Last updated 4/21/2016
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Always appear in parentheses…
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Audio: Latin abbreviations—so you may use these commonly in your own writing, and you probably have seen them in the scholarly articles you’ve been reading: so—i.e., e.g., etc., vs.—all of those. You actually, in APA scholarly writing, you would only include those Latin abbreviations in parentheses. So, you wouldn’t want to put in the main text of your article, i.e., comma, and give an example. If it’s in the main text, the running text, something that’s not in parentheses, you would want to spell everything out. And because we don’t speak Latin, we would want to spell out the English equivalent. So instead of i.e., if I’m writing in the main narrative text of my sentence, I would say, that is. Or instead of e.g., I would say, for example, and so on and so forth. The only time that you would not spell out versus is if you’re citing something like a court case. But other than that, instead of saying v, s, period, you would want to spell out versus altogether. And a lot of this information about abbreviations, including Latin abbreviations and their English corresponding phrases, appear on pages 106 through 111, APA manual.
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