List by last names and initials.

In text citation apa with several authors. Jones Chavez Jackson and Chen 2010 duplicated. Smith Jones Andrews et al 2012. This is a departure from APA 6 which only required listing the first six authors before an ellipsis and the final authors name.

How do you in-text cite three authors in APA. In narrative citations this information is incorporated into the sentence. For more information on citing works by multiple authors see the APA Style and Grammar Guidelines page on in-text citation.

APA American Psychological Association style is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences. See examples below to learn about how multiple authors for one work are handled in APA parenthetical citations. In the in-text citation provide the surname of the author but do not include suffixes such as Jr.

If you are dealing with two editors instead of two 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 see the Example. 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.

In parenthetical citations this structure includes placing the authors last namesurname followed by a comma and the publication year in parentheses. If there are at least six authors then you may use et al from the first mention. To avoid confusion when in-text citations of multiple works with three or more authors shorten to the same form write out as many authors names as necessary to distinguish the citations and abbreviate the remaining names to et al in every citation.

Book with editors and authors Martin 1978 Martin E. In all cases you should use the last name of the first author followed by et al in your in-text citation. This structure requires that any in-text citation ie within the body of the text be accompanied by a corresponding reference list entry.