APA format
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Basically, there are several documentation styles required by higher educational establishments in the USA, UK and other English speaking countries. One of the most popular styles is APA. If a student is asked to use APA format for a paper, it won’t be needless to consult the book called the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th edition), which the American Psychological Association has recently updated. Citing electronic sources was a major part of this update as these types of sources are becoming more and more common in research within the social sciences. At present comprehensive information related to APA format is available only in the paper variant of this book. But soon such a state of things will be changed. Custom essay writing service ProfEssays plans to add new pages containing reliable and true data about APA requirements with all the modern updates to its site. It will offer complete guidelines for manuscript style and citation in APA, the documentation style of the social sciences as well as illustrate the most commonly used types of sources with examples drawn from the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 4th ed. and The Bedford Handbook for Writers, 4th ed. However, it is always important to remember a number of points about APA which are often ignored. First of all, APA uses an author/date style of in-text citations, referring by the author's last name to the References page at the end of the text. All references are double-spaced. For manuscripts submitted to journals, APA requires the form with the first lines of reference entries indented and subsequent lines flushed left. The hanging indent form with first line flushed left, subsequent lines indented is customary for student papers. It is better to check with ones instructor to determine which form is appropriate. It is allowed to capitalize only the first word of an article title and of the subtitle, if any, and any proper names. On the references page, one should not underline the title of an article or place quotation marks around it. It is possible to capitalize significant words in the title of a journal, the first significant word and only proper names within book titles and the first significant word of the subtitle. Due to the fact that personal communications (letters, interviews, telephone conversations) do not contain recoverable data, they are not included in the reference...