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The Origin of Publication Manual of American Psychological Association


Nataliya Denisova, Alla Efimova
(about the authors)

Denisova Nataliya Evgenevna – Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Candidate of Pedagogical Science (National Research University Higher School of Economics)

Efimova Alla Aleksandrovna – Senior Lecturer, Department of Foreign Languages (National Research University Higher School of Economics)

Published in:
Scholarly Communication Review
– Volume 4, Number 4 (July-August, 2014)



Keywords: academic style, APA, APA style, history of publications, library science, psychology, publishing standards, scientific community


Citation:
Nataliya Denisova, Alla Efimova (2014). The Origin of Publication Manual of American Psychological Association. Scholarly Communication Review, 4(4), 29-35. doi: 10.18334/np44141


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Abstract:

This article deals with the history of “Publication Manual of American Psychological Association” creation. The Manual appears to be the basic recommendatory source for academic writing in psychology and some social sciences using APA style in publication. There examined the impact of information overload and principle of industrial rationalization which determined the main approaches to creating of this Manual. 







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