PSYC 109 ---- FALL 2002    

APA Format

We will try to bring together a list of resources/guidelines for APA format. Although we don't expect to hold students to an extremely rigid standard for APA format, you do have to know the general outlines of the format and how to implement it. The following electronic sources will be useful to you. (Remember, on the web pages come and go. It you click on something and it won't load, it may no longer be an active site or the problem may be as simple as someone turning off their computer because they're going home.)

If you come across additional resources that you find helpful, please let me know and I will add them to this list.

• Acadia University in Canada has put together quite a nice site. Go to http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/psyc/McLeod/2023Research/apalinks.htm.
• A great site that focuses on students writing papers is found at the Perception Laboratory at Wayne State. Just go to http://www.science.wayne.edu/~psy3050/lectures/apa/. (The images are a bit slow to download, but don't give up.)
• The University of Phoenix has collected material on APA and other style guidelines. This is available at http://library.uophx.edu/lrc/write.htm .
• One of the best known set of standards for citation of electronic sources (such as material found on the web) was written at UVM by Nancy Crane and X Li. Their guidelines are available at http://www.uvm.edu/~ncrane/estyles/.
• The following sources were taken from a terrific web page by Gary Klatsky at Oswego. He deserves all of the credit for ferreting these out. I just copied from him and reformated it very slightly..

• The following are some sites I found last year. Some are redundant with what you have above, but others are new and very worth your time.

Sites for writing research reports using APA format
http://www.psych-web.com/resource/apacrib.htm   - a list of resources for APA writing http://owl.english.purdue.edu/Files/34.html   - from Purdue's OWL, where you can find hundreds of handouts on various writing issues
http://webster.commnet.edu/apa/apa_index.htm   - a list of answers to student questions about APA format
http://www.uwsp.edu/acad/psych/apa4.htm   - a nice hypertext guide to APA format
http://www.psych-web.com/tipsheet/labrep.htm   - nice checklists for figures and tables
http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/~clark/research/Sternberg.txt   - 21 tips  for improving your writing
 
Sites for doing library research on psychological topics
http://www.apa.org/science/lib.html   - advice from APA on library research

Psychology Megasites
http://www.wesleyan.edu/spn/tools.htm  
http://www.psych-web.com  
http://maple.lemoyne.edu/~hevern/psychref.html  
http://www.psych.neu.edu/psylink 
http://server.bmod.athabascau.ca/html/aupr/psycres.htm

Last revised: 09/13/02