APA Sixth Edition Publication Manual Cheat Sheet

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Abbreviations pp. 106-111

no apostrophe to make plural 4.29 pp. 110-111
Overuse/underuse 4.22 pp. 106-107
abbreviations accepted as words 4.24 p. 107
Latin abbreviaitons 4.26 p. 108
Common units of measurement Table 4.4, p. 109

Bias
Gender 3.12 pp. 73-74
Sexual Orientation 3.13 pp. 74-75
Racial and Ethnic Identity 3.14 pp. 75-76
Disabilities 3.15 p. 76
Age 3. 16 p. 76
Historical and Interpretive
3.17 pp. 76-77
Inaccuracies

Capitalization pp. 101-106

pp. 101-102,
titles/title case 4.15, 4.18
p.103
do not capitalize names of laws,
theories, models, statistical 4.16 pp. 102-103
procedues, hypothese
capitalize nouns followed by
4.17 p. 103
numerals
names or conditions of groups 4.19 p. 104
Names of factors, variables, effects 4.20. p. 104

Grammar & Style

Active v. Passive voice 3.18 pp.77-78
3.06, Smoothness of
When to use the past tense pp. 65-66
Express
3.18, Verbs p. 78
Subject-verb agreement 3.19 pp. 78-79
Pronoun agreement 3.2 pp. 79-80

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 3.22, Relative
Pronouns and
that vs. which p. 83
Subordinate
Conjunctions
Misplaced/dangling modifiers 3.21 pp. 81-82
that vs. who 3.20, Pronouns p. 79
while v. since 3.22 pp. 83-84
while v. although, and, or but 3.22 p. 84
since v. because 3.22 p. 84
Parallel Construction 3.23 pp. 84-86
Spacing after punctuation marks 4.01 pp. 87-88
Period 4.02 p. 88
Serial commas 4.03 pp. 88
Comma to set off nonessential clause 4.03 pp. 88-89

Comma to separate two independent

4.03 p. 89
clauses with conjunction

Comma to set off year in exact dates 4.03 p. 89

Comma to set off year in
4.03 p. 89
parenthetical citations
Comma to separate groups of three
4.03 p.89
digits
When not use a comma 4.03 p. 89
Cemicolons 4.04 pp. 89-90
Colons 4.04 p. 90
Dash 4.06 p. 90
Quotation marks 4.07, 4.08 p. 91-92
Parentheses 4.09 pp.93-94
Brackets 4.10. pp. 94-95
Slash 4.11 pp.95-96

Heading levels 3.02 & 3.03, pp. 62-63

Headling level chart 3.03 Table 3.1, p. 62
Headling level example 3.03 p. 63
definition of title case 3.03 Table 3.1, p. 62

In-text citation 6.11-6.21 pp. 174-179

Basic Citation Styles Table 6.1 p. 177
6.11, Work by One p. 174 Figure
When/how to cite
Author 6.1, pp. 169-170

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 1.10, Plagiarsim and
Plagiarism (additional info on how &
Self-Plagiarism; 6.01; pp. 15-16; p. 170
when to cite)
6.02
in-text citation (secondary source) 6.17 p. 178
in-text citation (personal
6.2 p. 179
communication)

6.08, Changes From

ellipses the Source Requiring pp.172-173
Explanation
Direct Quotes (Author, year, p.) 6.03 pp.170-171
Block Quotes 6.03 p. 171
citing page numbers for paraphrased
6.04 p. 171
information
citing paragraph number and section
6.05 pp. 171-172
in place of page
two works in same parentheses 6.16 pp. 177-178
one source, multiple authors 6.12 pp. 175-176
multiple sources, authors with same
6.14 p. 176
surname (include initial)
work with no author 6.15 pp. 176-177

Italics pp. 104-106

Italicize titles of books, periodicals,
4.21 p. 104
films, videos, TV shows, microfilm
genera, species, varieties 4.21 p. 105
introduce, new, technical, or key
4.21 p. 105
term
linguistic example 4.21 p. 105
words that could be misread 4.21 p. 105
anchors of a scale 4.21 p. 105
do not use italics for mere emphasis 4.21 p. 106

Manuscript Elements 2.01-2.13 pp. 23-40

Cover page, Title 2.01 p. 23
Cover page, Byline 2.02 pp. 23-24
Cover page, Author note 2.03 pp. 24-25
Abstract 2.04 pp. 25-27

