BOOKS WITH THREE OR MORE AUTHORS.

In text citation apa two authors book. For more information on citing works by multiple authors see the APA Style and Grammar Guidelines page on in-text citation. Only list the first author with the Latin abbreviation et al for any subsequent references. This is a departure from APA 6 which only required listing the first six authors before an ellipsis and the final authors name.

Authors Last Name First Initial. First and Subsequent Citations In-text. How do you cite two in text citations.

One complete reference for each source should appear in the reference list at. Instead list up to 20 authors in full. Authors Last Name Authors Last Name year page number References.

This means that the authors last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text like for example Jones 1998. Lets go back to the purposes of citation - one of them is to enable others to find the material you are citing. APA in-text citations include the authors last name publication date and if relevant a locator such as a page number or timestamp.

Always cite both authors names in-text everytime you reference them. Jones Chavez Jackson and Chen 2010 duplicated. Parenthetical citation for two authors.

1st Author 2nd Author Year Published. The formatting guidelines below refer to books with two authors. If more than 20 authors list the first 20 authors followed by followed by the last author.