I have a paper where I'm citing two different works (each by one author). I know APA requires the format (Author name, year, p. #). I'm wondering if I have to do this in EVERY in-text citation, or if I can do something like (Ibid p. #) after the first time I do the full citation. I do cite these guys a lot, and it gets tiring to keep having to read the long citations!
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There is no mention of ibid in the APA manual. In fact, its rule for repeating the same article (on page 208) states that to avoid repeating the author/date combo in the same paragraph that one should simply repeat the author’s name without the year. So their suggestion is …..”Walker also found…..”. Then as soon as you mention that study in another paragraph you have to go back to the (Walker, 2000) format. They must know that ibid exists, yet refuse to mention it, so that is discouraging for a user of ibid.
Ibid is not in their list of approved latin abbreviations (p.106). Maybe modern psychologists are not big users of latin. Footnotes are not really used for citations in APA, only for explanatory text. In other words, very little. So there is little need for brevity there.
Also, doesn't ibid mean "location" so it might be technically incorrect to replace the author/year with ibid. It would be more suitable when refering to the source/journal name? Just a thought, that might be why it is not discussed in this particular referencing style.
That said, they do publish plenty of articles in their journals where authors have used the term ibid (eg. in the abstract, just do a search on the apa.org site), they have not made them change the format. Maybe this will be explained in the next edition. . This one is for marking Interesting!
Best,
RH
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