More than twenty authors
In-text citations
Paraphrasing
- Use only the first listed author's family name followed by et al. (a Latin abbreviation meaning ‘and others’) and year of publication.
Veronese et al. (2015) identified . . .
Direct quote
Place direct quotes between double quotation marks " " and provide the page number(s) from the book.
Veronese et al. (2015) state that "Aging is substantially characterised by changes in body composition..." (p. 1002).
Reference list
Template
Author. (Year). Title: Subtitle (# ed., Vol. #). Publisher. http://dx.doi.org/xxxxx
Example
Veronese, N., Cereda, E., Solmi, M., Fowler, S. A., Manzato, E., Maggi, S., Manu, P., Abe, E., Hayashi, K., Allard, J. P., Arendt, B. M., Beck, A., Chan, M., Audrey, Y. J. P., Lin, W. ‐Y, Hsu, H. ‐S, Lin, C. ‐C, Diekmann, R., Kimyagarov, S., … Correll, C. U. (2015). Inverse relationship between body mass index and mortality in older nursing home residents: a meta‐analysis of 19,538 elderly subjects. Obesity Reviews, 16(11), 1001–1015. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.12309
Notes on style
- List the first nineteen authors followed by three ellipsis points (. . .) then the last author.
- If the book has a DOI, include this even if you consulted the print version.