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"This page reflects the latest version of the APA Publication Manual (i.e., APA 7), which [was] released in October 2019" (Note, ¶1).

The video in this post introduced the APA's institutional mega-service! Do you have any hands-on experience? If so, what are your impressions? Does it compare favorably with other reference management tools or suites?

The guidelines, model citations, and formatting tips in this section of EasyBib resources cover a range of reference types from books to websites: Fundamentals How to format an APA works cited list Quick Guide Parenthetical Citations Web Rules Bible Blog Book Chapter Database Dictionary Encyclopedia Film / Online Interview Journal Lecture Magazine Musical Recording Newspaper Photo / Digital Image Report Thesis/Dissertation TV/Radio Broadcast Website (2014.06.02)

"This guide provides an overview of the process of preparing and submitting a scholarly manuscript for publication in a psychology journal. Drawing on the experiences of authors of scholarly writings, peer reviewers, and journal editors, we seek to demystify the publication process and to offer advice designed to improve a manuscript's prospects of publication. To exemplify the process, we describe specific publication procedures for journals of the American Psychological Association." (APA, 2010, p. 1)

This page comprises general guidelines, a checklist, examples, and explanations about table structure, table types, and notes in them. The next page listed the APA Style sidebar menu (left) covers figures (see: APA Tables and Figures 2).

"A reference to a YouTube *channel* follows the usual who (YouTube username), when (date), what (title), and where (URL) format" (¶1, 2017.01.19 [emphasis added]).

This TeachThought post sports a table of templates, apparently copyright TeachBytes 2013, for citations in both APA and MLA styles.

This presentation covered: Changes in the 6th Edition General Manuscript Instructions Common grammar/punctuation mistakes References IN text Quotations in text Reference List Bias in language Helpful tools for writing

"Recently, academics are receiving an increasing number of email invitations to submit papers. While some are legitimate announcements from reputable organizations, many are a new kind of spam from what Beall (2012) calls "predatory publishers" (p. 179). Basically, they track you down through the titles of your work and invite you to submit manuscripts. They promise quick turnaround and imply guaranteed acceptance. If you are a novice researcher, you might be flattered into submitting. However, you may find later that there is a hefty fee. We wrote this paper to help you identify suspicious solicitations so that you can avoid being duped" (¶1).

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"This year's guidelines" (English, retrieved 2020.02.27) point out downloadable style sheets with model text based on the _APA Publication Manual_ (6th edition).

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