How To Use Etc Apa

Citing authors with multiple works from one year.

How to use etc apa. Include the issue number in parentheses immediately after the volume number for all journals that have an issue number. Don t use a comma after etc. Salinger franny and zooey. Use cf to contrast. The equivalent resource for the older apa 6 style can be found here.

For works by more than 20 authors include the names of the first 19 authors followed by an ellipsis and then the final author s name. For sources with four or more authors use the first name followed by et al. These letters are assigned within the reference list which is sorted alphabetically by the surname of the first author. This guide provides information related to the formatting of your paper as in guidelines related to spacing margins word choice etc. Others for example chang 2004 disagreed.

Always put a comma after. If it is at the end of the sentence. Does not need to be spelled out. Though some people think it s cute to use etc more than once in a sentence to stress the fact that many additional items are needed just one etc will suffice. Versus american psychological association more information on abbreviations can be found in sections 6 24 6 31 of the publication manual of the american psychological association 7th ed and in sections 5 12 5 18 ofthe concise guide to apa style 7th ed.

For sources with one two or three authors list all author names in your in text citations whether footnotes or author date. Do not use etc more than once in a sentence. And so forth i e that is viz namely vs. If the dog s imaginary i mean. What you won t find in this guide.

Place of publication is no longer included in references. Examples of et cetera usage less work peter offered cheerily. The official apa style blog wrote a post about using latin abbreviations. Citing multiple works in one parentheses. The use of et al is the same in both styles.