Two authors or editors apa citation style, 7th edition. Book with two authors or editors the general format below refers to a book with two authors. Apa style citation of book with organization as author tex. The correct reference style should be something like the following. Apa style has a series of important rules on using author names as part of the authordate system. Information on citing and several of the examples were drawn from the apa manual 6th ed. By david becker dear apa style experts, i want to cite an illustrated book and give proper credit to the illustrator, but i cant find an example of how. If you are using more than one reference by the same authoror the same group of authors listed in the same orderpublished in the same year, first check to see if they have more specific dates this recommendation is new to apa 7. For example, the way that you reference a single author will differ somewhat from how you reference a source with multiple authors. This page reflects the latest version of the apa publication manual i. If you are dealing with two editors instead of two authors, you would simply insert the names of the editors into the place where the authors names are now, followed by eds. How you reference different sources varies depending on the number of authors to whom the source is attributed. Apa citation book by two authors publication manual of the american psychological association, 6th ed.
How do you cite two or more references within the same. Book with two authors apa 6th edition university of. Use the lowercase letters with the year in the intext citation. Book with two authors intext citation paraphrase with the author s in the sentence. The equivalent resource for the older apa 6 style can be found here. Book with organization as author american psychological association rules for formatting papers, intext citations, and end references. Name both authors in the signal phrase or in parentheses each time you cite the work. Order the citations of two or more works by different authors within the same parentheses alphabetically in the same order in which they appear in the reference list including citations that would otherwise shorten to et al. If you have two sources by the same author in the same year, use lowercase letters a, b, c with the year to order the entries in the reference list. There are additional rules for citing indirect sources, electronic sources, and sources without page numbers. Two or more works by the same author in the same year. Apa format establishes a number of clear rules for how to list reference works using author information.