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How do I cite a source with three or more authors?

Use the first author followed by et al. from the very first citation. APA 7 changed this from APA 6, which used all authors the first time. So it is (Okafor et al., 2021) every time, including the first.

This comes up on APA 7 In-Text Citations, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.

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