Yes, there is a period after "et al." in citations.
Yes, you do put a period after "et al." in citations.
Yes, "et al." is used in MLA citations when referencing multiple authors in a source.
No, "et al." does not have a period.
No, there is not a period after et, rather, the period is after al. Et al. is Latin for et alli, meaning "and other people."
Use et al. for subsequent multiple authors in citations.
In APA style, for citing a work with three or more authors in-text, the first citation would include all authors followed by "et al." For example: (Smith, Jones, Brown, et al., 2021). Subsequent citations of the same work can then use "et al." from the first citation onwards.
Use et al. for subsequent multiple authors in citations.
Definitely! "et al." is an abbreviation of "et alli". "et" is a complete word hence no full-stop is required BUT "al." is an abbreviation of "alli" hence a full stop is required.
Et al. is an abbreviation for the Latin phrase et alii, which means "and others". Since al. is an abbreviation, it is properly spelled with a period/full stop.
In academic writing, "et al." should be punctuated with a period after "al" and should be italicized or underlined to indicate it is a foreign term.
The notation for subsequent multiple authors for an in text citation is the first authors name followed by "et al.". For example, at the end of the sentence use (Jones et al., 1993); or it could be Jones et al. did show that .....for the analysis (1993).
It is short for the Latin et alii ('and others'), which means "and others." For example, the phrase "IBM, Microsoft, HP, et al." means "IBM, Microsoft, HP and others" or "Carruthers et al."- "Carruthers and others".