APA 6th Edition

52 Pages·2017·0.5 MB·English

by  Michelle Post

APA 6th Edition Tutorial
Dr. Michelle Post, SMS (Reviewer)
Version 11 of the Tutorial
First Created April 29, 2010, Last Updated May 22, 2017
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Disclaimer
This APA 6th Edition (3rd printing) tutorial, is only meant to
be an overview of many of the key areas of the APA Style
Manual. It is not to be viewed as an all inclusive tutorial.
The best way to learn APA 6th edition is to buy the book
and use it – a lot.
Dr. Michelle Post
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Summary
What is APA? Basic Formatting – The
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Paper
Major Changes in APA 6th –
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Page Size
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Partial List
Margins
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What is Plagiarism?
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Line Spacing
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What is Self-Plagiarism?
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Font Type
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Direct Quotation versus
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Font Size
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Paraphrasing
Alignment
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Definition of Empirical
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Paragraph and
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Research
Indentation
Recognizing Empirical
 Basic Formatting – Headings
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Research
Basic Formatting - Lists
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Summary, Cntd.
Basic Formatting – Mechanics Parentheses
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 Spacing after a punctuation  Hyphenation
mark
Words Beginning a
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Spacing after a period
 Sentence
Period
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Major Words in Titles and
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Comma
 Headings
Semi-colon
 Proper Nouns and Trade
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Colon
 Names
Dash
 Use of Italics
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Quotation marks
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Use of Abbreviations
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Double or Single Quotation
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Numbers
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Marks
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Basic Formatting – Title
Basic Formatting: Tables 
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Page
Basic Formatting:
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Title
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Figures
Author’s Name
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Basic Formatting:
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Institutional Affiliation
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Citations
Author Note
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Basic Formatting:
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Running head
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References
Page Number
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Basic Formatting:
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Basic Formatting - Abstract
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Appendix
Footnotes and Endnotes
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Order of Manuscript
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APA Web Resources
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APA Citation Resources
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APA Software
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APA Video Tutorials
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Editing Tools
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Citation Generators
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Plagiarism Tools
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Grammar Insights
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References
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Dr. Michelle Post, SMS
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What is APA?
American Psychological Association
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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
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1929
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Writing Style or “Standard of Procedure”
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“The rules of APA Style are drawn from an extensive body of
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psychological literature, from editors and authors experienced
in scholarly writing, and from recognized authorities on
publication practices” (American Psychological Association,
2010, p. 3).
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Major Changes in APA 6th – Partial List
Addition of “self-plagiarism” (p. 16)
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Ethical compliance checklist (p. 20)
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Abstract contents described (p. 25)
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Description of introduction content (p. 27)
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Sample papers with key rules of APA style (p. 41)
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Change in Title Page (p. 23, 229)
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Change in Headings (p. 62)
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Major Changes in APA 6th, Cntd.
Bulleted lists & Number lists (p. 64)
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Use brackets to avoid nested parentheses (p. 94)
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Appendixes now is Appendices (p. 96)
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Numbers—use a word rather than a numeral to express a
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number below 10 when grouped with a number above 10 (p.
111)
Encouraged to use page or paragraph number for paraphrased
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material (p.171)
Table of basic citation styles (p. 177)
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Reference list (p. 181)
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Major Changes in APA 6th, Cntd.
Electronic sources in reference list include digital
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object identifiers (DOI), where available. If no DOI,
provide the url to the journal’s homepage (p. 187)
Examples for blogs, message boards, email (p. 214)
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Publisher information in book references now
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includes the state for all cities (p. 186)
Several other changes were made in Chapter 3:
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Writing Style, Chapter 4: Mechanics of Style, Chapter
5: Displaying Results, Chapter 6: Crediting Sources,
and Chapter 8: Publication Process.
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