Talk:PubMan Func Spec Export/APA

The Citation Style of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Basic Rules

Authors:

• if there are two authors, please connect them with ",&", e.g.: Wegener, D. T., & Petty, R. E.
• if there are 3-6 authors: commas separate author names, while the last author name is preceded again by ampersand. E.g.: Kernis, M. H., Cornell, D. P., Sun, C. R., Berry, A., & Harlow, T.
• give the last name and initials for all authors of a particular work unless the work has more than six authors. If the work has more than six authors, list the first six authors and then use et al. E.g.: Harris, M., Karper, E., Stacks, G., Hoffman, D., DeNiro, R., Cruz, P., et al.
• if there are no authors, move title to the author position, before the date of publication.

--Makarenko 16:04, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

• Initails handling
• Organization as author handling

Hi Vlad, what do you mean by initials handling and Organization as author handling? Are these point missing in the spec.? --Nicole 10:00, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Editors:

• if the book has creator of type editor, use the abbreviation (Ed.) or (Eds.) after the last editor's name. Please use (Ed.) for one editor and (Eds.) for more than one.
• if there are no editors, move title to the author position, before the date of publication.

Titles:

• Capitalize all major words in journal titles.
• When referring to any work that is NOT a journal, such as a book, article, or Web page, capitalize only the first letter of the first word of a title and subtitle, the first word after a colon or a dash in the title, and proper nouns. Do not capitalize the first letter of the second word in a hyphenated compound word.
• Italicize titles of longer works such as books and journals.
• Do not italicize, underline, or put quotes around the titles of shorter works such as journal articles or essays in edited collections.

Outcome of TelCo, 14.1.09: rule concerning titles will not be implemented. --Nicole 07:50, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Dates:

If date published in print is filled in -> fill in the year

if no date published in print is filled in, look for dates in this order:

• date published online --> render it as: in press
• date accepted --> render it as: in press
• date submitted --> render it as: submitted for publication
• date modified --> render it as: in preparation
• date created --> render it as: in preparation (Exception: if genre= manuscript --> Date created should be treated like a normal date and be visible)

comments: date published online: whether this should be rendered as 'in press' or rendered as 'published online with date' is an issue which Jos should decide for the website.

Are there news about this issue? --Nicole 10:00, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

comments: Omissions: These rules have the assumption that material will be published in print at a certain time, which isn't always true - neither for 'normal' publications like journal articles or book (chapters), and certainly not for genres, like talks,teaching etc.

I now ordered the APA Style Guide to Electronic References to know exactly how to cite electronic publications. --Karin 14:56, 17 September 2008 (UTC) How does one state that the publication is an online publication and citing rules for electronic publications apply?

Unfortunately just another question: Is a date published online sufficient if the publication is "published online" (and we do not know if it will be published in press)? If it would be published in press, then date published in print should also be populated. If not -> we have no knowledge. Or it is actually completely different rule? Btw. In both cases extra metadata on e.g. Journal issn / e-issn should be added? ?--Natasa 16:15, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

If you look eg into EndnoteX you will see that they have separate reference types (=genre) for electronic article, electronic book,journal article, book with defifferent metadata fields (eg date accessed),maybe due to citing styles? I will wait until I get the new APA guidelines - to look into this further, maybe it can be 'easily' solved if we just change the rule for citing published online publications.--Karin 18:22, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

if no date is available (or no date is visible according to the rules), "(n.d.)" should appear in the place of date. e.g. Beck, B. J., & Krueger, D.H. (n.d.). A comparison between two things.

Vlad, have you already implemented that rule? --Nicole 10:00, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Please note that the date should never be the first element of the citation. E.g. if there are no authors or editors, date should come after the title, not before. Also see example for "Book with no author, no editor".

Journal Article

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume (issue number), pages.

e.g.: Scruton, R. (1996). The eclipse of listening. The New Criterion, 15(30), 5-13.

--Makarenko 16:50, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

• Where to put Editors if available?

• To my understanding Editors are not listed with type JOURNAL. I guess you are referring to eg. http://edoc.mpg.de/359277 where the journal article is in a special issue of the journal. The APA citation doesn't mention the special issue editors. In the case of the edoc 359277 the citation should read:
  Gullberg, M. & McCafferty, S.G. (2008). Introduction to gesture and SLA: Toward an integrated approach. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 30, 133-146.

