![]() APA Style just made one of its simplest reference formats even simpler. emails to instructors, librarians, and (…probably not). Now, we can all put away the headache medicine and temporarily halt those 3:00 a.m. ![]() (For information on copyright and permission guidelines, please see Chapter 12 in the Publication Manual.) If there were, for example, five or more publishers associated with a work, a writer would feel compelled (similar to the go-to technique used by vampires on an off-the-air popular TV show that shall not be named because I don’t want any copyright infringement issues) to include all of their locations, resulting in a lot of overthinking and a behemoth of a reference. And don’t get me started on the problematic referencing of a book with more than one publisher in various locations. Multiple publisher locations in a book made it really difficult for writers to determine which, or all, locations should be included in a book or book chapter reference. But it was a real headache to open a book and see New York, NY Boston, MA Los Angeles, CA Madrid, Spain Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and Mississauga, Ontario, Canada as the publisher location options. Yes, while the tenure of publisher locations lasted, it was great for us to learn that “AK” is the abbreviation for Alaska and that “Vienna” is more than a sausage. ![]() That’s right, you heard (read) it here first (at least I hope you did): Publisher locations are no longer included in APA Style references for books and book chapters.
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