Preparing Reference List In Text Citation Reference Examples

SSSA Citation Style Quick Guide

Soil Science Society of America

In Text Citations

The author–year notation system is required; do not use numbered notation. For within-text citations of papers with two authors, name both. With three or more authors, use ‘et al.’ For two or more articles using the same within-text citation, add a distinguishing lowercase letter to the year in both the text and references list. Separate citations with a semicolon. For citations of multiple works by the same authors, the author names do not need to be repeated.
Examples:
(Murphy, 2001)
(Murphy, 2001; Murphy and Smith, 2001; Murphy et al., 2001)
(Murphy, 2001; Murphy and Wong, 2001, 2001b; Murphy et al., 2001)
(Murphy, 2001; Murphy et al., 2001, 2002; Murphy and Davis, 2002)

Information excerpted from The Publications Handbook and Style Manual available at https://www.soils.org/publications/style/ (accessed 7 Nov. 2007).

Preparing Reference List In Text Citation Reference Examples