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abbreviation for ASSOCIATION OF POLICE AUTHORITIES.
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Although students had access to an online guide with links to guidance on how to properly cite sources using APA style, we found that students needed more help in understanding how to cite scholarly articles.
Applying an information literacy rubric to first-year health sciences student research posters
Embedded into an entry-level nursing course, the boot camp sought to improve student research, citation, and APA style writing.
Evolving through Collaboration: Standardizing Citation Instruction Across the Curriculum
These articles were from the social sciences, which were included in the Institute for Scientific information (ISI), Thomson Reuters, or Journal Citation Reports, whose "instructions for the authors" recommend APA style as a reference guide for elaboration.
Design and Validation of a Rubric to Assess the Use of American Psychological Association Style in scientific articles
They also will need to know how to distinguish scholarly journal articles from other types of periodical literature, how to find relevant empirical journal articles in psychology, and how to cite sources using APA style.
Emerging information literacy and research-method competencies in urban community college psychology students
* For APA, capitalize all words of more than three letters (for example, From would be capitalized in a title in APA style but not in MLA style).
Chapter 30: Punctuation I--end marks, capitalization, apostrophes, abbreviations, numerals, italics, underlining, and quotation marks
Figure captions are to be on an attached page, as required by APA style. Figures (graphs, illustrations, line drawings) must be supplied in electronic format with a minimum resolution of 600 dots per inch (dpi) up to 1200 dpi.
Guidelines for authors
the American Psychological Association (APA) site on APA style, http:// www.apastyle.org/index.aspx;
Beyond the APA manual, facebook "friends," opening letters, student writing, and teaching style (9-1)
Appendices provide a guide to APA style and statistical randomization.
Research methods for the behavioral sciences
Reporting statistics in APA style: A short guide to handling numbers and statistics in APA format.
Presenting your results-II: inferential statistics
Writing in APA style is not just about correctly formatting in-text citations and references.
Practice application briefs
Instead, authors should submit one APA style abstract of 100 to 150 words; the abstract should discuss the findings.
A letter from the coeditors
The Journal of Agricultural Education uses the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition (i.e., APA Style) as its primary writing style guide.
Enhancing the quality of manuscripts submitted to the journal of agricultural education: perceptions of experienced reviewers

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