If you are dealing with a book that has three to five editors instead of authors you would simply insert the names of the editors into the place where the authors names are now followed by Eds without the quotation marks as per the example.

How to reference multiple authors apa in text. Johnson and Smith 2009 found. For any source with more than two authors APA 7th in-text citation is shortened by using et al meaning and others after the first authors name. Author last names and initials are followed by the date of publication enclosed in parentheses.

Always cite both authors names in-text everytime you reference them. Al year from the first use. The letters are allocated in the reference list where references with the same first author last names are organised alphabetically by title.

164 or Lewis 2016 pp. The remainder of the reference follows the same format as that for 20 or fewer authors. For a work with up to 20 authors include all of the names in the reference.

The first reference listed uses a second uses b etc. The general format below refers to a book with three or more authors. For single page pp.

A page number is included when using a direct quote. When a work is credited to more than 20 authors the reference is listed by providing the names of the first 19 authors followed by. Place a comma after the year.

After the first 19 authors names use an ellipsis in place of the remaining author names. Jones Chavez Jackson and Chen 2010 duplicated. Only list the first author with the Latin abbreviation et al for any subsequent references.