Dear Tipsters,
Trying to figure out what APA want is grim task. Trying to figure out WHY they
want it is even grimmer.
In the older versions of the manual I think I remember reading their reason for
having a short title and a running head. The short title in the header (sic!)
does not appear in the published article and was designed to allow someone to
put manuscript pages back together if they were dropped on the floor. The
meaningful running head on the title page ends up in the article itself to give
the reader a quick understanding of the paper.
That was helpful.
Sincerely,
Stuart
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-----Original Message-----
From: Serafin, John [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: October 22, 2009 1:47 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] APA 6: CI, no italics
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
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John Serafin
Psychology Department
Saint Vincent College
Latrobe, PA 15650
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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.
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