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APA 7th edition - Reference guide: Same author and date

Reference guide for APA 7th edition, a guide intended for students at the Univesity of Fort Hare to learn how format references according to the APA 7th edition style.

Same author and date

Same author and date

If you are citing several works published by the same author in the same year, use lower case letter directly after the year to separate them. The same year-letter combination is used in both the in-text reference and the reference list.


Examples:

In-text reference  
(Ljungberg, 2002a2002b)                                                                                                                      Ljungberg has investigated the habitat needs of threatened ground living beetle species in Sweden (2002a2002b)…
Reference list

​Ljungberg, H. (2002a). Bete, störning och biologisk mångfald i odlingslandskapet: Hotade skalbaggar i öländska torrmarker (Meddelande 2002:20). Länsstyrelsen Kalmar län.

Ljungberg, H. (2002b). Våra rödlistade jordlöpares habitatkrav. Entomologisk tidskrift, 123(4), 167-185.