Multiple Author Citations in APA

[zsteiner]

I did a search in the forums and could not find anything on this, admittedly arcane, APA 5th Edition rule. When there are two articles from the same year with same first author, but different co-authors, the citation format does not use letters (like 2008a). The proper format is list enough authors for the references to be distinct.

I have the following two references:

Bing, M. N., LeBreton, J. M., Davison, H. K., Migetz, D. Z., & James, L. R. (2007). Integrating Implicit and Explicit Social Cognitions for Enhanced Personality Assessment: A General Framework for Choosing Measurement and Statistical Methods. Organizational Research Methods, 10, 136-179.

Bing, M. N., Stewart, S. M., Davison, H. K., Green, P. D., McIntyre, M. D., & James, L. R. (2007). An integrative typology of personality assessment for aggression: Implications for predicting counterproductive workplace behavior. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92, 722-744.

So the first citation would be be (Bing, LeBreton, Davison, Migetz, & James, 2007; Bing, Stewart, et al. 2007). Subsequent would be (Bing, LeBreton, et al., 2007; Bing, Stewart, et al. 2007). Bookends is formatting them as (Bing, LeBreton, Davison, Migetz, & James, 2007a; Bing et al., 2007c) and subsequently (Bing et al., 2007a; Bing et al., 2007c). Note, I do not have 3 Bing et al. 2007 papers, so I do not know why the second paper is "2007c" and not 2007b. I have repaired and rebuilt, but the second paper still shows as "2007c"

Is there a way to tweak the format manager to output this correct style? Thank you!

[Jon]

As we've communicated off-list (this is for others) Bookends doesn't let you turn off disambiguating. As for the incorrect date citation, we'll pursue that directly.

Jon
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