{"id":151,"date":"2019-12-06T09:36:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T14:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/?p=151"},"modified":"2019-12-06T09:38:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T14:38:46","slug":"apa-7th-edition-whats-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/2019\/12\/06\/apa-7th-edition-whats-new\/","title":{"rendered":"APA 7th Edition:  What\u2019s new?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-152 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/files\/2019\/12\/book-collage_tcm11-262933_w1024_n-204x210.jpg\" alt=\"APA 7th Edition\" width=\"204\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/files\/2019\/12\/book-collage_tcm11-262933_w1024_n-204x210.jpg 204w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/files\/2019\/12\/book-collage_tcm11-262933_w1024_n-487x500.jpg 487w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/files\/2019\/12\/book-collage_tcm11-262933_w1024_n.jpg 519w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 85vw, 204px\" \/><small>By <a href=\"mailto:kyle.downey@shu.edu\">Kyle Downey<\/a>, Health Sciences Librarian<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Back in October the American Psychological Association (APA) released the 7<sup>th<\/sup> edition of their APA <em>Publication Manual<\/em>.\u00a0 It has been nearly a decade since the 6<sup>th<\/sup> edition was released and with this newest edition we see several additions and revisions.<\/p>\n<p>So, what is new?<\/p>\n<p>Some changes to the new publication will be immediately noticeable to the user who has used the previous 6<sup>th<\/sup> edition.\u00a0 First, the new manual is in full color throughout the entire publication.\u00a0 Some other changes include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Citing of online material, with a focus on social media<\/li>\n<li>Inclusion of bias-free language<\/li>\n<li>Guidelines on writing without bias that addresses age, disability, gender, race and ethnicity, including the singular use of \u201cthey\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Using shortened URLs and shortDOIs if a URL or DOI is long and complex<\/li>\n<li>Removal of publisher locations for books and book chapters<\/li>\n<li>An in-text citation with 3 or more authors is to be shortened to include only the first authors name and \u201cet al\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Website URLs no longer need to be preceded with \u201cRetrieved from\u201d unless there is also a retrieval date<\/li>\n<li>A single space after any body-text punctuation rather than 2 spaces<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To learn more about the new publication manual, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/apastyle.apa.org\/blog\">APA style blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both the Walsh Library and the IHS Library also have permanent reference copies available for faculty and students to use.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0Elias, Daniel. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mybib.com\/blog\/apa-style-7th-edition-changes\">APA Style 7th Edition: What&#8217;s Changed?<\/a>\u201d\u00a0<em>MyBib<\/em>, MyBib, 14 Sept. 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kyle Downey, Health Sciences Librarian Back in October the American Psychological Association (APA) released the 7th edition of their APA Publication Manual.\u00a0 It has been nearly a decade since the 6th edition was released and with this newest edition we see several additions and revisions. So, what is new? Some changes to the new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/2019\/12\/06\/apa-7th-edition-whats-new\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;APA 7th Edition:  What\u2019s new?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4241,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,50,21],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-apa","tag-citations","tag-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}