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From: Denis J Navas <denis.na...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: APA6 class with LyX?
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From: Uwe Stöhr
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To: obregonma...@gmail.com
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Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 7:34:36 PM
Subject: Re: APA6 class with
LyX?
Am 11.12.2012 01:14, schrieb obregonma...@gmail.com:
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Each APA-type journal has its own list of document types that it accepts; these
journals are only guided by the APA _style_ conventions. All journals in
psychology etc. that I have come across accept tex manuscripts, as long as the
tex file contains everything the authors use (i.e., macros) and do not rely on
any special latex compiling instructions.
Thanks for the clarification.
So a layout for APA 6 is indeed useful. However, I won't have time
to write it and hope that anybody else can volunteer. if you like, I can review
the layout.
thanks and regards
Uwe
Hi Uwe,
That would be
great. I am not sure that I have enough knowledge to help but I certainly would
consider it.
One of the reasons I first asked about this was not so much
about direct submission for publication though that is very important--the APA
5th Manual says that over a 1000 non-APA journals use the Manual but because
every psychology student in North America and from what I see, in at least most
of the English-speaking psychological world uses it in preparing papers plus
French speaking students in Québec. There are suggestions here and there that
the style is used in several (many?) other languages . This also seems to
extend to Education, Nursing and a host of other social science
disciplines that I am not familiar with.
Essentially a paper for these
students must conform pretty much exactly to the equivalent of
\documentclass[man,12pt]{apa6}. I don't know know if there is a
hard-science or math equivalent: Perhaps all undergraduate math student
assignments need to match AMA formatting guidelines?
At a
rough guess, students in my city with a community college, one small and one
medium sized unviersty probably submit 5,000 APA formatted papers each year.
Also, as others have mentioned, with a bit of minor tweaking APA sets the style
for theses or disertations in a broad range of disciplines. Come to think
of it, other disciplinces with less stringent stylistic demands may well be
very
happy with \documentclass[doc,12pt]{apa6}.
So my thought was let's catch
them while they are young. From my own experience and talking to some current
students using APA can be a real hassle and a decent apa6 option in LyX would
likely be a real crowd pleaser, especially once they learned about bibtex.
Universities here in Nicaragua, use APA style for thesis.
Denis J Navas
Thanks.
I think I may start some kind of list about who used APA style around the
world. Unfortunately I only sead Englsih and French so tracking down uses in
other languages may be a problem.
