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| Every author is listed | |
| Use & (ampersand) between author names | |
| No author degrees are included | |
| Full article title listed including words after a colon, if there is one | |
| Full article listed including words after a colon, if there is one | |
| | All (main) words capped, including words after colon | |
| First word after colon capped, even if it’s a preposition | |
| Only the first word after the colon is capped | |
| Subheadings not listed in running heads or on main section pages | |
| | The numbers in the reference list are bold face | |
| If the reference list is only one column wide, there should be a line drawn between the references and the story text | |
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| ABBREVIATIONS, INITIALISMS | No periods with capital letter abbreviations (e.g., US, MD). | |
| AUTHORS | Every author should be listed on the main section pages. Use “&” to connect them when there is more than one name per item | |
| BOLD FACE | Numbering of reference lists should be bold-face (1., 2., 3.) | |
| CAPITALIZATIONS | Within the text:
Book and journal titles should be capitalized, including the first word after a colon (e.g., Dogs and Cats: The Blah Blah Blah) | |
| master’s (not Master’s) degree
western medicine
X-ray (not x-ray) | |
| Warning! Warning! – RefWorks doesn’t seem to capitalize any proper names in titles (e.g., india, china) ! | |
| COMMAS | Use serial commas! (x, y, and z; NOT x, y and z) | |
| HYPHENS (Refer to APA Style Guide, 2001, 5th ed., pp.89-94) | multidrug-resistant, multidrug-resistant X, multidrug resistance | |
| 16- and 17-year-old (space after the first hyphen, implying the presence of “year-old”) | |
| health care, caregiver | |
ITALICS
| Book and journal titles within text. (Article titles should be regular font and have quotation marks around them.) | |
| Foreign words not in common usage (e.g., favela, but not wok) | |
| et al. should not be italicized | |
| NUMBERS, PERCENTAGE, CENTURY | Spell out fractions (e.g., two-thirds) | |
| - In regular text, spell out numbers from one through nine and use numerals from 10 on
- In scientific text, use numbers for everything
- In a mixed paragraph, use numbers for everything (unless it’s the beginning of a sentence, in which case try to rewrite!)
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| 19th century, 20th century, just because I think it’s easier to read | |
| % after a number, “percentage” when after a word | |
| SINGULAR/PLURAL | Capital letters, characters that go along with numbers, etc. should have an apostrophe -- that makes them much easier to read.
For example, MD’s, 1950’s. (See Woe Is I, p.30) | |
| WORD FORMS | preventive (not prevent-a-tive)
toward, not towards | |
