What is the APA rule for citing six or more authors in text of your document?

The APA rule for citing six or more authors in the text of your document is to list only the first author's last name followed by "et al." (which means "and others").

Example:

* In the first mention: (Smith et al., 2023)

* Subsequent mentions: (et al., 2023)

Note:

* The "et al." abbreviation is always italicized.

* If you are citing a work with six or more authors in the reference list, you list all authors.

* For electronic sources that do not list authors, cite the first few words of the title followed by the year.