I need to make et al. Italic in APA 7th

maysoonbineid
I am using American Psychological Association 7th edition (no ampersand)
I need to modify the style so that "et al." is italic (in-text citation)
I have accessed the style editor, but I could not locate the line.

can anyone help please?
  • adamsmith
    The basic method is documented here:
    https://docs.citationstyles.org/en/stable/specification.html#et-al

    For APA in particular, this is actually a bit involved because its author handling is fairly complex, but you'll capture most in-text citations by finding
    <else>
    <names variable="composer" delimiter=" &amp; ">
    <name form="short" and="symbol" delimiter=", " initialize-with=". "/>
    <substitute>


    and changing to

    <else>
    <names variable="composer" delimiter=" &amp; ">
    <name form="short" and="symbol" delimiter=", " initialize-with=". "/>
    <et-al font-style="italic"/>
    <substitute>

  • maysoonbineid
    It worked.
    Thank you so much!
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