APA 7 citation incorrectly shows two authors before “et al.”

llh13

Hi everyone,
I’m having an issue with Zotero’s APA 7 citation style.
For a source with three or more authors, Zotero currently generates an in-text citation like: (Author A, Author B, et al., YYYY)

However, according to APA 7, I would expect: (Author A et al., YYYY)

I have already selected APA 7th edition as the citation style in my document, but the problem persists. I have also tried changing the citation style and checking the author information in Zotero, but I have not been able to resolve the issue.

Could someone explain why Zotero is including the second author and how I can fix this?
Thank you!

adamsmith

That's correct APA style if you have mutliple works by the same first author with different second (etc.) author.
If you insert your bibliography, you'll almost certainly see

Author A, Author B...
Author A, Author C....

llh13

Thanks Adam :)