We are proud to announce the launch of APA Style CENTRAL, a learning, writing, research, and publishing solution developed for academic institutions by the American Psychological Association!
Free trials are available today for institutions. Students and faculty: If you are interested, please contact your institutional library. For more, see this short video!
To learn more, see http://apastyle.org/asc!
Last weekend, we did something fun: At the American Library Association’s midwinter conference, in Boston, we gave librarians a sneak peek at APA Style CENTRAL!
To get a glimpse for yourself, check out the video below!
To receive additional updates about APA Style CENTRAL as they become available, just complete the form at http://apastyle.org/asc.
A few weeks ago, Emelie Milnikel and Hunter Zuk achieved landmark status. They were the first recipients of Superior Awards for APA Style, established by Grand Valley State University’s Advertising and Public Relations program to recognize outstanding student work. The Superior Award for APA Style honors exemplary skill in the knowledge and execution of APA Style in student writing.
Emelie’s paper was titled "Effects of a Company’s Professional Sports Sponsorship on Brand Image," and Hunter’s was titled "The Impact of Televised Alcohol Advertisements on Youth's Drinking Behaviors." We found both papers to be engaging and insightful. Congratulations, Emelie and Hunter, on your outstanding work! We are thrilled to learn about this award and to have the opportunity to welcome two new APA Style mavens to the fold.
If your school has a similar APA Style award, we would love to hear from you!
The word of the day is love. We love helping people write with clarity and concision. We love debating fine points of grammar and usage. And, we love that, more than 5 years later, you continue to ask us new and interesting questions about APA Style points, keeping us current and keeping us on our toes!
Without APA Style, we wouldn’t be here, sharing this forum with you. With that in mind, and in honor of the day, we’ve each written a heartfelt haiku: odes to our favorite aspects of APA Style.
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For Students Who Ask Why Why APA Style? Precision and clarity —for those that follow |
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Author–Date Format Ideas to text “From whom and when?” I wonder Author–date replies |
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The Header Oh, running header Where would I be without you? Lost amongst pages |
| Katie Ten Hagen |
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Redundancy They were both alike Loved as one and the same, but Cut for concision. |
| Mary Lynn Skutley |
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Reference citations Author, date, title, and source Pathways to knowledge |
| Chelsea Lee |
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(a), (b), and (c) letters in series help with parallel structure and readers thank you |
| Timothy McAdoo |
Valentine's Day card image source: Peter-J-Pann, "valentine hat pcard"
by Jeff Hume-Pratuch
You read that right: APA has just released the sixth edition of the APA Publication Manual as an e-book from the Amazon Kindle Store! (Sometimes the news is so nice, you have to say it twice.)
Keep reading for more details, or just click on over to Amazon and buy it now (you know you want to).
The manual is available from Amazon’s Kindle store as a Print Replica book. Each page in a Print Replica book looks just like the print version, with the same words and images in the same position, but it includes features such as annotation, highlighting, and zoom functions. Page numbers correspond to the print versions, so you can easily find the information you need. Reading progress is also synced across multiple Kindle apps, so you can “save the page” if you need to switch devices.
Kindle Print Replica books can be read on Kindle Fire tablets, Kindle for PC, Kindle for Android Tablets, Kindle for Mac, or Kindle for iPad reading apps (all available for free download from Amazon), but not on E Ink devices.
The manual’s companion volumes have also been released for the Kindle, so you can put an entire shelf-full of APA Style products on your tablet today!
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APA Publication Manual, Sixth Edition |
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APA Style Guide to Electronic References, Sixth Edition |
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Concise Rules of APA Style, Sixth Edition |
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Presenting Your Findings, Sixth Edition |
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Displaying Your Findings, Sixth Edition |
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Reporting Research in Psychology |
And now, back to the party!
