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American Psychological Association (Apa) Style: Alice T. Valerio, Ph.D. Dlsu-D
American Psychological Association (Apa) Style: Alice T. Valerio, Ph.D. Dlsu-D
16) Capitalization
In titles and headings, capitalize:
major words within the body of the paper
(excluding conjunctions, articles and short
prepositions); however, capitalize all words of four
letters or more.
Ex. In her study, Hedonic Price Indexes With Unobserved
Product Characteristics and Application to Personal
Computers . . .
Editing Style
Do not capitalize
names of laws, theories, models, or hypotheses
Ex. law of supply and demand, Maslows hierarchy of
needs, life cycle hypothesis
nouns that precede a variable (e.g. item y, experiment b)
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Average 266,322 (11.79) 90,261,726 (8.24)
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Note. From Title of Article, by Author and Author, 2004, Title of Journal, 50,p. 30
Copyright 2005 by the Name of copyright Holder. Reprinted with permission.
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28) Reference List
In text, cite them, respectively as: Sy, Tan, Co, et al. (2005)
and Sy, Tan, Lim, et al. (2005)
Encyclopedia or dictionary
Santos, D. R. (Eds.). (2007). The new science encyclopedia
(Vols. 1-20), London:Macmillan.
Proceedings of symposia
Minguez , G. R. (2006). The expanded corn program in the
Philippines. In A. F. Salgado (Ed.), Asian Regional Maize
Workshop (pp. 120-130), University of Bandung Press.
Indonesia.
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Unpublished doctoral dissertation
Cruz, D. D. (2002). Technical and institutional
change in renewable resource development
(with application for traditional fisheries).
Unpublished doctoral dissertation,
Madison University of Wisconsin.
Article in an internet
Environmental sustainability index. (n.d). Retrieved August
24, 2010, from http://www.cc.gatech.environ/fcu/.