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Electronic References in APA Style at Your Fingertips
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Have you ever searched in vain for an electronic reference example in the Publication Manual and on this blog, knowing that you've seen it somewhere? We thought so. Among the myriad APA Style questions we receive, the majority concern electronic... Continue reading
Posted Jun 8, 2012 at APA Style Blog
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Hi Ruth, Thank you for your comments on the article that is featured in our blog post by Onwuegbuzie, Slate, Combs, and Frels (2010). The article appears in the journal Research in the Schools, which is not an APA journal and therefore may have different formatting guidelines for figures. Thanks for your interest in APA Style.
Toggle Commented Mar 1, 2011 on Have You Found Some APA Style Rules More Challenging to Learn Than Others? at APA Style Blog
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Hi Chris, Thanks for your question about italicizing web articles. For web content that is not easily categorized, we do not italicize the title and follow the format in section 7.11 of the Publication Manual (pp. 214-215): Author, A. (date). Title of document [Format description]. Retrieved from http://URL For an in-depth discussion of how to cite materials you find on a website, see our blog post at http://bit.ly/g0Aoqt I hope this is helpful!
Toggle Commented Mar 1, 2011 on Have You Found Some APA Style Rules More Challenging to Learn Than Others? at APA Style Blog
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Secondary Sources (aka How to Cite a Source You Found in Another Source)
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by Timothy McAdoo You’ve probably heard that you should avoid secondary sources when possible. It’s true—if you find great information being quoted or paraphrased somewhere, it’s well worth your effort to track down the original source so you can read... Continue reading
Posted May 20, 2010 at APA Style Blog
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There's an Art to It
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by Jeff Hume-Pratuch Recently, we’ve had a surprising number of inquiries about how to reference artwork in APA Style. The APA Publication Manual (6th ed.) has a section on audiovisual media (7.07, pp. 209–210), but it focuses mostly on audio,... Continue reading
Posted Apr 1, 2010 at APA Style Blog
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How to Cite Direct Quotations
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by Timothy McAdoo One of our goals for this blog is to convey that following the guidelines of APA Style need not restrict your flexibility as a writer. Because of space limitations, many style points illustrated in the APA Publication... Continue reading
Posted Mar 25, 2010 at APA Style Blog
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Mar 15, 2010
Lists, Part 6: Overview
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by Timothy McAdoo and Chelsea Lee Earlier in this series, I gave examples of lettered, numbered, and bulleted lists. Whereas those posts provided detail about each type of list and how to construct them, this post synthesizes the information to... Continue reading
Posted Mar 4, 2010 at APA Style Blog
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Lists, Part 5: Bulleted Lists
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by Timothy McAdoo This is the fifth in a six-part series about lists. Today I’ll discuss bulleted lists, which are new to APA Style! Bulleted Lists As the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association notes (p. 63), creating a... Continue reading
Posted Mar 2, 2010 at APA Style Blog
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Lists, Part 4: Numbered Lists
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by Timothy McAdoo This is the fourth in a six-part series. Today we’ll look at numbered lists.Numbered Lists Numbered lists (as noted on p. 64 of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association) can be used to denote items... Continue reading
Posted Feb 25, 2010 at APA Style Blog
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Lists, Part 3: Lowercase Letters
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by Timothy McAdoo In Part 2, I discussed how to create a simple list with serial commas and when to use semicolons in a list of items with internal commas. Today, I show how lowercase letters may be used as... Continue reading
Posted Feb 23, 2010 at APA Style Blog
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Lists, Part 2: Commas and Semicolons
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by Timothy McAdoo This is the second in a six-part series about lists in APA Style. Today I’ll provide examples of serial commas and semicolons. Commas The most basic type of list appears in the running text of a sentence,... Continue reading
Posted Feb 18, 2010 at APA Style Blog
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The Frankenreference
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by Timothy McAdoo This post is part of an ongoing series about how references work. Check out an introduction to the generic APA Style reference and the posts on the author or “who” element, the date or “when” element, the... Continue reading
Posted Feb 11, 2010 at APA Style Blog
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Using Brackets in APA Style References
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by Timothy McAdoo This post is part of an ongoing series about how references work. Check out an introduction to the generic APA Style reference and the posts on the author or “who” element, the date or “when” element, the... Continue reading
Posted Feb 4, 2010 at APA Style Blog
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The Version of Record: What Is It and Does It Matter?
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by Paige Jackson From a practical point of view, denoting a version of record provides a means for version control. A journal article can go through a number of incarnations—for example, draft for peer review, revised draft, accepted manuscript, first... Continue reading
Posted Dec 24, 2009 at APA Style Blog
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How to Find a DOI
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by Timothy McAdoo Ever had trouble finding a DOI? In the video below, we demonstrate how to find a DOI in a variety of ways: from an article’s record in APA PsycINFO (on a number of vendor platforms), from an... Continue reading
Posted Dec 10, 2009 at APA Style Blog
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How to Cite a Speech in APA Style
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by Timothy McAdoo “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Martin Luther... Continue reading
Posted Oct 19, 2009 at APA Style Blog
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APA Style for Citing Interviews
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by Timothy McAdoo “I’m quoting Johnny Depp from an interview I read in a magazine. But the Publication Manual has no reference format for interviews. What do I do?” I’ve always said there are two types of interviews in this... Continue reading
Posted Oct 16, 2009 at APA Style Blog
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Note to APA Style Community: Sixth Edition Corrections
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We are grateful for the lively and thoughtful discussion that has resulted from the release of the sixth edition of the Publication Manual on this blog and also among other APA Style communities. We recently learned of a post on... Continue reading
Posted Oct 8, 2009 at APA Style Blog
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Sayonara to the “Well-Known City” Rule in APA Style
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by Anne Breitenbach For those of you familiar with the previous editions of the APA Publication Manual, be aware that the “well-known city” exception for reference citations is no more. Briefly, the old rule was to provide the state, province... Continue reading
Posted Oct 1, 2009 at APA Style Blog
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How Do I Cite a Kindle?
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by Chelsea Lee E-book readers, like the popular Kindle from Amazon.com, are revolutionizing the way we interact with the printed page. Although most e-book content has leaned toward the nonscholarly, major textbook manufacturers are now partnering with Amazon to produce... Continue reading
Posted Sep 22, 2009 at APA Style Blog
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Use of First Person in APA Style
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by Timothy McAdoo I am often asked why APA Style prohibits the use of I or we. I love this question, because the answer is always a pleasant surprise: I or we is perfectly acceptable in APA Style! In fact,... Continue reading
Posted Sep 10, 2009 at APA Style Blog
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