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Copyediting Guidelines and APA Citation Style

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EBLIP Style Manual: Copyediting Guidelines

 

The EBLIP Style Manual provides guidelines and examples for authors and editors to guide preparation of manuscripts submitted to EBLIP. Beginning with volume 5, 2010, EBLIP’s publication style is based on that of the American Psychological Association, an international standard for writing in the social sciences. Many university websites provide guidance on the application of APA’s citation procedures, and several are referenced at the end of this manual.

 

Use the latest 7th edition (2020) of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. The APA style website has a list of helpful notes: http://www.apastyle.org/ On this site, the APA Style Blog in particular contains useful advice and examples: https://apastyle.apa.org/blog

 

APA style uses the author-date method for in-text references so that the author’s last name and year of publication for the cited reference appears in the text or in a parenthetical notation following the sentence. Example: “Smith (2005) identified four traits . . .” The full reference to Smith’s 2005 publication is in the (alphabetical) list of references at the end of the manuscript.

 

EBLIP is an international electronic journal published in Canada, and Canadian English standards are the guide for spelling and punctuation. The reference list at the end of this manual lists helpful guides to Canadian spelling.

 

APA Citation Style

 

APA style uses an author-date style of references. Sources are identified in the text with parenthetical author-date notations that refer to full title listings at the end of the manuscript in a list of References. Cite the page number when material is a direct quote or paraphrase of a specific statement from the work cited.

 

In the text:

In the list of References:

Textbook studies on implementing new library services tell us about the value of thoughtful data collection for information needs analysis, planning, testing, and evaluation of services (Bopp & Smith, 2001).

Bopp, R. E., & Smith, L. C. (2001). Reference

and information services: An introduction (3rd ed.). Libraries Unlimited. 

 

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