Heh, trying to figure out why some things are italicized and other things are not has always baffled me. The closest I've ever come to understanding it is to try to distinguish between symbols vs. abbreviations. So, for example, ANOVA is an abbreviation (and therefore not italicized); M is a symbol (and so is italicized). What is CI? Perhaps APA has decided it's an abbreviation, just as they've also apparently decided that HSD is an abbreviation rather than a symbol. <shrug>
What I tell my students: Please don't ever ask me to explain or justify these details of APA formatting. All I do is enforce them. John -- John Serafin Psychology Department Saint Vincent College Latrobe, PA 15650 [email protected] From: "Wuensch, Karl L" <[email protected]> Reply-To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:27:28 -0400 To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> Conversation: APA 6: CI, no italics Subject: [tips] APA 6: CI, no italics I also noted that "CI" (NOT set in italic font) is now the approved symbol for "confidence interval," as in "p = .006, CI [.13, .27]." Why not italic font? I have always though of a confidence interval as a statistic. Cheers, Karl W. -----Original Message----- From: Ken Steele [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 1:12 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] APA 6: s = estimated (from sample) population standard deviation So now we will need to teach students how to read pre-2009 vs post-2009 indexes of variability. Students are going to enjoy that wrinkle. --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
