October 27, 2009
Hot Type: Psychological Association Offers to Replace Error-Ridden Copies of Style Guide
Hell hath no fury like a style-guide user scorned. When the American Psychological Association published the sixth edition of its Publication Manual, in July, it didn't take long for APA style mavens to pick up on errors and inconsistencies—and to start complaining on e-mail lists and blogs.
The objections became so loud that the organization has now agreed to replace the offending copies with a corrected second printing (Edition 6.1, perhaps?).
The APA's
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