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. Include the surname of the first author followed by et al if the source you re citing has 4 or more authors type the surname of the first author listed on the title page followed by a space and the abbreviation et al then type a space and add the year the source was published. The use of et al is the same in both styles. 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.