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How do you change APA citations to show "et al"
Having the APA function in MS word is fantastic.
But APA style is pretty strict when it comes to citations. If you are citing a bunch of authors (3 or more authors), you HAVE to show all the authors in the very first instance of your citation. EG. (Smith, Wood & Black, 2009). But every other instance of citing these authors, you HAVE to condense the citation to Smith et al., 2009. (if you show all 3 authors' names again, you're not following APA style). Soooo, how do you activate this "et al" function in MS Word? I can't seem to find any options anywhere, but i'm obviously not looking in the right spot. Any help would be awesome! Thanks! |
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How do you change APA citations to show "et al"
Don't overestimate the Word bibliography tool.
It was released long before it was ready to use. How do you feel about the spaces before the commas in the bibliography entries it makes in APA? Just be glad you're not using Chicago style, which is seriously broken. On Aug 3, 11:19*pm, Kazza wrote: Having the APA function in MS word is fantastic. But APA style is pretty strict when it comes to citations. If you are citing a bunch of authors (3 or more authors), you HAVE to show all the authors in the very first instance of your citation. *EG. (Smith, Wood & Black, 2009). But every other instance of citing these authors, you HAVE to condense the citation to Smith et al., 2009. (if you show all 3 authors' names again, you're not following APA style). Soooo, how do you activate this "et al" function in MS Word? I can't seem to find any options anywhere, but i'm obviously not looking in the right spot. |
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How do you change APA citations to show "et al"
Unfortunately this is not possible in Word 2007.
In-text citations are not automatically aware of any previous use of the same source and there is no flag available to indicate such a thing by hand. So all occurences of a citation of a specific source result in the same output. Yves -- http://bibword.codeplex.com "Kazza" wrote in message ... Having the APA function in MS word is fantastic. But APA style is pretty strict when it comes to citations. If you are citing a bunch of authors (3 or more authors), you HAVE to show all the authors in the very first instance of your citation. EG. (Smith, Wood & Black, 2009). But every other instance of citing these authors, you HAVE to condense the citation to Smith et al., 2009. (if you show all 3 authors' names again, you're not following APA style). Soooo, how do you activate this "et al" function in MS Word? I can't seem to find any options anywhere, but i'm obviously not looking in the right spot. Any help would be awesome! Thanks! |
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