APA Style

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APA Style

• APA Publication Manual is currently in its 5th
  version since 1929.
• APA manual presents rules for the preparation of
  manuscripts for publication.
• Purposes of APA Style
• clear communication to reviewers/readers
• organization of manuscript follows set format
• clarity of descriptions

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Purposes of APA Style cont.

• production of clear tables and graphs
• references presented in a consistent way
• statistics are presented in common format for
  easy comprehension
• reducing bias in language
• reduce insensitive labels, stereotypes, use
  neutral language
• editorial standards in publication
• e.g., spelling, abbreviations, citations,
  footnotes, etc.

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Assignment

• Re-format a JABA brief report article into an
  APA-style manuscript.
• You will be assigned your own brief report and
  may not trade reports with another student.
• You are to find your article online, copy and
  paste the text into a word-processing program,
  and re-format the manuscript into APA style.
• You do NOT have to retype the article.

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Assignment cont.

• You need to get a copy of the whole article from
  the library.
• Also, print/photocopy the graph(s), cut each out,
  and put each figure a page by itself.
• Please be courteous to other students and replace
  your journal volume back on the shelf

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Assignment cont.

• You probably will not have a a table
• Turn in the reformatted article and put on top
  the APA-assignment grading sheet that is online.

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Examples

• Published article
• http//seab.envmed.rochester.edu/jaba/articles/200
  5/jaba-38-03-0303.pdf
• An article in APA style
• http//www.vanguard.edu/uploadedfiles/faculty/ddeg
  elman/prayer.pdf.

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Title page

• The articles authors and affiliation(s) will go
  on the title page. Look at the hard copy of the
  article to determine what the running head is.

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Abstract

• Make sure to put on a page by itself
• You do not need to include the descriptors.
• In the online version, the abstract and
  introduction are merged together
• To see where your abstract ends, look at the
  (Xerox) of the article or look for the
  keywords/descriptors, as they are put at the end
  of the abstract.

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Introduction

• Make sure to include the title on page 3.
• Use the correct heading level.
• Do not start a new page for the method section.
• Ignore the authors in the added material section,
  but the rest of the added material is likely the
  authors note and figure captions

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• Reference
• Make sure they are formatted correctly.
• Baron, A., Galizio, M. (2005). Positive and
  negative reinforcement should the distinction be
  preserved? The Behavior Analyst, 28, 85-98.
• Author note
• The added material should be the authors note.
  (To double check, look at the hard copy of your
  article. The authors note is located on the
  first page at the bottom).

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• Table
• Tables should be re-typed in APA format.
• Figure captions
• Figure captions should be on their own page. You
  can find the captions below the added material in
  the online text.

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Figures

• Graphs should be photocopied from the hard copy
  of the article.
• The extra text and caption should be removed, and
  they should be placed on their own page(s).
• You will have to go to the library to get a copy
  of the figure.

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• The final format of your article should look
  EXACTLY like the article shown in the APA guide
  so look at that article to make sure yours looks
  the same (except the words used in the headings,
  etc. will be different)