New Features in APA Style CENTRAL®’s Writing Center – Citing Within Paper Elements

Posted on March 28, 2018January 4, 2019 by Marta Soto in For Faculty, For Librarians, For Students

APA Style CENTRAL recently added and updated tools to help with your research and writing in APA Style. See our previous blog post for details about spell-check and appendices.

You can now cite references in abstracts, figure captions, table bodies, and table captions, in the same way you cite references in the body of the paper.

Why cite within these parts of the paper?

If your research is a reply or follow-up to previously published work, you’d usually cite that work in the abstract.

If your figure summarizes data from another published work, you’ll want to credit that researcher in the figure caption

If you’re doing a literature review or meta-analysis and want to summarize the results of several previous studies in a table, you’ll want to cite those studies in the table body.
If your table includes results you found using a concept or a survey developed by another researcher, you’ll want to credit them in your table caption.

To cite within a paper element, you can create a new reference, search for a reference in PsycINFO, or choose from My References.

Once the in-text citation is created, the reference is added to the Paper Reference List and marked as cited.

You can read the full list of platform updates on APA Style CENTRAL’s training and support page.

APA Style CENTRAL Handout: Adding References to Papers

Tutorial: Inserting References

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New in PsycBOOKS: Jan – March 2018

Posted on March 27, 2018December 12, 2019 by Marta Soto in For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians

In January, APA added 3 new APA titles to PsycBOOKS^®

^{Assessment Using the MMPI-2-RF, ©2018, by David M. McCord. ISBN: 9781433828072}
Creating Healing School Communities, ©2018, by Catherine DeCarlo Santiago Raviv, Tali Raviv, and Lisa H. Jacox. ISBN: 9781433828621
Microaggressions and Traumatic Stress, ©2018, by Kevin L. Nadal. ISBN: 9781433828591

In February, APA added 5 new titles to PsycBOOKS^®, including a 2-volume handbook.

Unifying Effective Psychotherapies, ©2018, by J. Scott Fraser. ISBN: 9781433828676
Modern Parliamentary Procedure, ©2018, by Ray E. Keesey. ISBN: 9781433828652
Gender Typing of Children’s Toys, ©2018, edited by Erica S. Weisgram and Lisa M. Dinella. ISBN: 9781433828867
Assessment Using the Rorschach Inkblot Test, ©2018, by James P. Choca and Edward D. Rossini. ISBN: 9781433828812
APA Handbook of Psychopathology, Volumes 1 & 2, ©2018, edited by James N. Butcher. ISBN: 9781433828348 ; 9781433828355

In March, APA added 4 new titles to PsycBOOKS^®

Concussion, ©2018, by Anthony P. Kontos, and Michael W. Collins. ISBN: 9781433828232
Forensic Geropsychology, ©2018, by Shane S. Bush, and Andrew L. Heck. ISBN: 9781433828928
Heroic Humility, ©2018, by Everett L. Worthington Jr., and Scott T. Allison. ISBN: 9781433828140
Meaning in Life, ©2018, by Clara E. Hill. ISBN: 9781433828874

Bibliographic records are available through your PsycBOOKS vendor. You may also download RDA records directly from APA by following the instructions in the APA PsycNET® Administrator Help Menu.

View the past monthly PsycBOOKS update lists, a list of sample PsycBOOKS titles, and the full coverage list for PsycBOOKS.

Redesigned APA Style CENTRAL Training & Support Home Page

Posted on March 22, 2018March 22, 2018 by Patti Avellanet in For Faculty, For Librarians, For Students

The APA Style CENTRAL® Training & Support Home page has been redesigned to help you access our training materials more quickly and easily.

We offer support in a variety of formats designed to help students, instructors, librarians, and administrators:

The Training page includes links for attending live webinars, viewing webinar recordings, and requesting a custom training session for your institution.
The Help page includes links to brief video tutorials, and PDF’s of user handouts and administrator guides grouped by context:
The Platform Updates page outlines the enhancements and updates in each platform release since launch.

You can also subscribe to the APA Style CENTRAL email list (announcements only), and view the contact information for the APA Style CENTRAL Support team.

The right navigation rail enables quick access to all of these links within the APA Style CENTRAL support site in the “Training & Support” section. There is also an “APA Style® Information” section for easy access to additional APA Style resources.

Bookmark or link to the APA Style CENTRAL Training & Support home page in library websites, LibGuides, your course management system, or any other location where students, faculty, and researchers will find it.

If you have any questions about using APA Style CENTRAL, please email us or call (1-800-374-2722; TDD/TTY: 202-336-6123) — we’re here to help you!

New Features in APA Style CENTRAL®’s Writing Center – Spell-Check and Appendices

Posted on March 21, 2018January 4, 2019 by Marta Soto in For Faculty, For Librarians, For Students

APA Style CENTRAL recently added and updated tools to help with your research and writing in APA Style, including improved spell-check and a new location for appendices.

Spell-Check

You can Run Spell-Check Tool at any time to open a window where you choose to “ignore” or “change” words.

You can now also Check As I Write, which will underline misspelled words in red as you work.
Suggested words are provided if you click any underlined word. The spell-check includes words from the APA Dictionary of Psychology and surnames of famous psychologists, so these words will not be flagged as misspelled.

Appendices

Appendices are now managed in a tab below the body of the paper. You can create an appendix, or call it out in the body, in the same way you would a reference, table, or figure.

Please note: Any appendices created in a paper’s body before February 2018 will be moved automatically to the Call Out Appendices tab.

You can read the full list of platform updates on APA Style CENTRAL’s training and support page.

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Apply by 3/31 for the APA Librarian Conference Travel Award

Posted on March 15, 2018February 19, 2020 by Patti Avellanet in For Librarians

There’s still time to get your application package together!

Do you work in an academic or health sciences library in the United States? Are you an early- or mid-career librarian? Are you looking for sources of funding for a conference you’d like to attend this spring?

If the answer to all of those questions is yes, please consider applying for an APA Librarian Conference Travel Award! Through March 31, 2018, we are accepting applications for conferences taking place from May to August 2018. This includes – but is not limited to – LOEX 2018, the Medical Library Association Conference 2018, ALA Annual 2018, the ACRL Immersion Program and Teacher Tracks, and the APA Annual Convention.

The award is intended to help defray conference-related expenses for librarians with less than 15 years of experience after receiving their MLS/MLIS. Three cash awards are distributed three times each calendar year, and the application cycle opens and closes on a rolling basis. At this time, we are not limiting the conferences that are eligible for travel award funding. Applicants should identify the conference that best meets their professional needs, and explain how attendance will support their current duties and future goals.

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