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Concise Rules of APA Style, 6th edition |
Concise Guide to APA Style, 7th edition |
Publication date |
published on June 29, 2009 |
published on December 24, 2019 |
Audience |
graduate and undergraduate students, instructors, researchers, and editors |
high school and undergraduate students, instructors, and new writers learning APA Style |
Format |
paperback or spiral-bound; in 2-color; 4.5 × 8.5 in.; 280 pp. |
spiral-bound or ebook; spiral-bound is in full color |
Size |
4.5 × 8.5 in. |
5.5 × 8.5 in. |
Page count |
280 pages |
326 pages |
Paper formatting guidelines |
guidelines for professional papers |
guidelines for student papers and annotated bibliographies |
Sample papers |
sample professional paper |
sample student paper |
Sample tables and figures |
28 sample tables and figures |
23 sample tables and figures |
Citation guidelines and sample references |
96 sample references, including traditional sources (e.g., journal articles, books, dissertations, and reports) plus archival sources, legal sources, and others |
118 sample references, including traditional sources (e.g., journal articles, books, dissertations, and reports) plus many others (e.g., social media, webpages and websites, legal) |
Bias-free language guidelines |
general guidelines for reducing bias and specific guidelines for writing about gender, sexual orientation, racial and ethnic identity, disabilities, and age |
expanded to include general guidelines for reducing bias and specific guidelines for writing about age, disability, gender, participation in research, racial and ethnic identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and intersectionality |
Accessibility guidelines |
not included |
guidelines that support accessibility for all users, including simplified reference, in-text citation, and heading formats as well as additional font options |
Writing style and grammar |
guidelines for effective scholarly writing and grammar and usage; strategies to help students improve their writing |
guidelines for effective scholarly writing and grammar and usage, including updated usage of pronouns; strategies to help students improve their writing |
Mechanics of style |
guidance on punctuation, lists, italics, spelling, capitalization, abbreviations, numbers, metrication, statistics, and equations |
guidance on punctuation, lists, italics, spelling, capitalization, abbreviations, numbers, metrication, statistics, and equations |