How To Cite Reference List With Multiple Authors In APA
In citing an Author or Authors at the Reference List in APA , the rules underlined below are applies to all APA-style reference written by one or more authors as should be written at the reference list, irrespective of the kind of work (article, journal, book or electronic source)
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One Author
Start with the last name of the author and include the author’s initials.
An Example is here:
Olego, W. J. (2012). What makes a marriage to work?Current Directions in family issue, 19, 5-16.
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Two Authors
Include their last names followed by their initials. The ampersand (&) is used and not “and.”
An Example is here:
MacDonald, A. T., &Brown, G. E. (2014). Mood control among teenagers: The behavioral premise. Journal of Social Psychology, 7, 204-248.
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Three to Seven Authors
Include their last names followed by their initials; commas are used to separate each author names, but an ampers and precedes the last author name.
An Example is here:
Kerry, M. T., Sharma, V. P., Moon, C. B., Singh, A., Holland, T., &Barry, J. U. (2013).How to build your self-esteem: The significance of believing in yourself. Journal of Social Psychology, 6, 295-304.
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More Than Seven Authors
Include their last names followed by their initials; commas are used to separate each author names,when you reach the sixth author’s, use ellipses to represent the author name. Follow this with the final name of the author.
As such, the reference should not have over seven names.
An Example is here:
Allington, R. L., McGill-Franzen, A., Camilli, G., Williams, L., Graff, J., Zeig, J., … Nowak, R (2010). Addressing Summer Reading Setback Among Economically Disadvantaged Elementary Students. Reading Psychology, 31(5), 411-427.
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Organization as Author
An Example is here:
American Sociological Association.(2010).
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Anonymous Author
An Example is here:
Understanding Madness, Mental Illness and Mental Health.(2010.). Mental Health Worldwide. doi:10.1057/9781137329608.0007
N/B: Supposing in your essay you put parenthetical citation of works that have no author name, use a shot version of the work’s title in the place of author’s name. Ensure that you use italics and quotation marks in an appropriate way.
For the source above, the way it should be cited is as follows: (Understanding Madness, 2010).
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Two or more sources by the one author
Include author’s name for any entry made and list these entries based on the year of publication (starting with the earliest).
An Example is here:
Chudasama, Y. (2010).
Chudasama, Y. (2012).
Where the author has written a source alone and also with another author/s and appears as the first one, start with the works in which he/she is the sole author.
An Example is here:
Lacour, M. (2011).The effects of poverty on academic achievement.Educational Research and Reviews, 6(7), 522-527.
Lacour, M.,&Tissington, L. D. (2010).The effects of poverty on academic achievementamong university students.Educational Research and Reviews, 6(7), 522-527.
Sources with the same first author but different second/third authors have to be arranged alphabetically based on the last name of the subsequent author/s.
Supposing the first and second authors are the same on both references, and then the third and subsequent author/s will be arranged alphabetically.
An Example is here:
Padhi, A., Chudasama, Y., &Fineberg, N. A.(2010). Yale–Brown Obsessive–Compulsive Scale.Journal of Psychopharmacology, 9, 1157-1177.
Padhi, A., Brown, Y., &Wellberg, N. A.(2013). Attitude change implications for health care providers.Journal of Psychopharmacology, 2, 159-187.
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Two or more sources by the one author published same year
Supposing you are referencing two or more works by one author/s written in the same year, arrange them alphabetically in the reference list based on their title or chapter. To differentiate them assign them letter suffixes after the year.
Include these sources within the essay written for you as arranged in the reference list.
For example, “Lacour (2011a) underlines that…..”
Lacour, M. (2010a). Impacts of poverty on academic achievement.Educational Research and Reviews, 6(7), 522-527.
Lacour, M.(2010b). The effects of poverty on academic achievement among university students.Educational Research and Reviews, 6(7), 522-527.
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Introductions, Forewords, After words and Prefaces
When citing information about a source (for example a book) maintain the usual citation system, but cite Introductions, Forewords, Afterwords and Prefaces (whatsoever the title used) in the same way a chapter of a book is cited.
An Example is here:
Nguyen,T., &Sajous, A.F.(2014). Introduction.In R. M. Kerry (Ed.), Auxiliaries and English syntax (pp. 3-9). Needham, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
