Welcome to the Editarians Blog
The Inkpot is our forum for dipping into the expertise we have amassed over the years and sharing it with you, our readers. We want to inform, elucidate, educate—and perhaps inspire—you on the nuances of academic writing (and everyday writing, too!). Plus, we have a ton of hacks and tips that can make the process much quicker and easier.
Writers tend to stumble in the same places. We’re here to remove roadblocks and make molehills of your mountains.
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Introducing the Editarians Blog
With this blog, we hope to provide insight and motivation to help you write your papers more easily, more accurately, and more confidently. In addition, we’ll share tips on everything from creating a system for collecting references, to overcoming procrastination, to remembering grammar rules.
Should I have blue and underlined hyperlinks in APA Style reference list entries?
You’re pasting a DOI or URL into a reference list entry, and as soon as you hit the enter key, the text you’ve written turns blue and gets underlined. Your program has turned it into a hyperlink . . .but is that how it should appear in your submitted copy? And should...
How to Add Page Numbers in APA Style
Are you curious to learn how to add page numbers in APA Style? Whether you are writing to meet APA 6 or APA 7, we've got you covered! Page numbering in APA 6 and APA 7 In APA Style, page numbering is (usually) straightforward: The first page is numbered page 1. Each...
Five Strategies to Find Motivation to Write
Let’s face it: writing is hard. The bigger the project, the more onerous it can feel to get our butt in the chair and write that research paper or book manuscript. Motivation lags, momentum slows, and we start to wonder why we even chose this dratted topic in...
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If you’re like most of our clients, you’ve got a big year ahead of you. You’re completing (or contemplating) a degree program, you’re writing a book, or you’ve got grand plans to crank out articles for publication. If that sounds like you, let us amaze you with...
How to Format Pages in APA Style
In this post we cover APA 6 and 7 guidelines for margins, page size, and page orientation. That's right: setting up the page correctly has not changed with the release of the 7th edition of the Publication Manual. We then cover in detail how to set up APA page...
How to Insert a Running Head in APA Style
In this blog post we examine running heads in APA Style. We cover what purpose a running head serves, do’s and don’ts to follow, how to format a running head for an APA paper, and how to count characters to ensure the running head is within the character limit.
