So you might say that the hanging indent is part of our DNA.ĪPA Style (like every other reference style) is less like a purpose-built machine and more like a set of family traditions. As you can see from the snapshot below, the references in that issue were not exactly formatted in the APA Style we know and love, but they do use a hanging indent. To answer that question, we need to set the dial on the Wayback Machine for 1894, when the first issue of Psychological Review (APA’s first journal) was published. For example, how did you decide on using a hanging indent for references? Does this improve the readability of the paragraph, compared with some other way of offsetting the information? Or is there some other advantage to the hanging indent, beyond readability? I’m curious about how certain things got to be that way in APA Style.
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