# APA Style: A Minor Complaint

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apa-style-a-minor-complaint/203384>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 23, 2003, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apa-style-a-minor-complaint/203384 "2003-09-23T19:43:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apa-style-a-minor-complaint/203384/1 "2003-09-23T19:43:30Z")

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When it’s taking you longer to figure out how to format your references than it did for you to write the whole paper…you’re using APA style.

Yea, I shouldn’t be posting…bite me. Back to work!

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**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apa-style-a-minor-complaint/203384/2 "2003-09-23T19:56:32Z")

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Eh. APA is overrated. I’m a big fan of Chicago style, personally.

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**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apa-style-a-minor-complaint/203384/3 "2003-09-23T20:01:02Z")

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**APA** …

**Austin Party Area?** Naw, doesn’t fit the context.  
**Austin Powers’ Aura?** No better than above … 🆒  
**American Paper Association?** Better …  
**Autistic Peeved Amateur?** Now that one I like 😉

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**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apa-style-a-minor-complaint/203384/4 "2003-09-23T20:47:47Z")

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Well… it wasn’t so bad back in my day when there were really only about three different kinds of references. This is the price you pay for having the internet, etc.

(It’s **American Psychological Association** )

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**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apa-style-a-minor-complaint/203384/5 "2003-09-24T03:54:37Z")

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Gah, I have to learn APA since I’ve started school as a social work student. There’s a workshop on it, maybe I should actually go? I hate citations, bleh.

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**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apa-style-a-minor-complaint/203384/6 "2003-09-24T05:51:29Z")

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Yea, go. I have the APA manual and kept flipping back and forth going “Huh?” The sad thing was, I had two papers to write today, one in APA and one in MLA. Ye gods, the kind of mental contortions I had to go through…