University of Huddersfield

APA Referencing Guide — Journal articles with three to twenty authors

For the in-text citation, include only the first author's family name followed by et al. and the year.

Format and order
Authors (family name comma, followed by initials, with full stop and space after each initial) (Year of publication). (in round brackets, followed by full stop) Title of article. (first letter capitalised, followed by full stop) Title of Journal, (in italics, all words in title capitalised other than words such as of, in etc., followed by comma) Volume number (in italics, this may be a month, season or number) (Issue) (in round brackets) Page numbers. (without page abbreviations, followed by full stop) https://doi.org/ (if there is a DOI or URL if there is no DOI)
In-text citation
Sahar et al. (1997) identify that… "Mobile phone addiction has become a worldwide problem due to its high occurrence rate, fast growth rate, and serious undesirable consequences" (Liu et al., 2018, p. 247).
Reference list
Sahar, A. D., Brenninkmeyer, S. M., & O'Connell, D. C. (1997). Maya Angelou's inaugural poem. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 26(4), 449-463. Liu, Q.-Q., Zhang, D.-J., Yang, X.-J., Zhang, C.-Y., Fan, C.-Y., & Zhou, Z.-K. (2018). Perceived stress and mobile phone addiction in Chinese adolescents: A moderated mediation model. Computers in Human Behavior, 87, 247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.06.006

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