August 30

APA Style Lite For College Papers

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 APA Style  Lite for College Papers is a concise guide to crafting research papers in the style of the American Psychological Association (APA). It is based on the current edition of the APA Publication Manual (corrected printing, 2009) while incorporating guidelines for "Material Other Than Journal Articles" found in the last edition. APA Lite succeeds the APA Crib Sheet developed by Professor Dewey in the 1990s and revised by the Abel Scribe collaboration in the current century. Doc Scribe is not affiliated in any way with the American Psychological Association--this style guide is free! © Copyright 2000-2010 by Dr. Abel Scribe, PhD
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http://www.docstyles.com/apacrib.htm

October 13

APA Publication Manual 6th Ed: Correcting A Style Guide

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Users of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association are trying to answer that question now, after the APA last week released dozens of corrections to the first printing of the book’s sixth edition. In addition to being used in psychology, the manual is also used in sociology, economics, business, nursing and justice administration, among other fields...

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Corrections to First Printing (July 2009)
URL: http://supp.apa.org/style/pubman-reprint-corrections-for-2e.pdf

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Note to APA Style Community: Sixth Edition Corrections



From Inside Higher Ed

September 29

Referencing@Portsmouth: An Interactive Referencing Guide

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Referencing@Portsmouth: an Interactive referencing guide
A online tutorial in cting and referencing created for students by staff at Portsmouth University Library. Although, originally intended for students of the University it is well written and contains much basic advice that could be applied elsewhere. Most sections focus on American Psychological Association (APA) variety of Harvard style referencing, although there is also help in using the OSCOLA legal referencing system and Vancouver biomedical referencing. Each section includes FAQs, examples, worksheets and glossaries of terms. Intute.ac.uk
http://referencing.port.ac.uk/