Abstract
Having skimmed through recently published articles of Bahir Journal of Education (BJE), I inadvertently engrossed with a few imperfections that are incompatible with a currently in use publication manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) style. Notwithstanding strong efforts have been made to produce high-quality articles in terms of contents, methodological approaches and scientific credibility, the oversights of very technical details of specific APA style and formatting have been found. From professional points of views, these oversights might certainly affect the quality of the journal. The main objective of this paper is to uncover the frequent errors that overlooked within the articles since 2014, and thereby to conquer the errors using sixth edition publication manual of the APA and up-to-date manuscripts that are available at the http://apastyle.apa.org/. I presented a series of errors observed in seven randomly selected articles regarding the titles, abstracts, citations, methods, statistical presentations and lists of reference entries to take viable measures that tackle the errors virtually. Finally, based on the observed mismatches, I forwarded implications for the quick use of publication manual of APA that could support the authors, the reviewers and the examiners of the journal articles. Keywords : BJE; APA styles; publication manual; oversights; frequent errors DOI : 10.7176/IKM/9-2-01
Highlights
In the last six months, I was skimming through some articles of Bahir Journal of Education (BJE) that have published since 2014 for reference purposes in other articles
My specified lists of incompatible entries related to American Psychological Association (APA) style that may reduce the quality of the articles in particular and quality of the journal, in general, were addressed
As per the primary motive of writing this article is a critique of the current oversights of APA styles in BJE and to suggest instant solutions the observed errors were mentioned and suggestions were forwarded
Summary
In the last six months, I was skimming through some articles of BJE that have published since 2014 for reference purposes in other articles. Acknowledging all the endeavors made to suit the articles to the standards of APA, confronting several challenges such as shortage of resources supply that provide a piece of accurate and up-to-date information related to APA style, a few but important faults have been observed yet. BJE, as a peer-reviewed standardized journal of education, would publish highquality articles that could best meet all the basic criteria of up-to-date APA style. The frequent violation of the APA style within a given article can result in the rejection of the article even after the publication was issued (Onwuegbuzie, 2017). In order to save the rejection of one or more of the BJE articles, it is worthwhile to uncover frequently committed errors that observed within the articles of BJE to enable the authors, the reviewer, and the editors conquer the unnoticed errors in instant
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