Conquering APA Style: Advice From APA Style Experts

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ABOUT PSI CHI Psi Chi is the International Honor So ci ety in Psychology, found ed in 1929. Its mission: "recognizing and promoting excellence in the science and application of psy chol ogy." (Note. Our new mission statement is available at http://www.psichi.org/?page=purpose) Mem ber ship is open to undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and alumni mak ing the study of psy chol ogy one of their major interests and who meet Psi Chi's min i mum qual i fi ca tions. Psi Chi is a member of the As so cia tion of Col lege Honor So ci et ies (ACHS), and is an affiliate of the Ameri can Psy cho logi cal As so cia tion (APA) and the Association for Psy cho log i cal Science (APS). Psi Chi's sister honor society is Psi Beta, the na tion al honor society in psychology for com mu nity and junior colleges. Psi Chi functions as a federation of chap ters located at over 1,130 senior col leg es and universities around the world. The Psi Chi Central Office is lo cat ed in Chatta nooga, Ten nessee. A Board of Directors, com posed of psy chol o gy faculty who are Psi Chi members and who are elect ed by the chapters, guides the affairs of the Or ga ni za tion and sets pol i cy with the ap prov al of the chap ters. Psi Chi membership provides two major opportunities. The first of these is ac a dem ic rec og ni tion to all in duc tees by the mere fact of mem ber ship. The sec ond is the opportunity of each of the Society's local chapters to nourish and stim u late the pro fes sion al growth of all members through fellowship and activities de signed to augment and en hance the reg u lar cur ric u lum. In addition, the Or ga ni za tion provides programs to help achieve these goals including con ven tions, research awards and grants competitions, and publication opportunities. JOURNAL PURPOSE STATEMENT The twofold purpose of the Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research is to foster and reward the scholarly efforts of psychology students as well as to provide them with a valuable learning experience. The articles pub lished in the Journal represent the work of under graduates, graduate students, and faculty. To further support authors and enhance Journal visibility, articles are now available in the PsycINFO®, EBSCO®, and Crossref® databases. In 2016, the Journal also became open access (i.e., free online to all readers and authors) to broad en the dissemination of research across the psychological science community.

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“…The Psi Chi Journal also invites editorials to support Psi Chi members in their academic pursuits. A brief set of examples includes multiple articles on how to conquer APA style (Hughes, Brannan, Cannon, Camden, & Anthenien, 2017), how to read and write academic manuscripts , how to integrate qualitative and quantitative methods , as well as how to publish a thesis or dissertation (Ayala, 2018). The journal will continue these and other activities to support Psi Chi members in meeting their publishing pursuits.…”

The Applications of APA styles in African Academic publications: An Evidence from Bahir Dar Journal of Education

“…Despite this endeavor, pieces of evidence show that numerous authors often commit errors at least in one of the seven key distinguished areas by APA during submitting their articles for publication. But all these errors c considerably corrected with efforts of expert reviewers and editors before publication issued (Cash, 2009;Hughes et al, 2017;Kayla, 2015;Skeen & Zafonte, 2015). Similar mistakes can be committing by the authors of BJE articles that could be corrected by the support of reviewers and editors before the final publication of the articles.…”

“…That is why from its very beginning in 1929, the publication manual of the APA has been gradually evolving over decades and dedicated to set out a sound and rigorous standards for scientific communications (American Psychological Association, 2010). To succeed these aims, the publication manual of APA style devoted largely to guide authors, reviewers and editors of a journal to prepare articles in clearly and concisely ways, to use common writing styles and layouts, display their findings, to credit sources of citations, and to write references in prescribed set of recipe (American Psychological Association, 2010;Hughes, Brannan, Cannon, Camden, & Anthenien, 2017). Perhaps, the inability to strictly adhere to the rules and up-to-date guidelines of APA style may cause a failure to produce clear, standardized and valuable articles.…”

“…In fact, it is the very challenge for the majority of the authors, the reviews and the examiners to use the APA style accurately understanding the lengthily detailed rules (Alexander, 2006;Hughes et al, 2017;Kayla, 2015;Morse, 2009). One of these challenges for the authors, the reviewers and the editors to stick enduringly to the publication manual of the APA style is its frequent evolution and modifications (Mandernach, Zafonte, & Taylor, 2016).…”

The Relationship Between Extraversion and Listening Comprehension Under High- and Low-Salience Visual Distraction Conditions

“…In addition to the APA Manual (APA, 2012), open resources including the APA style blog (http://blog.apastyle. org/), an editorial from this journal (Hughes, Brannan, Cannon, Camden, & Anthenien, 2017), and YouTube tutorials (Fallon, 2014a(Fallon, , 2014b expose the nigglier details of APA style and format.…”