Style of the American Psychological Association (APA Style): practical experience in preparing methodical recommendations

Abstract

The article is devoted to the disclosure of practical experience in compiling methodological recommendations "Style of the American Psychological Association", prepared by the Scientific Library for scientists, teachers, graduate students and students of the National Pedagogical Dragomanov University who want to design their research papers. A comparative analysis of APA Style with DSTU GOST 7.1:2006 "Bibliographic record. Bibliographic description. General requirements and rules of compilation" and DSTU 8302:2015 "Information and documentation. Bibliographic link. General requirements and rules of assembly". APA Styleis an independent style of design of scientific publications, created for use in the English-speaking scientific environment, elements of which (bibliographic description, citations, references) since 2017 began to be actively implemented in the design of scientific papers. Accordingly, he has his own rules for compiling bibliographic descriptions, citations and references, and compiling a list of references. Comparison of elements of bibliographic description of APA Style and zones and their elements of bibliographic record of DSTU GOST 7.1:2006 allows to reveal their structural similarity which differs in an arrangement of these elements. Comparison of elements of bibliographic description of APA Styleand zones and elements of DSTU GOST 7.1:2006 allows to create an unmistakable Cyrillic (Ukrainian) version of bibliographic record according to this style. The design of citations and references in the text of scientific work is almost no different from the generally accepted in Ukrainian science. The only difference is their design in the text. The list of used literature in APA Styleis compiled exclusively in alphabetical order, and has a specific name — "List of references". The problem of including in the list of literature written in Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese or Indian font was solved through transliteration into Latin.