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How to in text cite a journal article apa with multiple authors. Author Surname et al Year page number References. Second Initial Author Surname First Initial. Author Surname Author Surname Author Surname Year NOTE.

An APA Style citation for a journal article includes the author name s publication year article title journal name volume and issue number page range of the article and a DOI if available. Citing Sources with No Author. List by last names and initials.

This means that the authors last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text for example Jones 1998 and a complete reference should appear in the reference list at the end of the paper. In APA citation of journal articles never list more than 20 authors. After that use the first authors last name followed by et al.

When an article has one to seven authors all authors names are cited in the References List entry. When using APA format follow the author-date method of in-text citation. Field 2005 Two authors.

Click here for APA 6th edition guidelines. If you are citing a source that has multiple authors follow these basic steps. When an article has eight or more authors list the first six authors followed by three spaced ellipse points and then the last authors name.

After the 19th author add a comma then an ellipsis followed by the final author name. For more than 20 authors list the first 19 followed by an ellipses then list the final author. For multiple authors names within a parenthetic citation use.