Apa Citation Style For A Book With Several Authors

Three or more authors.

Apa citation style for a book with several authors. The general format below refers to a book with two authors. If you are citing a source that has multiple authors follow these basic steps. Use an ampersand before the last author s name.

The rest of the format would remain the same. 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 an in text citation.

The in text citation for works with three or more authors is shortened to the first author s name followed by et al. Author surname et al year page number references. Cairns et al 2009 or cairns et al.

Always cite both authors names in text everytime you reference them. In text citation direct quote. Parenthetical citation for one author.

Is a latin abbreviation for and others for a reference list entries list the first 20 author names. In narrative citations this information is incorporated into the sentence. Second initial author surname first initial.

You should also use an ampersand instead of writing out and before the last author s name. Author surname first initial. Author last name year published curtis 2020.