Authors are requested to pay particularly close attention to APA style in the preparation of figures, tables, and references. Authors are asked to provide information on chronological age rather than school grade in abstracts to ease international communication. Abbreviations throughout the text should be limited to those found in a standard English dictionary or those in common use in psychology. When in doubt, abbreviations should be avoided. After the abstract a list of between 6 and 8 key words that will be useful for indexing or searching should be included.
References follow different formats depending upon where they appear in the manuscript.
For example, co-authored sources are referred to by all authors names in the initial citation but are abbreviated with et al. Only articles that have been published or are in press should be included in the references. Unpublished results or personal communications should be cited as such in the text. When citing an Academic Press journal, authors may wish to include the digital object identifier, if noted, from the article's title page. Reinstatement versus reactivation effects on active memory in infants.