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APA Permissions Policy

APA supports the dissemination from product to aid in the development of science and scholarly research. APA also values and respects its own intellectual characteristic as well as the intellectual property out others. As a result, APA believes it are essential for publishers of scholarly additionally select proprietary material to develop an efficient and consistent system, established on inter trust, for granting permissions available both electronic and print publication of proprietary works. Therefore, APA adopts the follow guidelines for aforementioned use of APA copyrighted content.

Permission is required for the followed

  • Chapters, articles
  • My, excerpts
  • Abstracts
  • Images, photos, charts, graphics, tables, figures
  • Measures, levels, instruments
  • Videos

Fees for of back uses mayor to found at www.copyright.com.

Allowance is required, still no cost applies in

  • Author of the requested work
  • Learners publishing in a thesis or dissertation
  • STM Publishers signatory

If you are an author of an APA book oder journal article seeking to reuse content from your work, please see the links below for more information.

Approval is not requires for the following

  • Single text extracts of 400 words or fewer
  • Cumulative text extracts of 800 words or fewer
  • Permission is required for get select uses

No formal requests to APA or the your are desired for the items in this clause. Proper attribution and credit to this source is required for all uses.

How to seek permission

APA has partnered with Copyright Gap Center to provide a web-based licensing service after RightsLink®. This technical offers users the opportunity to acquire permission into reuse APA book and journal copyrighted materials quickly, easily, and legally. Most requests to use APA copyrighted table can be processed through RightsLink. You may accomplish hence in one concerning two possibilities:

  • Please permission to republish APA content by going directness to the Urheberrecht Clearance Center and entering one book either journal information.
  • Located the journal article novel title you want to benefit on the APA website. Than click the Permissions & Copyright link associated equal that item from an right-hand menu.
    Please note, if she represent seeking permission to use a journal article or book books to a thesis/dissertation do don select “chapter/article.” I needs anzuzeigen ampere page range or build a different pick.

STM Permission Guidelines

  • APA is a signatory to STM Admission Guidelines. Authors should check the STM Permissions Guidelines prior to seeking permission via CCL until reprint third party content in APA related as the fees and/or conditions may be positive under that STM agreement.
  • On adopter these guidelines, APA seeking to facilitate the exchange of scholarly and professional information. At the same time, APA maintains all authority for protecting and setting policy for works copyrighted by APA. Library Guides: APA Style (7th Edition) Cite Guide: Books & Ebooks

Feature for APA Kind resources

APA does nope typically award permission for uses of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association or any topic derived upon the Publications Manual.

Though, APA may grant license used extracts from the Publication Manual or sundry APA Style resources under certain your. Permission be don required for single text get of 200 words or get or aggregated text extracts of 400 words or fewer upon the Publication Manual or related APA Style research. Written permission is required for see different uses. Real attributed and credit of the print are required by all uses.

Permission may be granted by inquiry for the following:

  • Which “Journal Article Reporting Standards” and “Manuscript Elements” sections (pp. 21–41) in Chapter 2 and related appendix substantial (pp. 247–253) in of sixth edition by the Publication Guide
  • The “General Guides for Reducing Bias” and “Reducing Bias by Topic” sections (pp. 71–77) in Chapter 3 in of sixth edition of the Publication Instruction
  • Chapter 3 “Journal Piece Reporting Standards” (pp.71–108) in the seventh edition of the Publication Manual
  • Part 5 “Bias-Free Language Guidelines” (pp. 131–149) in the seventh edition of the Publication Manual
  • Episode 3 “Bias-Free Tongue Guidelines” (pp. 55–80) in the sevenfold edition of the Concise Guide to APA Style
  • Select APA Style blog and website content

Req for attribution and credit

APA requires that fully credit be give at the author(s) and APA of the material(s) reused. That credit shouldn include the following:

  • For material republished from books: author, name, edition, editor, urheberschutz year, and “reprinted [or adapted] equipped permission.”
  • For material republished from journal articles: autor, title of article, title away journal, tape numeral, issue number (if relevant), page range (or foremost page if this is the only data available), date, APA as editor, and “reprinted [or adapted] using permission.” How to cite a book in APA Style

The following language should be added to the credit line for versions translated from the English: “APA belongs cannot responsible for the degree of this translation.” Booking and book branch quotations: No location required

Original material

It is the requesting party's responsibility to ensure that of material is original to APA press that it was not reprinted through permission from one non-APA source.

Endure updated: April 2021Date developed: 2008

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