[Air-L] APA Style to be updated July 1, 2009

[Debashis Aikat]

The American Psychological Association (APA) will release July 1, 2009 
its "sixth edition" of the Publication Manual of the APA. As you know, 
the current (fifth) edition was revised and updated July 2001.

Key to the "sixth edition" of APA style is a Web presence. On July 1, 
2009, APA will launch a fully revamped website featuring tutorials, sample 
papers, frequently asked questions, an APA Style blog, and
other resources about APA Style.

The sixth edition of APA Style offers new and expanded instruction on 
publication ethics, statistics, journal article reporting standards, 
electronic reference formats, and formats for tables and figures.

Some select features include:
~~ "new ethics guidance on such topics as determining authorship and terms 
of collaboration, duplicate publication, plagiarism and self-plagiarism, 
disguising of participants, validity of instrumentation, and making data 
available to others for verification;"

~~ "significantly expanded content on the electronic presentation of data 
to help readers understand the purpose of each kind of display and choose 
the best match for communicating the results of the investigation, with 
new examples for a variety of data displays, including 
electrophysiological and biological data;"

~~ "consolidated information on all aspects of reference citations, with 
an expanded discussion of electronic sources emphasizing the role of the 
digital object identifier (DOI) as a reliable way to locate information;"

~~ "simplified APA heading style to make it more conducive to electronic 
publication;"

~~ "new guidelines for reporting inferential statistics and a 
significantly revised table of statistical abbreviations;"

See more details at http://books.apa.org/books.cfm?id=4200066

Cordially,

Deb


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Debashis 'Deb' Aikat, Ph. D.
Associate Professor and Media Futurist
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
CB # 3365, Carroll Hall 374
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3365

Phone: 919 962 4090 (office)
Fax: 919 962 0620
Email: da at unc.edu

URL: http://www.unc.edu/~daikat/
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