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APA – Citing Sources

Three or more authors

In-text citation:

For sources with three or more authors, the first author is given followed by et al.

  • According to a previously mentioned survey, it also appears that . . . (Norling et al., 2010).
  • Norling et al. (2010) further state that . . .

If two citations are the same, add as many author names as necessary to make the citations different:

  • This has both Kapoor, Bloom, Montez, et al. (2017) and Kapoor, Bloom, Zucker, et al. (2017) reported on.