Preferred Spellings
Use the Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary and the APA Dictionary of Psychology to determine how to spell, hyphenate, and capitalize words in APA Style papers.
APA receives many questions about the spellings of technology terms. Some examples of common terms are provided next for ease of reference:
| ebook | |
| ereader | database |
| data set | smartphone |
| internet | intranet |
| Wi-Fi | website |
| webpage | the web |
| home page | username |
| login page (but “log in” when used as a verb) | emoji (for the plural, either “emoji” or “emojis”) |
Spelling is covered in Section 6.11 of the APA Publication Manual, Seventh Edition
This guidance has been expanded from the 6th edition.
Date created: September 2019