APA publication manual?

[marilynmom]

Another book question...

My school suggests we get this book:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1557987912/ref=pd_luc_14_lc_a3565x33_r4c2_a2_i/002-6160745-9313602?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

But is has bad reviews! Does anyone use this books? Any suggestions? What do you all use as a reference to write your APA papers?

Thanks,

Marilyn

[barbnyc]

I used the Hacker book for my undergraduate studies, which was user friendly. I bought the APA Manual for my Masters degree. I consistently used about 20 pages of the book (the book is several hundred pages). The same details of APA citing can easily be found at the Purdue website which someone else posted. The only "new" issues with APA citations include the proper way to cite electronic resources used as references. You can find everything you need on the internet. In the science community, they take the APA citation issue very seriously.

[mrscurtwkids4]

I bought a program called PERRLA.. best $25 I spent since being in my BSN program and having to write several papers!

http://www.perrla.com/Pages/1/2.aspx

I use the PERRLA also ad it's great!!! I never ever had to look in that manual again after getting this program. Would highly reccommend it!!

[gauge14iv, MSN, APRN, NP]

I used endnote - which was perfect for me and I loved! I am going to check out perrla though.

ETA: Perrla looks like a great formatting tool. Endnote is a database which does what perrla does but also downloads your refs from ebsco and other sources, allows you to keywioard search and store them etc. If you don't need to keep permanant files of your references and use them over (such as for going from a thesis to a dissertation) then perrla is probably fine. Endnote also does morificecript formats for publications other than APA so if you write for publication Endnote would be a better choice.

[marilynmom, LPN, NP]

I also hit a few websites on APA:

Purdue's site

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

and the APA Wizard

http://www.stylewizard.com/apa5/apawiz.html

Thanks, bookmarked them.

[suni, BSN, RN]

Hated the book, bought software for APA from referencepointsoftware.com

Never lost sleep or points after that.