Apa Lots Of Authors

The information below is copied with permission from the APA's official blog, and contains many useful links to examples, tutorials, explanations and frequently asked questions about APA style.

Best of the APA Style Blog

1. The main contributors of the source, normally the author, are placed before the title. If there is more than one author, arrange the authors in the same order found in the source. Use the first and middle name initials and the entire last name. Inverse all names before the title.
2. APA Coaching: The first time you cite sources with 2–5 authors, list all the authors and date of publication e.g., Smith, Jones and Harris, 2015. Subsequent citations to the same reference.
3. Three–20 Authors 20+ Authors APA format establishes a number of clear rules for how to list reference works using author information. How you reference different sources varies depending on the number of authors to whom the source is attributed.

Information on citing and several of the examples were drawn from the APA Manual (6th ed.). Book with six or seven authors Use only the first author’s name and ‘et al.’ the first time you discuss the research and thereafter. Information on citing and several of the examples were drawn from the APA Manual (6th ed.). Book with eight or more authors For the in-text citation for a book with eight or more authors, include the first author and then 'et al.'

Each fall the APA Style Blog Team puts together a “best of” feature, and this year we continue the tradition with an updated set of posts from the APA Style Blog and our parent site, apastyle.org. We hope it will be helpful as new batches of students set upon the task of learning and implementing APA Style. You can get the full story in our sixth edition Publication Manual (also available as an e-book for Kindle) and our APA Style Guide to Electronic References, plus more information via the links below.

APA Style Basic Principles

How in-text citations work
How reference list entries work (and how to handle missing information)
How to find the example you need in the Publication Manual
The principle of “cite what you see, cite what you use”

Student Resources

Citing a class or lecture
School intranet or Canvas/Blackboard class website materials
Classroom course packs and custom textbooks
Research participant interview data
Reference lists versus bibliographies
MLA versus APA Style (in-text citations and the reference list)

“How-To” Citation Help

E-books
Interviews
Legal references
Paraphrased work
Mobile apps
Secondary sources (sources you found in another source) and why to avoid them
Social media (Facebook, Twitter, and Google+)
Website material
YouTube videos

Paper Formatting

Apa Citation Lots Of Authors

Block quotations
Capitalization
Fonts
Headings
Lists (lettered, numbered, or bulleted)
Margins
Running heads
Spelling
Statistics

Apa Style Lots Of Authors

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