APA 7th edi

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Hi, I have linked my citation to microsoft word, but I realise there were too many spaces inbetween my links, when i try to delete it and make it to a single line, it doesn't seem to work. Any idea how I can solve this?

Also my prof mentioned that my link shouldn't start in a new line, it should be connected with the previous sentence. I can't seem to format it that way as well. Any ideas?
  • damnation
    edited 3 days ago
    Assuming you're in Word.
    You can change the line spacing of the Word (!) formatting style directly. You will want to change the "Bibliography" style and change the spacing to single spacing under "paragraph".
    Basically what is shown here, but instead of changing the font, you'd change the line spacing.

    The issue that it's putting the URL into the next line I cannot reproduce. Can you try this in a fresh document with just a couple of citations and APA selected?
  • jgreeniaus
    For APA, it looks like it's fine if the link goes to the next line (this happens because it's technically treated like one big word by the word processor), but if you look at the example on APA style here:
    https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples/journal-article-references
    After point 3, you'll notice they start the long link on the following line as it doesn't fit at the end of the Reference, the Lipscomb, A. Y. (2021... example.

    The only places I don't see it starting a new line is when there are hyphens in the URL name and it makes a line break there. So based on what I know of APA, you are using it correctly in the image you showed. (it started a new line after musco- because of the hyphen).
  • bwiernik
    I would recommend replacing the ResearchGate URL with a more permanent link to the journal website or a DOI if applicable
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