Apa Referencing More Than 6 Authors In Reference List
For references with the same author and year the references are arranged alphabetically by title ignoring a or the.
Apa referencing more than 6 authors in reference list. Apa citation style guide 6th ed. References by the same author or by the same group of authors in the same order are arranged by year of publication in the reference list with the earliest first. Use an ampersand before the last author s name. 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.
It will remain online until 2021 but will not be updated. Three or more authors. The following rules for handling works by a single author or multiple authors apply to all apa style references in your reference list regardless of the type of work book. The equivalent apa 7 page can be found here.
And then the last author s name in the. Is a latin abbreviation for and others for a reference list entries list the first 20 author names. For an in text citation. When an article has more than seven authors replace the names prior to the final listed author with an ellipsis but do not omit the final author.
The apa 6th edition recommends including the names of up to seven authors in a reference list entry. A citation should never have more than 7 names. And then the final author. If an article has more than seven authors list the names of the first six authors followed by.
6 or more authors. When there are more than 20 authors. Cairns et al 2009 or cairns et al. Davis y smith j caulfield f pullman h carlisle j donahue s.
Example 1 in text citation paraphrase. The first six authors followed by. The equivalent resource for the older apa 6 style can be found here. The purpose of the reference list is to allow your sources to be be found by your reader.
This page reflects the latest version of the apa publication manual i e apa 7 which released in october 2019. The remainder of the reference follows the same format as that for 20 or fewer authors. It also gives credit to authors you have consulted for their ideas. If an article has more than seven authors list the names of.
And then the last author s name in the reference entry. The following rules for handling works by a single author or multiple authors apply to all apa style references in your reference list regardless of the type of work book article electronic resource etc. This page reflects apa 6 which is now out of date. List the last names and initials of the first 6 authors.
All references cited in the text must appear in the reference list except for personal communications such as conversations or emails which cannot be retrieved. D o brien t. Cite only the first author followed by et al.