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APA Style

Last updated March 21, 2009 - 4:44pm by Aga Palalas

Attached is the link to the APA Style Guide to Electronic References (2007)

http://0-libdb.athabascau.ca.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/db/apa-style_reference.pdf

This is the companion guide to the 5th edition APA manual. It replaces the electronic reference information found in the 5th edition manual. 

 

Bullets in APA style: Here's what I found about the "no no" for using bullet lists in APA style:

Lists and Seriation

The APA Style Manuals recommend that you list steps in a procedure or other itemized information as a numbered list. The Manual does not promote bulleted lists. If you have more than two items to list, the approved mechanism is to letter them as options within a paragraph: (a) first option, (b) second option, and (c) third option. Use commas to separate them unless they are long or include their own punctuation, in which case you should use

semi-colons... to separate them...If you do include a bulleted or numbered list, check for parallel construction, i.e., consistency of punctuation,

style, indentation, and voice.

• Are all the entries sentences? Fragments?

• Do they all end in a period? Semi-colon? No punctuation?

• Are they all active verbs? Passive verbs? Gerunds?

MS Word has a list feature that will typeset numbered or bulleted lists with appropriate spacing and indentation.

 
http://graduate.appstate.edu/forms_graduate/thesis-dissertation-forms/apa-style-addendum.pdf