Academic Integrity - Referencing, Citation & Avoiding Plagiarism: Book with three, four or five authors

Reference: First Author Last name, Initials., Second Author Last name, Initials., Third Author Last name, Initials., Fourth Author Last name, Initials., & Fifth Author, Last name, Initials. (Year). Title. Place of publication: Publisher.

Example: Fennelly, M., Matthews,P.J., Morgan, L., & Bishop, R. (2014). Understanding Child Development. Dublin: Birch Press.

In-Text-Citation (First time mentioned in text):

• First Author Last name, Second Author Last name, Third Author Last name, Fourth Author Last name and Fifth Author Last name (Year)….
• (First Author Last name, Second Author Last name, Third Author Last name, Fourth Author Last name & Fifth Author Last name, Year)...

Example:

• Fennelly, Matthews, Morgan, Bennett, and Bishop (2014) talk about the developing child….
• Stages in child development have been proved to be universal (Fennelly, Matthews, Morgan, Bennett, & Bishop, 2014)...

In-Text-Citation (subsequently mentioned in-text):

• First Author Last name et al. (Year)
• (First Author Last name et al., Year)

Example:

• Fennelly et al. (2014) describe…
• It has been shown that children as young as two months can perceive changes in depth (Fennelly et al., 2014)...