BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ APA 7th style citation packages are not correct when citing three or more authors

[pat-latex]

Regarding these two packages for citation according to APA 7th style (7th Edition):

https://www.ctan.org/pkg/apa7
https://www.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-apa

Unfortunately, the packages do not behave correctly according to the official APA 7th style when it comes to in-text citation of three or more authors for the first citation in the text. Having a reference with three authors, the packages display all three authors in the first in-text citation, which is correct with respect to APA 6th but NOT to APA 7th.

According to the APA website about "Number of authors to include in in-text citations", it is clearly stated for APA 7th style:

For a work with three or more authors, include the name of only the first author plus “et al.” in every citation (even the first citation).

The Package documentation Package documentation of apa7 states the wrong definition:

A three-author paper \parencite[e.g.,][]{Lassen2006} lists all three authors for the first citation, then only the first author on all subsequent citations \parencite{Lassen2006}

The current literature also refers to the correct APA 7th style with always one author in in-text citation when three or more authors are present:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10 ... 0720911625

If the in-text citation (see Chapter 8) involves three or more authors, then the citation is reduced. Specifically, only the first author’s name
followed by et al. is used. In the sixth edition, the correct in-text
citation was Bradley, Jones, Noble, and Wilson (2019). The correct
in-text citation listed for the seventh edition is Bradley et al.
(2019).

Iida, Paul, et al. The Concise APA Handbook : APA 7th Edition, Information Age Publishing, Incorporated, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/as ... ID=6351995.
Created from asb on 2022-02-01 11:46:57.

If a material has three or more authors, only the first name should be included in the in-text citation, followed by “et al.” For example, the book you are currently reading should be cited as “Iida et al. (2020).”

Please, can this vital flaw be corrected.

Despite that, I love these packages!!


The inital preamble, which I applied:

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\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=apa,backend=biber]{biblatex}

[MjK]

For biblatex-apa there us an issue tracker, also referenced in the CTAN Catalogue entry of the package. Bug reports here at latex.org are more or less useless.

Note: In bug reports you should always show a minimal working example not only a snippet from your preamble.

[pat-latex]

Thanks a lot!