How To Use Et Al In Text Citation

In apa 7 for a work with three or more authors list the first author and et al for all citations including the first citation unless doing so would create ambiguity.

How to use et al in text citation. Chicago manual of style cms. For sources with one two or three authors list all author names in your in text citations whether footnotes or author date. For more than ten authors only the first seven are listed in the bibliography but the first author s name followed by et al is used in in text citations. The use of et al is the same in both styles. Note that this rule has changed from apa 6 guidelines on using et al which recommend listing all author names in the first citation up to five authors but then using et al for the second and subsequent citations.