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[Korn]

If a book has 3 authors do you list all 3 authors OR do you use et al like you would for more then 3 authors, cause 2.6.7 "Two or more authors", Summers & Smith, p. 23, condradicts itself, and was wondering if I could get some clarification on this

 

[Cape]

If there are more than two authors the surname of the first author should be given, followed by et al.

 

[Korn]

If there are more than two authors the surname of the first author should be given, followed by et al.

You sure, cause I dont want to get it wrong and as it says

Where three or more authors are cited... the first two (or more) names are separated by a comma and only the last two names are separated by '&'.

My tutor for Management agreed with what you said and the following statement, but I'm asking for an Accounting Assignment

Where there are more then three authors to enhance the readability of the text only the first author's name... included followed by 'et al'

Network technologies have become increasingly complex in recent times (Cook, Burger & Brown 2000).... Local area networks are now very common (Samson et al. 2001).
Here '(Samson et al. 2001)' refers to a 2001 publication by Samson, Thames, Burger, Brown and Cook.

So you see my dilemma on how to reference when there are 3 authors

 

[Cape]

Yup. I'm positive. Haven't got referencing wrong yet, except for my first assignment - but we won't go into that it had nothing to do with ppl's names either.

 

[Korn]

Yup. I'm positive. Haven't got referencing wrong yet, except for my first assignment - but we won't go into that it had nothing to do with ppl's names either.

Ok cool thanks, your awesome

 

[christ_ine]

Yup, you just put "First Author, et al". I did that a lot in Sociology. I prefer footnotes myself.

 

[LaraB]

i do management courses, so we use the S.O.M style guide...

and we were told over and over and over that if its a unit not from teh school of management, totally forget their referencing method and vice versa

check with your school coz there's a variety of acceptable methods depending on the school the unit's in

 

[Jonathan A]

If a book has 3 authors do you list all 3 authors OR do you use et al like you would for more then 3 authors, cause 2.6.7 "Two or more authors", Summers & Smith, p. 23, condradicts itself, and was wondering if I could get some clarification on this

Hopefully you find your answer in my rant...

If you three to five authors, you need to list all of them e.g. Smith, Jones and Bruce. After you first mention them, you simply state Smith et al. If you have two authors, you need to state the two authors. If you have more than 5 authors, the in-text reference is simply "Smith et al", however in the Reference list, it's all the authors (and believe me after last week, this can be around 15 authors at times).