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APA7 Guide

In text citation

  • When citing an article written by three to twenty authors you should list the first author in the in-text reference followed by ‘et al.’
  • For the reference list, list every author separated by a comma, and an ampersand before the last author.

Paraphrase

Template:

            (Author et al., Year)

            OR

            Author et al. (Year)

For example:

Prescott et al. (2021) compare and contrast the creation of settler monuments in South Africa and Utah.

The candidate’s site "stickiness" is not determined by popularity (Wattal et al. 2010).

Direct quote

Template:

            (Author et al., Year, p./pp. Page number/s)

            OR

            Author et al. (Year, p./pp. Page number/s)

For example:

“This essay will argue that a close reading of these monuments reveals how each white settler group employed gendered depictions that were inflected by class and race” (Prescott et al. 2021, p. 1).

Wattal et al. (2010, p. 670) conclude that, "[p]olitics in the United States has come a long way".

Reference list

Template:

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., Author, C. C., & Author, D. D. (year). Title of the article. Title of the Journal, vol(issue), p–p. http://doi.org/xxxx

For example:

Prescott, C., Rees, N., & Weaver-Hightower, R. (2021). Enshrining Gender in Monuments to Settler Whiteness: South Africa’s Voortrekker Monument and the United States’ This Is the Place Monument. Humanities, 10(41), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.3390/h10010041

Wattal, S., Schuff, D., Mandviwalla, M., & Williams, C.B. (2010). Web 2.0 and politics: the 2008 U.S. presidential election and an e-politics research agenda. MIS Quarterly, 34(4), 669-688. https://doi.org/10.2307/25750700