Does this answer your question? --Karin 13:05, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

• Does it means, that Editors should be omitted for the APA citation style generation for the genre "Journal Article"? --Makarenko 14:09, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes, do my knowledge it should! --Karin 16:30, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Books

Books with creator of type author

Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title: Alternative Title. Place of Publication: Name of Publisher.

e.g.: Calfee, R. C., & Valencia, R. R. (1991). APA guide to preparing manuscripts for journal publication. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Books with creator of type editor

Editor, A. A. (Ed.). (Year of publication). Title: Alternative Title. Place of Publication: Name of Publisher.

e.g.: Duncan, G. J., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (Eds.). (1997). Consequences of growing up poor. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Books with creators of type author and editor

Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title: Alternative Title (A.A. Editor, Ed.). Place of Publication: Name of Publisher.

e.g.: Plath, S. (2000). The unabridged journals (K.V. Kukil, Ed.). New York: Anchor.

Books with no author, no editor

Title of publication.(Year of publication). Place of publication: Name of Publisher.

e.g. Webster's Dictionary. (1933). Washington, DC: Merriam Webster.

Book Chapter

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year of publication). Title of book chapter. In A. Editor & B. Editor (Eds.), Title of book: Alternative Title (Start Page-End Page). Place of Publication: Name of Publisher.

e.g.: O'Neil, J. M., & Egan, J. (1992). Men's and women's gender role journeys: Metaphor for healing, transition, and transformation. In B. R. Wainrib (Ed.), Gender issues across the life cycle (pp. 107-123). New York: Springer.

Proceedings Paper

Author, A. A., & Author, B. (Year of Publication). Title of proceedings paper. Title of proceedings, volume, startpage-endpage.

e.g.: Smith, J. H., & Thomas, R. (1985). Adults in a learning society. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of Adult Education Researchers, 24, 44-55.

Thesis

Treat like a book.

Issue

Editor, A. A., & Editor, B. (Eds.). (Year of Publication). Issue.Title. Source.Title, Source.Volume(Number of issue).

e.g. Barlow, D.H. (Ed.). (1993). The science of classification [Special Issue]. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 100(3).

• Question: Shall we always just type "[special issue]" or is it part of the title? --Nicole 15:23, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

• Always type [Special issue] --Karin 13:49, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

• Implemented. --Makarenko 14:11, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Suggestions for the citation of other genres

Journal

Editor, A. A., & Editor, B. (Year of Publication). Title of Journal. Place of Publication: Publisher.

e.g. Mann, T., & Beck, F. (2008). Journal of Testing Purposes. New York: Springer.

Manuscript

Author, A. A., & Author, B. (Year of Publication). Title of manuscript. Unpublished manuscript.

e.g. Smith, J. H., & Thomas, R. (1996). Thematic segmentation of psychotherapy transcripts for convergent analyses. Unpublished manuscript.

Proceedings

Editor, A., & Editor, B. (Eds.). (Year of Publication). Proceedings from: Title of Event. Place of Publication: Name of Publisher.

e.g.: Schnase, J.L., & Cunnius, E.L. (Eds.). (1995). Proceedings from CSCL '95: The First International Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Series

Editor, A. (Ed.). (Year of Publication). Title (Vols. start volume-end volume). Place of Publication: Name of Publisher.

e.g.: Wiener, P. (Ed.). (1973). Dictionary of the history of ideas (Vols. 1-4). New York: Scribner's.

Talk at event

Author, A. A., & Author, B. (Year of Publication). Publication.Title. Event.Title. Event.Place.

e.g. Smith, J. H., & Thomas, R. (1996). Relaxation therapy for elderly insomniacs. Symposium in insomnia. Uppsala, Sweden.

Poster

Treat like talk at event.

Paper

Treat like journal article.

Report

Author, A. A., & Author, B. (Year of Publication). Report.Title (Report.Identifier). Place of Publication: Publisher.

e.g. Broadhurst, R. G., & Maller, R. A. (1991). Sex offending and recidivism (Tech. Rep. No. 3). New York: State Institute for Crime Research.

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