APA (7th Edition) for Nursing and Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences: Welcome

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Students who will be writing for assignments should read chapters 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, & 10. (The remaining chapters cover aspects of writing for professional publication).

• Basic information about headings and in-text citations is found inside the front cover.

  • More detailed information about headings - pp.  47 to 49

  • More detailed information about in-text citations - pp. 261-269

• A sample professional paper appears on pages 50 to 60.

• A sample student paper appears on pages 61 to 67.

• Abbreviations for units of measurement - p. 175

• Appendices - p. 41

• Appropriate level of citation - p. 253

• Citing Interviews and Personal communications - pp. 259 to 261

• Lists - pp. 189 to 191

• Numbers - pp. 178 to 181

• Paraphrasing (including long paraphrases) - pp. 269 to 270

• Plagiarism and self-plagiarism - pp. 254 to 257

• Capitalization- differences between title case and sentence case, and when to use each - pp. 167 and 168

• Italics – when to use - pp. 170 and 171

• Reference list – pp. 303 to 307

• Sample reference entries - pp. 313 to 352

• Most used resource types appear on the following pages:

  • Journal articles and other types of periodicals - pp. 316 to 321

  • Books - pp. 321 to 325

  • Book chapters - pp. 326 to 329

  • Reports - pp. 329 to 331

  • Dissertations and theses - pp. 333 to 334

  • Webpages and websites - pp. 350 to 352