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Preferred: Surname, Given Middle. Use ORG: for a group author. APA references list up to 20 authors; 21+ uses the first 19, an ellipsis, then the final author.
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Reference-list preview uses alphabetical ordering and a hanging indent. Same-author/same-year works receive a/b/c suffixes within this library.
Select one or more library items. APA parenthetical citations use “&” for two authors; narrative citations use “and.” Three or more authors use “et al.” from the first citation.
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Important: APA has source-specific exceptions, and metadata imported from websites/databases can be incomplete. OneFreePlace never fabricates missing authors, dates, publishers, page ranges, or DOI metadata. Review the audit before submitting academic work. “Heuristic sentence case” is optional because automatic lowercasing can damage proper nouns, acronyms, scientific names, and non-English titles.