The formatting guidelines below refer to books with three authors. If the book has four or five authors, you would follow this format and add the fourth and fifth author's after the third.
General Format:
In-Text Citation (Paraphrase):
(Author's Last Name, Author's Last Name, & Author's Last Name, year)
In-Text Citation (Direct Quote):
(Author's Last Name, Author's Last Name, & Author's Last Name, year, page number)
References:
Author's Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial., Author's Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial., & Author's Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial. (Year). Book title: Subtitle. Location of publication: Publisher.
Examples:
In-text Citation (Paraphrase):
(Ledlow, Manrodt, & Schott, 2017)
Note: In the first in-text citation, include all of the three to five author's last names. After the first in-text citation, all subsequent in-text citations include the first author's last name, et al., and the year. For example: (Ledlow et al., 2017). See table below for more information.
In-text Citation (Direct Quote):
(Ledlow, Manrodt, & Schott, 2017, p. 52)
References:
Ledlow, G. R., Manrodt, K. B., & Schott, D. (2017). Health care supply chain management: Elements, operations, and strategies. Burlington, MA: Bartlett & Jones Learning.
The formatting guidelines below refer to books with three editors. If the book has four or five editors, you would follow this format and add the fourth and fifth editor's name after the third.
General Format:
In-Text Citation (Paraphrase):
(Editor's Last Name, Editor's Last Name, & Editor's Last Name, year)
In-Text Citation (Direct Quote):
(Editor's Last Name, Editor's Last Name, & Editor's Last Name, year, page number)
References:
Editor's Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial., Editor's Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial., & Editor's Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial. (Eds.). (Year). Book title: Subtitle. Location of publication: Publisher.
Examples:
In-text Citation (Paraphrase):
(Blumenthal, Diclemente, Braithwaite & Smith, 2013)
Note: In the first in-text citation, include all of the three to five editor's last names. After the first in-text citation, all subsequent in-text citations include the first editor's last name, et al., and the year. For example: (Blumenthal et al., 2013). See table below for more information.
In-text Citation (Direct Quote):
(Blumenthal, Diclemente, Braithwaite, & Smith, 2013, p. 52)
References:
Blumenthal, D. S., Diclemente, R.J., Braithwaite, D., & Smith, S.A. (Eds.). (2013). Community-based participatory health research : Issues, methods, and translation to practice. New York: Springer Pub.
If you are looking to cite a book with more than five authors or editors, follow the same format as three to five authors/editors. The only difference is with in-text citations. Even in your first in-text citation, you can shorten to the last name of the first author followed by et al., and the year. For example: Rodgers, Chung, Hightower, Collins, Long, Carr, & Thomas (2016) would be (Rodgers et al., 2016) starting with the first in-text citation. See the table below for more information or page 177 of the APA Manual, 6th Edition.
Citation information has been adapted from the APA Manual (6th Edition). Please refer to pages 176-177 and 184 of the APA Manual (6th Edition) for more information.
-If two or more references of three or more authors/editors and publication year short to the same in-text citation, cite as many last names as needed to differentiate them. Example from p.175 of APA Manual: both Ireys, Chernoff, DeVet, & Kim, 2001 and Ireys, Chernoff, Stein, DeVet, & Silver, 2001 shorten to (Ireys et al., 2001). Instead, use Ireys, Chernoff, DeVet, et al. (2001) and Ireys, Chernoff, Stein, et al. (2001) respectively. Please refer to page 175 of the APA Manual, 6th Edition for more in depth information.
-Be mindful of hyphenated names, particularly hyphenated first names in your reference list. If an author or editor has a hyphenated first name, include first initials for both separated by a hyphen. For example: Lamour, J.-B. for Jean-Baptiste Lamour.
-If your reference list includes publications by two or more authors with the same last name, you should include the first initial in all in-text citations in order to help the reader avoid confusion.
-Suffixes like "Jr." or "III" are not included in in-text citations but are included in the reference list.
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