APA Citation Help, 7th Edition for Medicine, Nursing, & Health Sciences

Style & Grammar

Links will take the reader to style information from the APA. 
  • Punctuation 
         Includes information about serial commas and spacing after a period. 
  • Spelling and Hyphenation
         Includes information on spelling principles, preferred spellings, and hyphenation principles. 
  • Capitalization
         Includes proper nouns, diseases, disorders, and therapies, title case capitalization, and sentence case capitalization. 
  • Numbers 
         Includes numbers expressed in words and numbers expressed in numerals. 
  • Italics and Quotation Marks
         Includes information about the use of both italics and quotation marks. 
  • Abbreviations
         Includes definition of abbreviations, group author abbreviations, and Latin abbreviations. 
  • Lists
         Includes lettered lists, numbered lists, and bulleted lists.    
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