Citing an Author or Authors.

How to do in text citations for apa with multiple authors. Second Initial Author Surname First Initial. A Work by Two Authors. Then order works with dates in chronological order.

One complete reference for each source should appear in. After that use the first authors last name followed by et al. In parenthetical citations this structure includes placing the authors last namesurname followed by a comma and the publication year in parentheses.

Parenthetical citation at the end of a sentence General Format. No date citations go first then years then in-press citations. Studies indicate that polar bear populations will dramatically decline as Arctic ice melts Jedden 2006.

If it spans a page range use pp An APA in-text citation can be parenthetical or narrative. For a work with three or more authors include the name of only the first author plus et al in every citation even the first citation. Provide all the authors last names when you first refer to a document with 3-5 authors.

Research by Wegener and Petty 1994 supported. The Basics Purdue Writing Lab. Smith et al 2013.

Arrange two or more works by the same authors by year of publication. Author Surname First Initial. To cite a direct quote in APA you must include the authors last name the year and a page number all separated by commas.