If you are citing works by different authors who share the same surname, include the authors' initials in the in-text reference to distinguish them from one another. Use the initials given on the source and use the same initials in the text reference as in the reference list.
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(A. R. Sheldrake, 2021) (M. Sheldrake, 2020) (A. R. Sheldrake, 2021; M. Sheldrake, 2020) |
A. R. Sheldrake (2021).... M. Sheldrake (2020)... |
Sheldrake, A. R. (2021). The production of auxin by dying cells. Journal of Experimental Botany, 72(7), 2288–2300. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erab009
Sheldrake, M. (2020). The ‘enigma’of Richard Schultes, Amazonian hallucinogenic plants, and the limits of ethnobotany. Social Studies of Science, 50(3), 345–376. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312720920362