Upgrade StorageDifferent article cited not in a coherent way in the same document
Hello,
In the first citations of a documents, one with several autors are written with "et al." and the other one is written with all the names like (cf. Hoff et al., 2012; Hoff, Welsh, Place, & Ribot, 2014; Klassert, 2011, p. 107).
I use APA6 in French wit updates activates. In Zotero, both article contain all author names.
How can I make this type of citing homogenous?
In the first citations of a documents, one with several autors are written with "et al." and the other one is written with all the names like (cf. Hoff et al., 2012; Hoff, Welsh, Place, & Ribot, 2014; Klassert, 2011, p. 107).
I use APA6 in French wit updates activates. In Zotero, both article contain all author names.
How can I make this type of citing homogenous?
1) Use up to five authors on the first time an item is cited. If there are six or more authors, immediately use First et al.
2) Subsequent times an item is cited, use First et al. The exception is if this would produce ambiguous citations. For example, if you have two different “Hoff et al., 2014” papers with different groups of authors. In that case, additional author names are added until they are not ambiguous.
Zotero implements these rules correctly. In the example you give, either this is the first time that Hoff et al., 2014 is cited, or you have cited a different 2014 paper authored by Hoff, Welsh, and Place but with a different fourth and/or additional authors (such as Hoff, Welsh, Place, Ribot, & Jones, 2014).
What you are seeing is correct APA style.