Re: QUESTION: Reference List Indents in APA style

["Deborah A. Odell" <dodell@brain.uccs.edu>]

  I have a question re: this -- If a comparable situation is the MLA rule
to "underline or italicize titles" (?), which do you advise students to do
when they ask?  I've heard instructors give each response... 

Debby Odell

Director of Composition, English Dept.
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
email: dodell@mail.uccs,edu

On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Nick Carbone wrote:

> 
> Anne,
> 	Sounds like APA's making a distinction between manuscript style
> and typeset style.  An MLA version of this is on whether to underline
> titles or to put them in italics.  
> 	However, because computers can, in effect, set type, I don't see
> why the distinction is made.  I would guess that most teachers would
> accept the traditional hanging indent format since it is likely what
> they are used to seeing and used to using themselves. 
> 
> In the end, it would be hard to convert from one format to anohter.  If a
> writer uses standard paragraphing, but a teacher wants the hanging
> indents, they can highlight the entries and use the paragraph format
> command or the ruler to to make the switch. Likewise, they can reverse the
> process for a teacher who is into the letter of the manual.
> 	
> We haven't run into this as a question. We just tell students to use the
> hanging indent. If they ask, we would advise them to see what their
> teacher prefers.  If the writer is writing for a journal, however, and the
> journal says to follow APA guidelines, and guidelines say to submit
> manuscripts as you've described, then that's what we'd recommend--going
> ahead with standard paragraph indenting instead of hanging indents.
> 
> -- 
> Nick Carbone, Writing Center Director
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