Erratic number of authors cited before et al.

augua2b · July 20, 2022

Hi,

For my Master's thesis I use APA 7th referecing. I didn't modify any of Zotero parameters and everything went just fine during the year.
However, now I don't understand why but for some references Zotero adds an erratic number of authors in the in-text citation.

Details:

Paper 1: from authors X,Y,Z in 2021
Paper 2: from authors X,Y,W in 2021

Before that Zotero would simply insert as an in-text citation:
"X et al. (2021a)" and "X et al. (2021b)"
which seems correct for an APA7th citation

But now for these specific papers where some authors are common in both (i.e. X and Y) Zotero inserts:
"X,Y et al. (2021)" and "X,W,Y et al. (2021)"

Can someone explain that ?

Thanks!

scottseagroves · July 22, 2022

I believe what it's doing is correct for APA. See here:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/in_text_citations_author_authors.html

augua2b · July 22, 2022

Thanks a lot that's correct. I couldn't find this that easily and was unaware of this. Cheers