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 Reviews16(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.