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APA Style and Grammar Guide Georgia Baptist College of Nursing Mercer University APA Style and Grammar Guide 2018-2019 6.6.18 Page 1 of 76 Table of Contents (2018-2019) Points of Emphasis and Requirements ................................................................................................ 5 Plagiarism & Self-Plagiarism ...................................................................................................................... 5 Use of Block Quotation ...................................................................................................................... 6 Writing Style, Grammar, & Usage ....................................................................................................... 6 Selecting Verb Tense ............................................................................................................................... 6-7 Data, Phenomena, & Curricula are Plural Words ....................................................................................... 7 Pronouns .................................................................................................................................................... 7 Mechanics of Style ............................................................................................................................. 7 Punctuation (spacing after punctuation marks) ....................................................................................... 7 Comma (Serial, Oxford, or Harvard comma) ............................................................................................ 7 Punctuation (spacing after punctuation marks) ....................................................................................... 7 Do not use a Comma ................................................................................................................................. 8 Brackets ..................................................................................................................................................... 8 Economy of Expression .......................................................................................................................... 8-9 Capitalization ............................................................................................................................................ 9 Levels of Heading .......................................................................................................................... 9-10 Running Head .................................................................................................................................. 10 Fonts ............................................................................................................................................... 11 Title Page Elements .......................................................................................................................... 11 Email Communications / Personal Communications .......................................................................... 11 Citation of Website Materials Lacking Other Information .................................................................. 12 Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) .................................................................................................... 12-13 Information Related to APA Style ..................................................................................................... 13 Page 2 of 76 Citation of Double-Date Issues ......................................................................................................... 13 Examples of Reference Citations.................................................................................................. 13-19 New Interpretation: Citing Book Chapters Reprinted From Another Source .................................. 19-20 Citation of Book (Print & Electronic) With no Author or Editor .......................................................... 20 When to Cite Retrieval Date ............................................................................................................. 21 p. vs. pp. .......................................................................................................................................... 21 Citation of Secondary Sources .......................................................................................................... 21 Use a Colon ...................................................................................................................................... 21 Use Brackets .................................................................................................................................... 22 Use Double Quotation Marks ........................................................................................................... 23 Agreement of Subjects and Verbs ................................................................................................ 23-24 Dangling Modifers............................................................................................................................ 24 From APA Blog: Block Quotations in APA Style ............................................................................. 25-27 From APA Blog: Including the Year in Citations Appearing More Than Once in Paragraph.............. 28-29 From APA Blog: Citing an E-Book ................................................................................................. 29-30 In-Text Citations............................................................................................................................... 30 From APA Blog: Citing Books and Book Chapters .......................................................................... 30-32 Citing Website Material That has no Author, Year, and Page Numbers .............................................. 32 From APA Blog: Since vs. Because ................................................................................................ 32-33 From APA Blog: Ellipses—When and How? .................................................................................. 33-34 From APA Blog: How to use Five Levels of Heading in an APA Style Paper ..................................... 35-37 From APA Blog: Five Essential Tips for APA Style Headings ................................................................ 37 From APA Blog: Headings and use of Boldface Type .......................................................................... 38 From APA Blog: Citing Something Found on a Website in APA Style .............................................. 38-41 From APA Blog: Using Serial Commas .......................................................................................... 41-42 Page 3 of 76 From APA Blog: Lists: Commas and Semicolons ............................................................................ 42-43 From APA Blog: Lists, Part 3: Lowercase Letters ........................................................................... 43-44 From APA Blog: Lists: Numbered Lists .......................................................................................... 44-45 From APA Blog: Bulleted Lists ...................................................................................................... 45-48 From APA Blog: Over the Hedge .................................................................................................. 48-49 From APA Blog: Citing References Containing Lead Authors With Same Surname & Pub. Date ...... 49-51 From APA Blog: When to use Author Initials for Text Citations ..................................................... 51-53 From APA Blog: Timestamps for Audiovisual Materials in APA Style ............................................. 53-55 From APA Blog: Punctuation Junction: Punctuation Before Quotation Marks................................ 55-57 From APA Blog: Pluralize Numbers and Abbreviations Without Apostrophes ................................ 57-58 From APA Blog: Group Authors ................................................................................................... 58-59 From APA Blog: Navigating Copyright: How to Cite Sources in a Table .......................................... 59-62 From APA Blog: Principles of Good Writing: Avoiding Plagiarism .................................................. 62-64 From APA Blog: How to Cite a Blog Post in APA Style ................................................................... 64-66 From APA Blog: Punctuation Juncture: Hyphens, En Dashes, and Slashes ........................................... 67 From APA Blog: How to Capitalize and Format Reference Titles in APA Style ................................ 67-70 From APA Blog: Citing Different Groups of Authors With Same Lead Author & Pub. Date .............. 70-72 From APA Blog: DOI Display Guidelines Update (March 2017) ...................................................... 72-77 Special Note: June 2018 Some of the above topics are from the APA Blog on the APA website. According to APA policies, use of this material is limited to classroom or teaching purposes only. Please do not reproduce or publish any part of this document without permission from the Permissions Office of the American Psychological Association. Thank you. Susan Sweat Gunby, PhD, RN Page 4 of 76 Georgia Baptist College of Nursing of Mercer University Prepared by Susan Sweat Gunby, PhD, RN APA Style & Grammar Review 2018-2019 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th
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