Dear Rick,
Wise advice - thanks.
Sincerely,
Stuart
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Froman [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: July 28, 2009 2:30 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: RE:[tips] APA Style Questions
I hope this doesn't confuse things further but in a question I asked about the
Abstract (should it be in boldface or not?) on the APA style blog
(http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2009/07/five-essential-tips-for-apa-style-headings.html),
Chelsea Lee indicated that both the Abstract and References section should be
formatted just as the title is despite what the example shows. They are not
section headings. I think this would apply to the Footnotes heading. In fact,
in the text, using a separate Footnotes page at the end of a paper is
considered a less favorable option that just using the word processor to put
footnotes at the bottom of the page on which they appear. I also believe the
Appendix would appear as described in the text, not as it appears in the Sample
paper.
Here is the text of what I asked on the blog and the reply I received.
"Rick Froman said...
Thanks so much for your help with the headers.
In the text of the Manual on p. 27, it says nothing about putting the word
Abstract in bold. It seems to be treated like the title which makes sense
because the word Abstract will probably not even appear in the text of the
journal. However, in the sample paper on p. 41, it appears bold like a first
level heading. Should the word Abstract at the top of p. 2 in a manuscript be
in boldface or not?
And more generally, in the case of finding any inconsistencies between the text
and the sample papers, is there a general rule for resolving the conflict. For
example, should the text always supersede the sample paper? Thanks for your
help."
July 22, 2009 at 11:02 AM
"Chelsea Lee said in reply to Rick Froman...
When in doubt, follow the text, not the sample papers. The text is your best
resource. Since it doesn't mention using bold type, so put Abstract in regular
font, centered, first letter capitalized, at the top of the page (the same
would hold for the title References on the references page). Thanks for
bringing our attention to this discrepancy too! Hope that helps. :)"
Rick
Dr. Rick Froman, Chair
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
John Brown University
Siloam Springs, AR 72761
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From: Stuart McKelvie [[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 12:57 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] APA Style Questions
Dear Tipsters,
I apologize in advance if this has been covered, but I think not.
1. On p. 51 if the new manual, the "Footnotes" heading has no boldface and no
italics. Because other section headings are different (e.g. References is in
bold), I am wondering about this one.
2. On page 39, it is stated that an Appendix should have the word "Appendix" in
the centre at the top of the page, followed on the next line by a title. My
question is: Is Appendix in italics as on p. 39 or is it presented in some
other manner? In addition, how is the title to be shown?
Sincerely,
Stuart
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"Recti cultus pectora roborant"
Stuart J. McKelvie, Ph.D., Phone: 819 822 9600 x 2402
Department of Psychology, Fax: 819 822 9661
Bishop's University,
2600 rue College,
Sherbrooke,
Québec J1M 1Z7,
Canada.
E-mail: [email protected] (or [email protected])
Bishop's University Psychology Department Web Page:
http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Palij [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: July 27, 2009 7:39 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Cc: Mike Palij
Subject: [tips] A Larger Problem Involving Gates
ABC News (US version) has a short article on its website about prior
racial problems in Cambridge, MA, and at Harvard and MIT; see:
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=8170735
The larger issue is how well represented are African-Americans as
faculty in our institutions of higher learning (outside of traditionally
Black colleges)? Apparently, not very well. Can departments of
psychology claim to have any better representation?
Maybe summer reading lists can add Robert Guthrie's "Even the Rat
was White" as a prompt for some self-reflection. Available at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0205392644
-Mike Palij
New York University
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