Academic Writing Style Guides
Last week you learned about formatting long academic documents. Academic writing often comes with certain guidelines to follow so that there is consistency within a discipline. For example, you have already learned how to add an image attribution, how to cite a reference to a journal in text, and how to create a reference list using the APA 7th Referencing Style Guide. These guidelines provide a structure that once followed ensures conformity, making it easier to focus on the content and ideas in the document.
The organisations that create the referencing style guides, often also create style guides for academic writing. For example, APA has developed a Student Paper Setup Guide to align with the APA 7th edition Referencing Style Guide. These guidelines explain how to reference, title, and caption (title) a table or figure.
https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/student-paper-setup-guide.pdf
There are many organisations that have developed their own referencing and writing guidelines, that you may encounter in your studies. To keep things simple, we will focus mostly on the APA Writing Style Guide.
https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/paper-format
Most universities will have their own adaptation of writing styles, so always check with your lecturer about how they expect assignments to be formatted. To help you get started with the basics, watch the video below which summarises how to reference an image and include captions: