APA style
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Academic format of citation made by American Psychological Association (APA)
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Within Vinony's link graph, APA style is referenced by 133 other articles, and connects out to MLA Handbook, statistics and ethics.
Vinony files it under Academic style guides, American Psychological Association books and Style guides for American English.
Its subject is documented across 35 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Instance of
- style guide
- Named after
- American Psychological Association
- Developer
- American Psychological Association
- Official website
- apastyle.apa.org
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- inception
- 1929-00-00
- Stack Exchange tag
- tex.stackexchange.com/tags/apa-style
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Encyclopedic overview
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition
APA style (also known as APA format) is a writing style and format for academic documents such as scholarly journal articles and books. It is commonly used for citing sources within the field of behavioral and social sciences, including sociology, education, nursing, criminal justice, anthropology, and psychology. It is described in the style guide of the American Psychological Association (APA), titled the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. The guidelines were developed to aid reading comprehension in the social and behavioral sciences, for clarity of communication, and for "word choice that best reduces bias in language". APA style is widely used, either entirely or with modifications, by hundreds of other scientific journals, in many textbooks, and in academia (for papers written in classes). The current edition is its seventh revision.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “APA style” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.