et al in APA style

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When we have more than 2 authors, in APA style, and after the fist reference should be et al. (Moura et al., 2010) without a comma between the name and et al. …  however, my Endnote X3 show (Moura, et al., 2010) whith a comma between the name and et al. Why???

Thanks.

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There might be a comma in the “between” option box of your APA output style that should be removed.

  1. Go to the EndNote toolbar, select EDIT, OUTPUT STYLES, EDIT APA [version you’re using - for this example, I’m using APA 5th].  This will display the APA 5th main screen.

  2. In the left column (see attached image), click to select “Author Lists” which is listed just below the “Citations” section. Under “Author Separators”,for 1 to 2 authors, check that the BETWEEN box is blank. I suspect there might be a comma present which causes one to be inserted after the first author’s name (Moura, et al., 2010).  If there is a comma in the “between” box, just backspace/delete it then close the APA style.

  3. You will be prompted to save the changes. Note that unless you change the style name, it will be saved as a copy (APA 5th Copy). You will then need to change-over to the APA 5th Copy otherwise the changes will not be displayed in your library.

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Thank you CrazyGecko,

I fix the problem with your help. The problem isn’t in the first box but the last. See image in attachment.

I also attach the APA 5th sytle with the fix for et al. when 3 or more authors.

Thank again.

Octavio Moura



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APA 5th.ens (54.4 KB)

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Hey my friends~

I try for more than 2 hours, however, after i saved  the changes. The problem still there,

I delete the , before et al in the author list,

canot figure out what is wrong?

 Joanna

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Hello,

Your post was very helpful for a few of my problems but I’ve still got one more problem. What if I want to get rid of comma after et al.? I have tried a lot of things in Citation Author of the output style but I can’t delete this comma. 

I get Brown et al., 2002 whereas I want it to look like Brown et al. 2002

Thanks

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Hi, 

I have followed the instructions and deleted the comma but the changes are not being saved, once I go back to the document it changes again to Author & Author instead of Author et al. 

thanks