APA

[Vle045]

I'm still miffed at the APA for getting rid of the double-tap after a period.  Seriously, who doesn't send one to the chest and one to the head?  Joking aside, I don't get too hung up on formatting, I just download the templates for Word and they seem to do a good enough job to get me through everything I've had to write so far.  At least it's worked through my BS and MS degrees, I'll see if I can still get away with it at the doctorate level.

The double space after a period goes back to the day of the typewriter. It went away decades ago because of the way kerning is with fonts on computers. That wasn't just an APA thing. I had to do it in MLA back in high school...wont' say how many decades ago that was. It was universal. 

https://slate.com/technology/2011/01/two...do-it.html

This one's funny because it points to our age. 

https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/two-spaces-after-period/

Good lord.  “Decades” can mean 2000…. Which seems like 5 minutes ago. I went to school in the 90’s. Been working for over 20 years.  I have NEVER heard of single spacing between sentences until I started with all this school stuff.  If it ever really matters, I’ll just use find/replace to change all my double spaces. This old dog ain’t learning any new typing tricks.