Pocket Guide to APA Style

The POCKET GUIDE TO APA STYLE, 4th Edition, is an essential tool for writing research papers across the disciplines! Concise and thorough, the POCKET GUIDE offers straightforward explanations, annotated examples, and margin notes designed to help the writer produce properly documented papers in the latest APA style. Not only less expensive and easier to use than the APA Manual, the POCKET GUIDE also includes extensive coverage of electronic sources, preparing writers to both evaluate and correctly use Internet references in their research.

div class="aplus" br hr/ h2About This Edition/h2 pFrom the Publisher/p br/ h3New Features/h3 ul liuCurrent throughout./u This edition is updated to incorporate all essential changes reflected in the corrected sixth edition of the iPublication Manual of the American Psychological Association/i (2009)./libr/ liuExtensive coverage of electronic sources./u The fourth edition of the iPocket Guide/i features extensive, updated information to help readers use and evaluate Internet references in their research. Chapter 1 includes expanded discussions of periodical databases and online catalogs./libr/ liuNew and expanded material./u Highly technical aspects of APA style--including word spacing, seriation, dashes, and hyphenation--are carefully presented to enhance users' understanding./libr/ liuUpdated examples./u More than 140 reference entries with corresponding in-text citations offer a wealth of models./libr/ /ul h3Additional Features/h3 ul liuEasy access:/u Concise and straightforward, the iPocket Guide to APA Style/i covers topics in short chapters that keep all discussions of an issue within a single section, making it easy to look for and find information quickly when needed. Chapters are efficiently organized according to different kinds of sources--periodicals (Chapter 5), books and other separately published materials (Chapter 6), audiovisual materials (Chapter 7), and electronic sources (Chapter 8)./libr/ liuTwo sample APA-style papers/u--one argumentative and one experimental--are carefully annotated to give users extra support as they master the elements of manuscript preparation and documentation principles./libr/ liuA useful introductory chapter, "Writing Scholarly Papers,"/u reviews common procedures and practices of basic research methods, reminding users of what they already know before they begin assimilating new material./libr/ liuTo help users avoid and understand plagiarism,/u the author includes examples of incorrect documentation, as well as corrections that illustrate the correct documentation of the source material./libr/ liuVisual aids,/u including tables and charts throughout, help users review chapter content./libr/ /ul /div