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The style manual for the American Psychological Association.

The American Psychological Association is a professional organization for psychologists. APA style is thus a style for scholarly publications, created by the APA for its journals and widely adopted in the social sciences. Its standards are published in the Publication Manual for the American Psychological Association.

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Is there a comprehensive APA style manual available online?

I am new to APA style and have noticed that web search results for specific APA style questions (e.g. "apa style p-values") tend to yield results from Q/A sites or of people's personal blogs summarizing the style, rather than any official-looking,…
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In APA, how do I cite two sources in a sentence? Where one mentions another and I want to retain the reference of that mention

For instance, the author that is commentating on the primary source is named Foster. The primary source is Dante's Inferno. I want to make reference to the primary source that Foster is addressing in the in-text citation but I also want to reference…
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Reporting Satterthwaite approximated degrees of freedom (APA 6ed)

Is there any established way of reporting approximated degrees of freedom (be it Satterthwaite or Kenward–Roger) for mixed-effects model in psychology (APA 6 ed.)? Specifically, is rounding to whole numbers considered best practice or should I stick…
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APA: How to cite an application report or an application note

I'm working on an engineering project and lots of the design decisions I've made are based on application notes or application reports made by manufacturers, like this one: http://www.ti.com/lit/an/slva057/slva057.pdf How can I cite this kind of…
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APA style in-text citations

How would one differentiate between two different sources (websites) that both: Have the same title Have an unknown author Do not list a publishing date/year
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APA citation style for different authors with the same last name

Let's assume I have a citation list that includes the three different hypothetical authors A. Miller, B. Miller, and C. Miller (besides Y. Young, S. Stevens, and Z. Zona): Miller, A., & Young, Y. (2001) Miller, B., & Stevens, S. (2002) Stevens, S.,…
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APA - More sources from same author and same year than there are characters in the alphabet?

In my research, I've used 37 articles from https://developer.mozilla.org/ as sources. These are articles written by multiple contributors, kind of like how Wikipedia works. From what I understand, you need to add lower-case letters to your sources…
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Question regarding topics and headings for APA papers

I am writing a trending topic paper for my Sociology class using APA format. I have 10 topics that I must talk about. How do I do this with the headings? I need the reader to know the different topics I am talking about.
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