Hi Lisa,

The second option is correct; you include the second name so that the reader can tell which source you’re referring to. You don’t use 2020a, 2020b, etc., because as you say, that would imply that the two sources have the same set of authors.

Sorry that this isn’t consistent in the citation generator; we’re aware of the issue and working on fixing it.

This is the issue:
I have two references:

Richardson, M., Dobson, J., Abson, D. J., Lumber, R., Hunt, A., Young, R., & Moorhouse, B. (2020). Applying the pathways to nature connectedness at a societal scale: a leverage points perspective. Ecosystems and People, 16(1), 387–401. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2020.1844296

and

Richardson, M., Passmore, H., Barbett, L., Lumber, R., Thomas, R., & Hunt, A. (2020). The green care code: How nature connectedness and simple activities help explain pro‐nature conservation behaviours. People and Nature, 2(3), 821–839. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10117

I have put them both into your Citation Generator
When I take in text refs for them separately – they both come up as (Richardson et al., 2020), which can’t be right cause how would anyone tell them apart?

BUT when I get in-text refs for them together, they come up as: (Richardson, Dobson, et al., 2020; Richardson, Passmore, et al., 2020)

So now I am a little confused:

Should it be : (Richardson et al., 2020a) and (Richardson et al., 2020b) – even though all the authors are not the same

or should it be: (Richardson, Dobson, et al., 2020) and (Richardson, Passmore, et al., 2020) because the authors are all different

Please can you let me know what to do here I have googled and read the APA manual and cant find an answer

Hope to hear from you soon

Hi David,

With punctuation like a period or comma, the punctuation gets moved or removed, as in your second example. In the case of a question mark or exclamation mark, where you felt it was necessary to retain the punctuation, you might end up with something like: “Quote that is a question?” (Author, date).

In the event that a direct quote ends with punctuation, does the in-text citation go after the end quote with no extra punctuation, add another period, or does the punctuation get moved? For example;
“Direct quote from an article ends with a period.” (Author, date)
“Direct quote from an article ends with a period” (Author, date).
“Direct quote from an article ends with a period.” (Author, date).

Thank you.

Hi Chloe,

Yes, the way you’ve suggested would be the correct way to cite page numbers that are indicated with Roman numerals.

Hi Amie,

APA doesn’t list a special format for citing this kind of author. I’d suggest only mentioning the main author in your in-text citation, and listing the reviewer after the main author in this format in your reference entry: “(with Sauber Millacci, T.).”

https://positivepsychology.com/emotional-intelligence-training/
This is the article I am trying to cite.

Hi Kellie,

The approach APA recommends when a paraphrase continues for two or more sentences is to cite it only in the first sentence. You only need to reintroduce the citation if you refer to another source in between or start a new paragraph.

With APA 7 in-text citations can you write two sentences to paraphrase and then the citation at the end of the two sentences? Or does the citation need to be written twice, at the end of each relevant sentence?

I am usually trying to keep my sentences short at around 20-24 words and so often two sentences are needed to correctly paraphrase.

Thank you for your assistance.