Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association / Edition 3

by American Psychological Association Staff

Overview

This new, fourth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, the first revision since the 1983 edition, offers updated information in four key areas: reporting statistics; writing without bias; preparing manuscripts with a word processor for electronic production; and publishing research in accordance with ethical principles of scientific publishing.

Two goals shape the changes throughout the fourth edition: (a) to encourage authors to write about their research with specificity and (b) to write about their participants with sensitivity and accuracy.

Regular users of the Publication Manual will find the chapters on editorial style and manuscript preparation to be comfortably familiar and a bit easier to use than in previous editions. Manuscript format requirements are more flexible and enable authors to take advantage of default settings available on most word processors.

The Publication Manual gives you all the information you need about the process of publication---from organizing, writing, keying, and submitting your manuscript, to seeing the accepted manuscript through production and publication. Plus, this fourth edition raises awareness of ethics issues in publishing and of choosing accurate, sensitive words in describing people.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780912704579
Publisher:	American Psychological Association
Publication date:	05/28/1983
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

Table of Contents

        Chapter 1

Parts of a Manuscript Title Page

Revised policy on displaying affiliations

Method

More guidance on describing research participants

Results

Detailed guidelines for reporting statistics

Chapter 2

Expression of Ideas and Reducing Bias in Language

Expanded section provides general guidelines for writing about people with sensitivity

and accuracy and features a table showing problematic versus preferred usages

Chapter 3

Scientific Abbreviations

New section on APA style for abbreviations and a list of common units of measure

Headings

Information on organizing headings

Statistical Symbols

A list of common statistics

Tables

More examples of presenting results of analyses of variance, regression analyses, and

LISREL models

Figures

More detailed examples of well-executed figures and better guidelines for

creating them

References

Examples of references for electronic sources and legal materials

Chapter 4

Manuscript Preparation and Sample Paper

Completely rewritten with the word processor in mind

Functions That Can Help and Hinder Typesetting

Special characters

Italics versus underlining

Using spell checkers

More Flexible Formatting Guidelines for Manuscripts

Simplified spacing requirements after punctuation

Simplified indention requirements

Simplified style for underlining in reference entries

Chapter 5

Manuscript Acceptance and Electronic Production

New section explains how to prepare electronic files for streamlined production

Reviewing the Copyedited Manuscript

Instructions for reviewing copyediting done on-line or on paper

Chapter 6

Ethics of Scientific Publication, APA Journals Program

New section explaining the ethical issues involved in reporting results, plagiarism,

authorship responsibilities, duplicate publication of data, data verification, the peer

review process, and treatment of research participants

Appendixes

A new section of tips for converting a dissertation or thesis into an article
The new checklist for manuscript submission
A new checklist for transmitting accepted manuscripts for electronic production

Index