Best of the APA Style Blog: 2013 Edition
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 (also available as an e-book for Kindle) and our APA Style Guide to Electronic References, plus more information via the links below.
Learn How to Make APA Style References
How in-text citations work
How
references work (and how to deal with missing information)
How to find the example you need in the Publication
Manual
The principle of “cite what you see, cite what you use”
How to Cite...
E-books
Interviews
Legal references (including constitutions
and federal statutes)
Paraphrased work
Mobile apps
Secondary
sources (sources found in another source) and why
to avoid them
Social media (Twitter, Facebook)
Website material
YouTube videos
Grammar Tips
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
Paper Formatting Guidelines
Block quotations
Capitalization
Fonts
Headings
Lists (lettered, numbered, or bulleted)
Margins
Running heads
Spelling
Statistics
Student Resources
How to cite a class
How to cite classroom course packs and custom textbooks
How to “cite” your research participant interview data
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