Last name, First initial, & Last name, first initial. (Date). Title. Publisher, Edition, Page numbers.
Wegener, D. T., Petty, R. E. (1994). Mood management across affective states: The hedonic contingency
hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 1034-1048.
Last name, First initial., Last name, First initial., & Last name, First Initial. (Date). Title. Publisher, Edition, Page
numbers.
Kernis, M. H., Cornell, D. P., Sun, C. R., Berry, A., Harlow, T., & Bach, J. S. (1993). There's more to self-esteem
than whether it is high or low: The importance of stability of self-esteem. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 65, 1190-1204.
List the first six authors followed by three ellipsis dots and the last author's name.
Miller, F. H., Choi, M. J., Angeli, L. L., Harland, A. A., Stamos, J. A., Thomas, S. T., . . . Rubin, L. H. (2009). Web
site usability for the blind and low-vision user. Technical Communication, 57, 323-335.
Use the author's name and the year of publication date with the earliest year coming first. If the author did one piece by themselves and another piece as a group where their name is the first one listed, put the solo piece first.
Last name, First Initial. (Date). Title of article. Journal, Volume, Page numbers.
Last name, First Initial., & Last name, First Initial. (Date). Title of article. Journal, Volume, Page numbers.
Berndt, T. (1999). Friends' influence on students' adjustment to school. Educational Psychologist, 34, 15-28.
Berndt, T., Keefe, K. (1995). Friends' influence on adolescents' adjustment to school. Child Development, 66,
1312-1329.
If there is a reference with multiple authors and the first author is the same, put the references in alphabetical order based on the second author's name.
Wegener, D.T., Kerr, N.L., Fleming, M.A., Petty, R.E. (2000). Flexible corrections of juror judgments: Implications
for jury instructions. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 6, 629-654.
Wegener, D.T., Petty, R.E., & Klein, D.J. (1994). Effects of mood on high elaboration attitude change: The
mediating role of likelihood judgments. European Journal of Social Psychology, 24, 25-43.
According to Purdue OWL, "When the work does not have an author move the title of the work to the beginning of the references and follow with the date of publication. Only use 'Anonymous ' if the author is the work is signed 'Anonymous.' This is a new addition to APA 7."
Name both authors in the single phrase or in the parenthesis each time you cite the work. Use the word "and" between the author's names within the text and use the ampersand in the parenthesis.
Ex. Research by Wegener and Petty (1994) supports...
(Wegener & Petty, 1994)
Only write the first author's name, followed by et al.
Ex. (Kernis et al., 1993, 1190)
If you have two sources by the same author in the same year, use lower-case letters (a, b, c) with the year to order the entries in the reference list. Use the lower-case letters with the year in the in-text citation.
Ex. Research by Berndt (1981a) illustrated that...
To prevent confusion, use first initials with the last names.
Ex. (E. Johnson, 2001; L. Johnson, 1998)
If a book has more than one author, order them in the same way that they are presented in the book. The first name appears in last name, first name format; subsequent author names appear in first name last name format.
Ex. Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Allyn and Bacon, 2000.
When there are three or more authors, list only the first author followed by et al. (Latin for "and others") in place of the subsequent authors' names. (Note that there is a period after "al" in "et al." Also note that there is never a period after "et" in "et al.").
Ex. Wysocki, Anne Frances, et al. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Utah State UP, 2004.
Name the authors in a single phrase, as in the example given below, or include their last names in the parenthetical reference: (Gostin and Gostin 214).
Ex. As the legal scholars Gostin and Gostin explain "[I]nterventions that do not pose a truly significant burden on individual liberty" are justified if they "go a long way towards safeguarding the health and well-being of the populace" (214).
Give the first author's name followed by "et al." in the signal phrase and in the parenthetical citation.
Ex. Only after results were reviewed by an independent panel did the researchers publish their findings (Blaine et al. 35).
Include the authors' first names in the single phrase or first initial in parentheses.
Ex. One approach to the problem is to introduce nutrition literacy at the K-5 level in public schools (E. Chen 15).
Bibliography:
Two to Three Authors: Authors' names listed in order of appearance with lead author last name first.
Example: Rowling, J.K., Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. London: Pottermore, 2016.
Footnote: The footnotes will be similar to the bibliography, with all authors' names listed as first and then last name and with commas replacing the periods in each citation. Shortened versions of footnotes will list all three authors' last names.
Example: J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (London: Pottermore, 2016), 110.
Rowling, Thorne, and Tiffany, Harry Potter, 110.
Four or More Authors: If there are four or more authors, use et. al after the name of the first author.
Example: Heisler, J. et al. "Eutrophication and Harmful Algal Blooms: A Scientific Consensus." Harmful Algae 8, no. 1 (2008): 3-13.
Footnote: The footnotes will be similar to the bibliography, with et. al after the name of the first author.
Example: J. Heisler et al., "Eutrophication and Harmful Algal Blooms: A Scientific Consensus," Harmful Algae 8, no. 1 (2008): 3.
Heislet et al., "Eutrophication," 5.