Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1552-3934.2011.02081.x
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发表时间：
2011-06
影响因子：
0.7
通讯作者：
Rui Yao
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作者：
Rui Yao
与以前的版本类似，美国心理学协会（阿帕）出版手册，第六版为社会和行为科学专业的作家，编辑，学生和教育工作者提供了写作风格和格式的各个方面的指导方针。2006年，阿帕开始审查和评估各种文件，以探索出版标准的变化。在审查了五年的数据后，确定有必要在七个领域进行修订：“伦理、期刊文章报告标准、减少语言、图形、写作风格、参考文献和统计方面的偏见”（阿帕，2010年，第XV页）。成立了专家委员会，为阿帕特别工作组修订出版手册提供支持。2009年7月出版了《出版手册》的第一次印刷。尽管新版的出版手册比上一版少了近150页，但出版手册修订工作组已经创建了一个具有风格，格式和参考指南的手册，这些指南与当今作家使用的资源更相关。更新版包括讨论如何贷记电子源的新章节，强调定位器信息和数字对象标识符（DOI）。阿帕还提供了引用电子和印刷格式的新示例，以及如何引用软件，互联网资源，维基，播客，数据集和其他形式的新媒体的解释。此外，新增加的是关于荟萃分析的结构和内容的说明，以及各种检查表，以帮助作者保持适当的道德标准，创建标准表格和数字，并提交手稿。阿帕在出版手册中增加了新的章节，描述了报告期刊文章组成部分的标准，如摘要，方法，统计结果和讨论部分。它们还包括讨论确保研究人员保护参与者权利和福利的方法的新章节。这本书为维护参与者的机密性和减少描述参与者的语言偏见提供了更强的标准。例如，作者建议研究人员避免使用贬义语言，例如使用“少数民族”来指代“非白人”人群。
Similar to previous editions, the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), Sixth Edition provides guidelines on all aspects of writing style and formatting for writers, editors, students, and educators within the social and behavioral science professions. In 2006, APA began reviewing and evaluating various documents to explore the changes in publication criteria. After reviewing five years of data, it was determined that revisions were necessary in seven areas: “ethics, journal article reporting standards, reducing bias in language, graphics, writing style, references, and statistics” (APA, 2010, p. XV). Expert committees were established to provide support to the APA Task Force assigned to revising the Publication Manual. The first printing of the Publication Manual was released in July 2009. Even though the new edition of the Publication Manual is nearly 150 pages less than the previous edition, the Publication Manual Revision Task Force has created a manual with style, formatting, and referencing guidelines that are more relevant to resources used by today’s writers. The updated edition includes new sections that discuss how to credit electronic sources, emphasizing the locator information and the Digital Object Identifier (DOI). APA also provides new examples for referencing both electronic and print formats as well as explanations of how to reference software, internet sources, wikis, podcasts, data sets, and other forms of new media. Also new is the added instruction about the structure and content of meta-analyses as well as various checklists to help writers maintain appropriate standards in ethical compliance, create standard tables and figures, and submit manuscripts. APA added new sections within the Publication Manual that describe the criteria for reporting the components of journal articles such as the abstract, methods, statistical results, and discussion sections. They also included new sections discussing methods for ensuring that researchers protect the rights and welfare of participants. The book provides stronger standards for maintaining the participant confidentiality and for reducing bias in language describing participants. For example, the authors suggest that researchers avoid the use of derogatory language such as using “minority” for “non-white” populations.