Three or more authors (MLA)

MLA-53

In-text citations

The researchers found that when people reduce their fat intake, they increase their sodium intake, so the effect of a tax on foods containing saturated fat was likely to have limited health benefits (Mytton et al. 689).

Mytton and others that when people reduce their fat intake, they increase their sodium intake, so the effect of a tax on foods containing saturated fat was likely to have limited health benefits (689).

Explain

  • For a work with three or more authors, in a parenthetical citation give the first author’s name followed by “et al.” In a signal phrase, give the first author’s name followed by “and others.”

Works cited entry

Mytton, Oliver, et al. “Could Targeted Food Taxes Improve Health?” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, vol. 61, no. 8, Aug. 2007, pp. 689-94.

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