APA Guidelines
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The acronym APA in English corresponds to American Psychological Association.
In 1929, this entity created homogeneous rules for the editing and presentation of documents.
writings. The purpose of these rules was clear: to provide common criteria so that
documents were written according to uniform rules. The set of these rules is what
what is known as the APA style or guidelines.
A group of psychologists and communication experts studied in detail how
Human beings mentally process the information that appears in documents.
From this study, a standard was created that meets the needs of the readers.
Numerous entities, administrations, and authors have decided to adopt the APA standards.
especially those that refer to the citation of textual references. (Stedia, 2013)
The APA Standards were initially aimed at scientific psychology, since the
professionals in this field were dedicated to conducting research. Currently,
this style of writing, preparation and organization of scientific and academic works has been
extended to a large part of the social sciences. Psychology is no longer the only social science that
adapt your manuscripts according to this model; Psycholinguistics, Sociology, Pedagogy, and others
Branches of the social sciences have adopted this style.
Basic aspects of APA guidelines
oSources: They are physical, electronic, audiovisual documents, among others, that have
served as support for the elaboration of the research work.
oReferences: These are the sources that have been selected for the preparation of the work.
investigative and that must appear at the end of the work.
oQuotes: There are three types of quotes:
a) Direct quotes: Sentence or paragraph that is transcribed exactly from
original document to the work in progress. Within this type of citations there are
two subtypes: a.a) Short contextual quote: when its content is less than 40 words
a.b) Long contextual citation: when its content is greater than 40 words. It is
It is important to clarify that this count does not take into account the connectors or
the prepositions.
b) Contextual citations: Important information is extracted from the source and paraphrased.
without modifying the original idea.
c) Citation of citations: Information from one author is obtained within the document of another.
author. (B., 2016)
Importance of APA Standards.
In the field of science and scientific research, there is an extensive protocol.
that indicates how to carry out the work but also how to publish it and with what rules. These
ideas have been concretized and grouped into the set of rules known as APA Standards.
It is considered fundamental and basic to write a scientific text following these rules as they
they allow organizing the reading as well as, and especially, the type of references that
It is built to search for material. Importance of APA Standards
In the field of science and scientific research, there is an extensive protocol.
which indicates how to carry out the work but also how to publish it and with what rules. These
ideas have been concretized and grouped into the set of rules known as APA Standards.
It is considered essential and fundamental to write a scientific text following these rules since the
they allow the reading to be arranged as well as, and especially, the type of references that
It is built to search for material. (Bembibre, 2018)
Bibliography
B., M. (November 21, 2016). Normasapa.net. Retrieved from
http://normasapa.net/information-and-basic-aspects/
Bembibre, C. (March 1, 2018). Importancia.org. Retrieved from
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Stedia. (May 8, 2013). slideshare. Obtained from
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