APA7 citing multiple authors

The author checklist for a journal I'm publishing in says the following about their implementation of APA7:

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When there are 3 to 5 authors, use "et al." only after all authors have been cited parenthetically once.
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This is not the behavior in Zotero.

For example:
Franklin, M., Niemi, R., & Whitten, G. (1994). The two faces of tactical voting. British Journal of Political Science, 24(4), 549–557.

is cited the first time in text as:
(Franklin et al., 1994)

Is the journal's style guide just idiosyncratic (it claims to be vanilla APA), or is there something I'm missing here?
  • It's APA 6. APA 7 went to et al. for 3+ authors for all citations
  • I would assume that following APA7 guidelines is correct for the journal and that the posted summary guidelines just haven’t been updated. That is pretty common.
  • Thanks to both of you @adamsmith and @bwiernik!
    I've queried the editor and will let you know if there's anything interesting in the response, but this is really helpful!
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