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Double space your text, including footnotes and references. ●
Title in bold, followed by author’s name and affiliation, also in bold. ●
APA style headings, see: http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2009/07/five­essential­tips­for­apa­style­headings.html ●
Do not indent new paragraphs but use a hard return and set full out to left. ●
Don’t split words at line endings. Spelling and Style ●
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Full caps for acronyms, e.g. NATO, USA, TV. ●
Always capitalize initials of key words in English­language titles of books (titles are italicised), also in the reference list. ●
Full points in abbreviations (i.e., e.g., etc., no., et al ., …). ●
Contractions ending with the same letter as the original word do not take a full stop (Mr, Mrs, Dr, eds, edn, vols). ●
For dates: use Monday 28 January 2013; 1990s (not ‘90s or 1990’s); in the twentieth century (no hyphen), twentieth­century literature (hyphen). ●
Use lower­case ‘t’ before names of associations, companies and other bodies but for newspapers and periodicals, follow the use of ‘the’ in the title ( The Guardian ). ●
Show ellipses by three evenly spaced dots on the same line, preceded by a character space and followed by a character space or by a closing quotation mark or closing parenthesis. Avoid following ellipses with a full stop or a comma. ●
Emphasis should be achieved by the phrasing and grammar. It should not be necessary to use italics or bold to show emphasis. ●
Unspaced en rules are used between dates (13­14 April) and wherever the dash can be interpreted as ‘to’, spaced en rules are used for parenthetical dashes. ●
Italics should be used for foreign words except when part of a foreign­language quotation or when the word has been assimilated into the English language. Italics should also be used for titles of newspapers, journals, plays, books, films, works of art, names of ships, but not for the names of institutions or associations. ●
Numbers: in ranges of numbers please omit any digits that are not necessary to understanding: 100­9, 105­6, 111­13, 123­4, … (except in bibliography). Spell out words up to but not including 100. Write 6,000 not 6 000. References ●
DiGeSt uses the APA Style, 6th edition, see www.apastyle.org and http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/ In­text References ●
Use ampersand in references to two authors, followed by a comma, the year of publication, and the page with a space between 'p.' and the number (author 1 & author 2, year, p. 5) ●
For sources by 3 to 6 authors, cite all authors the first time. Use an ampersand (&) before the name of the last author. For every next reference use only the first author followed by ‘et al.’. ●
Refer to all sources in the main body of the text before full stops and commas, not after, e.g. (Scott, 1986), or (Scott, 1986, p. 1053). Quotes ●
All quotations of more than 40 words, numbered lists, verse extracts of one or more lines, small tables in the text should be displayed as extracts, without quotation marks. ●
For all quotations of less than 40 words: ●
­ use double quotation marks and single for quotes within quotes. ●
­ introduce quotation marks before full stops (".) and commas (",), not after. ●
­ be consistent in the use of curly or straight quotation marks. Reference List ●
Use an alphabetical list of ‘References’ (centred) at the end of the essay to incorporate all sources. Use endnotes for additional information only. ●
References in alphabetical order on first author. ●
Publications of same author are sorted by date (from old to recent). ●
Publications of the same author by the same date, are assigned a small letter (a, b). Publications will be sorted alphabetically by the first letter of the title ( First words of title being A or THE are excluded). ●
The entire list, both within and between entries, must be double­spaced. ●
For all other references the editors advise to consult the APA manual. Examples ●
Full reference to book 1 author: Ahmed, S. (2011). On being included: Racism and diversity in institutional life. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2 authors: Schielke, S. & Debevec, L. (2012). Ordinary lives and grand schemes. An anthropology of everyday religion. New York, NY: Berghahn Books. 3 authors: Helfer, M. E., Keme, R. S. & Drugman, R. D. (1997). The battered child . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 4 authors: Capéau, B., Eeman, L., Groenez, S., & M. Lamberts (2011). Wie heeft voorrang: jonge Turken of prille grijsaards? Een experimenteel onderzoek naar discriminatie op basis van persoonskenmerken bij de eerste selectie van sollicitanten. Leuven: HIVA. ●
Full reference to journal article Carbin, M., & Edenheim, S. (2013). The intersectional turn in feminist theory: A dream of a common language? European Journal of Women's Studies, 20 (3) , 233­248. ●
Full reference to chapter or article in edited book Fadil, N. (2010). Breaking the taboo of multiculturalism. The Belgian left and Islam. In A. Vakil & S. Sayyid (Eds.), Thinking Through Islamophobia. Global Perspectives (pp.235­250). New York, NY: Columbia University Press. ●
Full reference to newspaper article Schultz, S. (28 december 2005). Calls made to strengthen state energy policies. The Country Today , pp. 1A­2A. ●
Full reference to an article in an online journal Kenneth, I. A. (2000). A Buddhist response to the nature of human rights. Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 8 . Retrieved from http://www.cac.psu.edu/jbe/twocont.html. Simon, S. L., Field, J., Miller, L. E., DiFrancesco, M., & Beebe, D. W. (2015). Sweet/dessert foods are more appealing to adolescents after sleep restriction. PLoS ONE, 10 , 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115434 ●
Full reference to a website Cain, K. (2012, June 29). The negative effects of Facebook on communication. Social Media Today RSS . Retrieved from http://socialmediatoday.com ●
Full reference to a blog Baird, L. R. (2009, July 3). Meeting at ALA's DLS discussion group [Web log post]. Retrieved from http://www.cmu.edu/ocls/2010/6/meeting_at_alas.php ●
Full reference to other non­print media Terrell, W. (Producer). (2003). The mind. [Television series]. New York: WDBJ. Copyright ●
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