| Single Author | Last name first, followed by the author initials Reich, J.W. (2012). Radical distortion: How emotions warp what we hear. Prometheus. |
| Two to Twenty Authors (list all authors up to twenty) |
List by last names and initials, commas separate author names, last author name is preceded by ampersand (&) Pinheiro, P., Mendes, I., Silva, S., Goncalves, M. M., & Salgado, J. (2018). Emotional processing and therapeutic change in depression: A case study. Psychotherapy, 55(3). 263-274. https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000190. |
| Twenty One or More Authors |
List by last names and initials; commas separate author names. After the nineteenth author's name, use an ellipses (...) in place of the author names then provide the final author name. There should be no more than twenty names listed. Hill, K. G., Patnode, M. L., Bailey, J. A., Hartigan, L. A., Small, C. M., Hamu, A. J., Hawkins, J. D., Easton, W.E., Isenberger, R.J., Ruiz, D.R., Chan, X.T., Thompson, H.S., Johnson, B.W., Iommi, T.T., Butler, G.T., Osbourne, O.J., Young, N.P., Fogerty, J.C., Lynott, P.P., …King, D.R. (2017). Parental alcohol use, parenting, and child on-time development. Infant & Child Development, 26(5), 23-42. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2013.
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| No Author Listed |
If no author is listed, begin your citation with the next field of information. Go ask Alice. (2006). Simon Pulse. |
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