Sophia APA Question

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There are some big differences between 6 and 7. One of them is when there's 20 or more authors. The formatting has changed so you don't list all of the authors. I got dinged on this yesterday.

The Purdue Owl links Sophia includes are not consistent. One is APA 6 and one is APA 7. I will check with them on the chat when it's open during the week.

I never check in deep the differences between APA 6 & 7, but to cite a 20 or more authors article is pretty rare; actually, 20 or more authors source (book, article, etc) are extremly rare. I remember a specific physic paper about weird issue that include 100+ authors, but again, it is so strange.

In the other hand, i use APA 6 when i wrote my Sophia papers, i didn't get any feedback in my refernce section, i think as students learning propouse, the reference section may include a similar-APA style that include the main information of the source "Authors, year, title, source, number, volume, etc", but they don't go so deep on the references details.

Oh I know it's rare. I have a journal article that has something like 30 authors. Kind of crazy. I am going to switch to APA 6 with my next paper and see if that changes the complaints on my references. I use a APA citation generator and have for quite awhile. i've never been marked off for my references in the past. That's what's so confusing. I wrote papers weekly at CSU Global and was never marked off for the way my citations were done. That's why I think they aren't using APA 7. Wish they would make it clear on Sophia which APA they're using. The 20 author thing isn't the only change. 


https://owll.massey.ac.nz/referencing/ap...dition.php

Key changes at a glance

• Et al.: “et al.” is used in the first in-text citation for works with three or more authors.
  
  
• Up to 20 authors cited: In the reference list, give the surnames and initials for up to 20 authors.
  
  
• Website names: Website names are now included as well as the webpage title.
  
  
• Publication location: The location of the publisher (i.e., city, country/state code) is no longer required.
  
  
• Ebook publisher: You no longer need to give the platform, format, or device (e.g., Kindle) for ebooks, but you do need give the publisher.
  
  
• "Retrieved from": You no longer need to write “Retrieved from” before a URL.
  
  
• DOIs: DOIs are formatted the same as URLs. You do not need to write "DOI."
  
  
  

That's true, APA 6 use in text up to 5 authors, what is so bad and unfriendly for readers, it is like: Smith, Johnson, Rhea, Kraemer & Garcia (2019) states that...

In APA 7 it is just Smith et al., (2019), i always like Vancouver format more than APA... it also use et al. after 3 authors...

Again, i use APA 6 for Sophia English I & II, i cite 4 authors paper in text and no feedback about it, so using APA 6 is ok, i think you can use 6 or 7 but dont mix.