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APA Style: Works With the Same Author(s) and Same Year of Publication

To distinguish works with the same author or same authors in the same order and the same year of publication, append a lowercase letter to the year in both the reference list entry and in-text citation.

(Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 2020, p. 305)

Example:

Jost, J. T., Glaser, J., Kruglanski, A. W., & Sulloway, F. J. (2003a). Political conservatism as motivated social cognition. Psychological Bulletin, 129(3), 339–375. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.129.3.339

Jost, J. T., Glaser, J., Kruglanski, A. W., & Sulloway, F. J. (2003b). Exceptions that prove the rule: Using a theory of motivated social cognition to account for ideological incongruities and political anomalies: Reply to Greenberg and Jonas (2003). Psychological Bulletin, 129(3), 383–393. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.129.3.383

Narrative citation: Jost et al. (2003a)

Parenthetical citation: (Jost et al. 2003a)