Uses the author-date citation system for citing references in text.

In text reference apa with multiple authors. Initials are included even if year of publication differs. Works with same author s and same year. List specific dates chronologically.

See examples below to learn about how multiple authors for one work are handled in APA parenthetical citations. When using multiple authors names as part of your narrative rather than in parentheses always spell out the word and. Citing multiple works with three or more authors and the same publication year is covered in Section 818 of the APA Publication Manual Seventh Edition.

This guidance is the same as in the 6th edition. For all sources with three to twenty authors you must write out all of the authors on the References page. If two works have the same publication date organize them in the reference.

Include each first authors initials in all citations. Author Surname et al Year page number References. For resources with 21 authors use the names of the first 19 authors followed by ellipsis and the name of the final author ie there should be a maximum of 20 authors included in the reference list entry.

The first reference listed uses a second uses b etc. For in-text citations sources with three or more authors can be abbreviated to Author et. Author Surname First Initial.

APA Manual p266 Section 817. If an author was the lead author for multiple publications that were published in the same year the in-text citations would be identical. Second Initial Author Surname First Initial.