Ask OASIS APA Manual Quick Guide
| Topic | Subtopic | Section | Page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abbreviations | 172-178 | ||
| No apostrophe to make plural | 6.26 | 173 | |
| Overuse/underuse | 6.24 | 172 | |
| Common units of measurement | Table 6.4 | 175 | |
| Latin abbreviations | 6.29 | 176 | |
| Bias | 131-149 | ||
| Age | 5.3 | 135-136 | |
| Disability | 5.4 | 136-137 | |
| Gender | 5.5 | 138-141 | |
| Racial and ethnic identity | 5.7 | 142-145 | |
| Sexual orientation | 5.8 | 145-147 | |
| Socioeconomic status | 5.9 | 147-148 | |
| Intersectionality | 5.10 | 148-149 | |
| Capitalization | 165-169 | ||
| Proper nouns and trade names | 6.14 | 165-166 | |
| Diseases, disorders, therapies, theories, and related terms | 6.16 | 166 | |
| Titles of works and headings within works (title case and sentence case) | 6.17 | 167-168 | |
| Titles of tests and measures | 6.18 | 168 | |
| Nouns followed by numerals or letters | 6.19 | 168-169 | |
| Names or conditions of groups | 6.20 | 169 | |
| Names of factors, variables, effects | 6.21 | 169 | |
| Grammar & Punctuation | |||
| Verb tense | 4.12 | 117-118 | |
| Active and passive voice | 4.13 | 118 | |
| Subject-verb agreement | 4.15 | 119-120 | |
| Pronouns | 4.16-4.21 | 120-123 | |
| "Who" vs. "that" | 4.19 | 121-122 | |
| "That" vs. "which" | 4.21 | 122-123 | |
| Misplaced and dangling modifiers | 4.23 | 123-124 | |
| "While" vs. "although," "and," or "but" | 4.22 | 123 | |
| "Since" vs. "because" | 4.22 | 123 | |
| Parallel construction | 4.24 | 124-125 | |
| Spacing after punctuation marks | 6.1 | 154 | |
| Period | 6.2 | 154 | |
| Serial commas | 6.3 | 155 | |
| Comma to set off nonessential clause | 6.3 | 155 | |
| Comma to separate two independent clauses with conjunction | 6.3 | 155 | |
| Comma to set off year in exact dates | 6.3 | 155 | |
| Comma to set off year in parenthetical citations | 6.3 | 155 | |
| Comma to separate groups of three digits | 6.3 | 155 | |
| When not use a comma | 6.3 | 156 | |
| Semicolons | 6.4 | 156 | |
| Colons | 6.5 | 156-157 | |
| Dash | 6.6 | 157 | |
| Quotation marks | 6.7 | 157-159 | |
| Parentheses | 6.8 | 159-160 | |
| Square Brackets | 6.9 | 160 | |
| Slash | 6.10 | 160-161 |