: Re: Citing an article with multiple authors in APA style I have been trying to go through Mayfield Book on Technical Writing to find out how to do an in-text and parenthetical citation of a source

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For a work by two authors, you either name both authors in the single phrase, or in the parentheses each time you make reference to the work. For example:

Foo and Bar (1994) note that the world did not end.
The world did not end (Foo & Bar, 1994).

For a work by three to five authors (which is what applies to your example), list all five names the first time you cite the work in either a single phrase or in parenthesis.

Foo, Bar and Nom (1994) note that the world did not end.
The world did not end (Foo, Bar & Nom, 1994).

Then, for each subsequent citation use the first author's last name followed by "et al.".

(Foo et al., 1994)

For six or more authors, you always use the first author's last name, followed by "et al.", either within the phrase or in parenthesis.

Foo et al. (1994) note that the world did not end.
The world did not end (Foo et al., 1994).

Source: owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/03/

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