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 Introduction (including no heading
2.05 pp. 27-28
rule)
Method 2.06 pp. 29-32
Results 2.07 pp. 32-35
Discussion 2.08 pp. 35-36
Multiple experiments 2.09 p. 36
Meta-Analysis 2.10. pp. 36-37
References 2.11 p. 37
Footnotes 2.12 pp. 37-38
Appendices and Supplemental
2.13 pp. 38-40
Material

Manuscript Examples Figures 2.1-2.3 pp. 41-59

Numbers pp. 111-115

Numbers expressed as numerals
4.31 pp. 111-112
(general)

Numbers expressed as numerals

(time, dates, ages, scores and points 4.31 p. 112
on a scale, exact sums of money

Numbers expressed as words for

4.31 p. 112
approximate days, months, years

Numbers expressed as numerals

(numbered series, parts of books, 4.31 p. 112
tables, list of four or more numbers
Numbers expressed in words 4.32 p. 112
Combination of words and numerals 4.33 pp. 112-113

Plurals of numbers (no apostrophe) 4.38 p. 114

Publication Process Ch. 8 pp. 225-243

Reference List 6.22-6.32 pp. 180-189

Abbreviaitons used in the reference
6.22 p. 180
list
6.25, , Order of
alphabetize by name References in the pp. 181-182
Reference List

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 several works by same author 6.25 p. 182
works by authors with same
6.25 p. 183
surname, different first name
use of "anonymous" 6.25 p. 183
6.27, Author and
spell out the full name of a group/org p. 184
Editor Information
write out up to 7 authors 6.27 p. 184
different authors with same surname
6.27 p. 184
& same initial
hyphenated first name 6.27 p. 184
(with Rivers, D. J.) 6.27 p. 184
title case, sentence case, and
6.29, Title p. 185
italicizing titles
publication information order, italics,
6.30. p. 186
etc.
Publication data for electronic
6.32 pp. 189-192
sources (DOI run-down)
What is the DOI? 6.31 pp. 188-189
Figures 6.2, 6.3, 6.4,
How to find the DOI pp. 189-191
6.5
Author as publisher 6.3 p. 187
State abbreviaitons (required for all
6.3 p. 187
cities)
Two or more locations (use the first
6.3 p. 187
listed)

Reference Examples Ch. 7 pp. 193-224

Seriation 3.04 pp. 63-65

verticle, numbered lists (ordinal;
imply chronology, importance, 3.04 pp. 63-64
priority)
verticle bullet points (nonordinal
3.04 p. 64
material)
elements in series within paragraph 3.04 p. 64
elements in series in bullets 3.04 p. 64-65

Spelling pp. 96-100

Use Merriam-Webster's Collegiage 4.12, Preferred
p. 96
Dictionary Spelling
hyphenation (em v. en dash) 4.13 p. 97

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 hyphenation chart 4.13 Table 4.1, p. 98
Prefix/suffic chart 4.13 Table 4.2, p. 99
Prefix/suffic chart (require hyphen) 4.13 Table 4.3, p. 100

Tables & Figures 5.01-5.30 pp. 125-167

Types of
1.01-1.06 pp. 10-11
Articles/Papers
Empirical studies 1.01 p. 10
Literature reviews 1.02 p. 10
Theoretical articles 1.03 p. 10
Methodological articles 1.04 pp. 10-11
Case studies 1.05 p. 11

Writing Style &

3.05-3.11 pp. 65-70
Scholarly Voice
Continuity; orderly presentation of
3.05 p. 65
ideas; transitions
Smoothness of Expression 3.06 pp. 65-66
Tone 3.07 pp. 66-67
Economy of Expression 3.08 pp. 67-68
Avoid wordiness 3.08 p. 67
Avoid redundancy 3.08 p. 67
Unit Length (varied syntax) 3.08 p. 68
Precision and Clarity 3.09 pp. 68-70
Strong word choice 3.09 p. 68
Avoid colloquial expressions 3.09 p. 68
Avoid jargon 3.09 p. 68
Only use pronouns when referrent is
3.09 p. 68
obvious
Avoid ambiguous or illogical
3.09 p. 68-69
comparison
Avoid third person when referring to
3.09 p. 69
yourself
Avoid anthropomorphism 3.09 p. 69
Editorial we 3.09 p. 69-70
No linguistic devices 3.10. p. 70
Improving writing & revision advice 3.11 p. 70

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