Concise Rules of APA Style (Concise Rules of the American Psychological Association (APA) Style) [Spiral-bound]

American Psychological Association (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2005 | ISBN-10: 1591472520 | ISBN-13: 978-1591472520 | Edition: Edition Unstated

The Concise Rules of APA Style will NOT be a replacement book for the Publication Manual, 5e. Rather, it will be a "true" companion product. Concise Rules will be an easy, look-up reference guide for writers and students that use the Publication Manual, 5e. It will be smaller in size and not include a lot of the information that is found in our top selling, Publication Manual, 5e product. The Concise Rules of APA Style will solely focus on the rules of APA Style. Students and writers will want to have both titles available on their shelf for understanding the rules to APA Style and writing effectively.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 212 pages
• Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA); Edition Unstated edition (January 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591472520
• ISBN-13: 978-1591472520
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 4.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #148,613 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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103 of 106 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Incomplete, October 10, 2005

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Christopher D. Applegate (MI, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Concise Rules of APA Style (Concise Rules of the American Psychological Association (APA) Style) (Spiral-bound)

There's no rules for title pages, no examples of manuscript pages, no rules for pagination. It doesn't even tell you if the reference list belongs on a separate page or what its heading looks like. I consider these glaring omissions, particularly if you are expected to use pure APA and have no departmental style guide (like me). This book is basically a glorified guide to citation and syntactic rules. Avoid it and pay the extra five bucks for the complete book. Getting the cheap book as some kind of protest won't signficantly hurt the APA and it will just make things harder for you.

46 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good book, lacking in visual references, October 3, 2005

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S. Thomas (Westminster, MD, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Concise Rules of APA Style (Concise Rules of the American Psychological Association (APA) Style) (Spiral-bound)

While this is a great condensation of the main rules needed to write in APA style, this book lacks one major thing -- the practical examples of how to apply APA style in a document or manuscript.

The book would be greatly enhanced if in future editions the editors added the examples that are found in the full APA guidelines handbook.

45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a supplement, not a primary resource, August 30, 2006

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Zoey McWilliamson (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Concise Rules of APA Style (Concise Rules of the American Psychological Association (APA) Style) (Spiral-bound)

Hopefully this statement will help those of you who are trying to decide what to buy: If you do not own a full copy of the APA Publication Manual, then do not buy this book. This book is meant to be a pocket-sized reference guide that you can carry with you. It is meant as a supplement, but it is not the primary resource -- the APA Publication Manual is the primary resource.

Now that I have gotten that out of the way, here is my review: This book may have omitted a few things that I would have preferred they left in (you won't know what you need until you need it). But by and large they did a good job of condensing a large book into a pocket guide.