citations for the same source may be different depending on number and/or type of authors. See Table 6.1 on page 177 for a convenient listing.
(All page numbers refer to the 6th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association)
In short, no!!
APA requires that you cite each sentence in which you paraphrase, describe, or directly quote from another's ideas, works, or research.
Remember, in a professional paper, you should be synthesizing information not just summarizing. Many times when this question comes up, students are really just using individual paragraphs to summarize individual articles. Instead of summarizing, you should probably look for ways in which your various articles agree/disagree and what unique points or insights appear in each so that you can combine (synthesize) the information to write a much more robust paragraph. If you only have one article which addresses a particular portion of your paper, you may need to find additional information(articles).
More information about this can be found in the APA book (6th ed., Section 1.10, p. 15 & 16) and at the link shown below.
