I have reviewed many papers during the time period between March 2020 and the present. (And been very frustrated by slow, poor, and no reviews of my own submissions!) Most of the journals I do work for adhere to the APA/ American Psychological Association style of formatting and paper organization.
And this is not meant to be a post in praise of or expressing criticism of that particular style. Because it is widely-used in social and human sciences, it is the style I have most familiarity with - going back to the 5th edition. I will say I like some of the changes associated with the 7th edition, especially getting rid of the very confusing rule about how many authors to show in an in text citation. I have seen probably a dozen papers now where authors provide a summary of the entire paper as the opening of the paper. This is separate from, and follows the abstract, and basically looks to me like a summary of each section - a few sentences that summarize the intro/review of lit, a few sentences that summarize the methods, a summary of the findings (hence the title of this post) and a summary of the implications. The style in which this is presented often looks to me more like a philosophical or other humanities paper - "In this work, we illustrate....." So I went back to my APA guide to see if this is something new - is there some direction to add an extended summary over and above the abstract?
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AuthorI am Sheryl L. Chatfield, Ph.D, C.T.R.S. I am a member of the faculty in the College of Public Health at Kent State University. I also Co-coordinate the Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research and I am a member of the Design Innovation Team at Kent State. Archives
February 2024
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