Each fall the APA Style Blog Team puts together a “best of” feature, and this year we continue the tradition with an updated set of posts from the APA Style Blog and our parent site, apastyle.org. We hope it will be helpful as new batches of students set upon the task of learning and implementing APA Style. You can get the full story in our sixth edition Publication Manual and our recently released APA Style Guide to Electronic References, plus more information via the links below.
Getting Started
What is APA
Style?
Why is APA
Style needed?
Basics of
APA Style Tutorial
FAQs
about APA Style
Sample Papers
Sample Paper 1
Sample Paper 2
Sample meta-analysis paper
Sample published APA article
General Reference Help
How
in-text citations work
How
to find the example you need in the Publication
Manual
How to
deal with missing reference information
“How-To” Citation Help
E-books
Interviews
Legal
references (constitutions, etc.)
Paraphrased
work
PsycTESTS
test database
Secondary
sources (sources you found in another source)
Social
media (Twitter, Facebook)
Website
material
YouTube
videos
Grammar Help
A versus an with acronyms and abbreviations
All versus none
Data is
versus data are
Since versus because
That versus which
While versus although and whereas
Who versus that
Formatting Help
Capitalization
Running
heads
Headings
Lists (lettered,
numbered,
or bulleted)
Margins
Spelling
Statistics
Keep in Touch!
We hope that these resources will be helpful to you as you write using APA Style. If you are interested in receiving tips about APA Style as well as general writing advice, we encourage you to follow us on social media. You can find us (and tell your friends) on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus.
As you might imagine, within the APA Style team, we have a mix of educational backgrounds and interests, with a significant overlap in writing, editing, psychology, and other social sciences. So when it comes to social media, we’re interested in all types of writing and social science resources.
We’ve found a plethora of said resources on Google+! We currently have hundreds of universities and university libraries in our circles, plus everyone from Grammar Girl and Merriam-Webster to Psychology World to the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Health.
Follow us to get official updates on all things related to APA Style, including announcements about new blog posts, tips and tricks on writing and style, new features on apastyle.org, and more!
by Trish Knowles
Imagine that you pick up a psychology journal and read “hypothesis testing often has a role to play even in meta-analysis and Bayesian analysis, but the hypotheses to be tested are different because they continue to pertain to the parameters of original interest.”
Are you thinking what I am? Ummm, what?!
Okay, there’s no need to panic. Close your eyes for a moment, breathe deeply a few times, maybe stretch a bit…. Better?
Now that your initial alarm at encountering jargon has subsided, let me introduce you to a great new tool from that can help: the APA Concise Dictionary of Psychology app for iPhone, iPad, and Android.
With more than 10,000 entries covering concepts, processes, and therapies across 90 subareas of psychology, the app gives you the power to unlock the mysteries of the field’s vocabulary—anytime and anywhere—with a mere tap of a finger. You can search terms, browse an alphabetical list, add notes about definitions, mark terms as favorites, and link directly between cross-references. The app also includes “Word of the Day” and “Historical Figures in Psychology” pop-ups, abbreviations and alternative spellings, search term suggestions, and several other useful features.
Test drive the free trial version with limited functionality (from iTunes or the Android Market) or jump right in and grab the full paid version instead (from iTunes or the Android Market).
If you’re more of a gotta-hold-it book-on-the-shelf kind of person, check out the print edition of this and other APA dictionaries and reference books here.
Now, where were we? Ah, yes:
Thus, in our view, the advantage of meta-analysis and Bayesian analysis is not so much that they avoid significance testing, but instead that they provide methods for accumulating information over multiple studies in a manner that still focuses on the parameters of scientific interest, such as the magnitude of a treatment effect.
Here's how to cite the app in APA Style:
American Psychological Association. (2012). APA concise dictionary of psychology
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Quotes are from Howard, G. S., Maxwell, S. E., & Fleming, K. J. (2000). The proof of the pudding: An illustration of the relative strengths of null hypothesis, meta-analysis, and Bayesian analysis. Psychological Methods, 5, 315-332. doi:10.1037/1082-989X.5.3.315
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