purposelessnessismypurpose: purposelessnessismypurpose: Did you know? The reason citation in APA use
purposelessnessismypurpose: purposelessnessismypurpose: Did you know? The reason citation in APA use only initials and not full names is because some women ran an experiment. They submitted some articles they’d written to a journal and the articles were rejected. They changed nothing about the articles except the authors’ names, which they changed to male names, and resubmitted them. The articles were accepted. An anon very politely pointed out that I don’t have a citation for this. I heard it from a librarian who led a research workshop for one of my classes in grad school, but I can’t find a written source to confirm it. So, it might be true, but I can’t prove it. Approach with caution, I guess. -- source link