APA 6TH TO APA 7TH
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WEBINAR GOALS
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03 INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE IN APA 7
PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS FOR APA 7
REFERENCING IN APA 7
Note: All materials, plus “quick guides” and resource links, will be emailed following this webinar.
THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 7TH EDITION
T2 is a transition period
In T2 APA 6 and 7 will both be accepted,
however, you must use one style
consistently throughout your assignment
PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS
- Use Microsoft Word
- ACAP coversheet still required
- Each page numbered in top, right hand corner
(use header)
- Header ONLY contains page number (name and
unit name not included)
TITLE PAGE
American Psychological Association. (2020, May 13). Title Page Setup. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/paper-format/title-page
- Various font sizes accepted in APA 7
- ACAP recommends 12pt Times New
Roman
- Must use same font throughout paper
FONT SIZE AND STYLE
- Double spacing with no extra spacing
between paragraphs
- Text is aligned to the left
- Indentation for first line of every paragraph at
1.27cm (one tab)
PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS CONT…
- Reference list on a new page
- Title References must be bold and centred
- Hanging indent of 1.27cm required for
reference list entries (tab in MS Word)
REFERENCE LIST
HEADINGS AND LABELS
- Headings not needed in all assessment types –
check with your educator
- Concise and descriptive
- No heading required for the introduction
American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000
SAMPLE STUDENT PAPER
Sample papers are available on the APA
website in annotated and word document
formats.
1)Which information is no longer included in a book
reference?
2)What is different about DOI and URL addresses?
( *Hint* there are 3 differences)
3)What is different about the title ‘References’?
REFERENCE LIST QUIZ
ANSWERS
1)The place of publication is no longer given for
books.
2) The 3 differences are: hyperlinks are left active,
‘retrieved from’ is no longer used in front of a URL
or DOI and short DOIs or URLs can be used.
3) The title ‘References’ is now in bold
REFERENCE LISTExample Reference for an Article With More
Than 20 Authors
Wiskunde, B., Arslan, M., Fischer, P., Nowak, L.,
Van den Berg, O., Coetzee, L., Juárez, U.,
Riyaziyyat, E., Wang, C., Zhang, I., Li, P., Yang,
R., Kumar, B., Xu, A., Martinez, R., McIntosh, V.,
Ibáñez, L. M., Mäkinen, G., Virtanen, E., . . .
Kovács, A. (2019). Indie pop rocks mathematics:
Twenty One Pilots, Nicolas Bourbaki, and the
empty set. Journal of Improbable
Mathematics, 27(1), 1935–1968.
https://doi.org/10.0000/3mp7y-537
IN-TEXT REFERENCING
For a work with three or more authors, include the
name of only the first author plus “et al.” in every
citation (even the first citation).
Example:
Smith et al. (2019) or (Smith et al., 2019)
SUMMARY OF KEY CHANGES
SUMMARY OF KEY CHANGES
SUMMARY OF KEY CHANGES
SUMMARY OF KEY CHANGES
USE OF SINGULAR PRONOUN ‘THEY’
Out. (2020,May 20). Singular ‘They’ Pronoun Endorsed by American Psychological Association. https://www.out.com/health/2019/11/05/singular-they-pronoun-endorsed-american-psychological-association
USE OF SINGULAR PRONOUN ‘THEY’
The client should practice self-care for their mental
health.
The client should practice self-care for his or her mental
health.
(a)“when referring to a generic person
whose gender is unknown or irrelevant to
the context and
(b) (b) when referring to a specific, known
person who uses “they” as their
pronoun.” (Lee, 2020)
WHEN TO USE ‘THEY’
FORMS OF THE SINGULAR ‘THEY’
MORE RESOURCES
o Sample Student Papers in APA 7 Style–
o APA Style Website
o ACAP library APA 7 Transition Hub
o APA 7TH Edition Publication Manual
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REFERENCESAmerican Psychological Association. (2020). Title Page Setup.
https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/paper-format/title-page
American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American
Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000
Lee, C. (2020, May 13). Welcome, Singular “They”. Apa Style Blog.
https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/singular-they
Out. (2020,May 20). Singular ‘They’ Pronoun Endorsed by American Psychological
Association. https://www.out.com/health/2019/11/05/singular-they-pronoun-
endorsed-american-psychological-association