Can APA style be adopted for numerical citing? Are there any legal hindrances?

Archosaurus_rossicus · July 30, 2020

Can APA style be adopted for numerical citing? It's alphabetical originally. Should the number of the year be placed in another position in such a case? If a media transforms a popular style, is it ok in terms of the laws?

bwiernik · July 30, 2020

Here is a numeric version of APA style: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bwiernik/zotero-tools/master/apa-numeric.csl

I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is there is nothing copyrightable about formatting your citations in a certain way. What is copyrightable is the actual text of a publication manual.

Archosaurus_rossicus · July 30, 2020

Thanks a lot!