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"Research" and "literature" are a mass nouns (i.e., it's like water; it's not countable). "Studies", "Papers", "Publications", and "Researchers" are all countable nouns. The choice of adjective depen …

General points: APA style is principally designed for submitting manuscripts to academic journals. When it is used as a style guide for student assessments at universities, it is common for the requ …

However, in the context of psychology I am familiar with the two broad approaches you mention to writing an introduction. …

My preference where the journal allows is to avoid making references to page and line numbers. It's a time consuming process and can generally be avoided. If the change is really simple (e.g., fixin …

If following APA style you should not use quotation marks or italics for names of organisations. You could use an in-line list to make it clear. To apply this to your example: There are two majo …

My main tip would be to use a reference manager that automates the task of formatting references. There are many to choose from. But any good tool should make it fairly trivial to move between author- …

In general a good strategy is to find some similar articles to that which you are writing and carefully deconstruct these. How are aims presented? How is the research motivated? …

Coming from a psychology perspective, I have seen eminent authors adopt both writing approaches. Introductions to journal articles should generally have an opening. … I have found article deconstruction to be a useful tool to develop ideas about writing structure. …

I wrote a post on writing literature reviews in psychology. Here's my advice: Cited In: Good literature reviews do not use "Cited in". …

The general rule in APA 6 is that if the journal is paginated by year, then you exclude issue number and just report volume number. From my experience, just about all journals in psychology are pagina …

Based on the updated question, I'm more inclined to think that the reviewer is asking you to adopt a certain style to the actual references. I think you need to find out what that is. Perhaps some asp …

Ideally, such a resources would be available online so I could just give them a link or two to some writing style and grammar materials with exercises. … What is a good resource (preferably online) for teaching English speaking university students how to improve their writing style? …