Editing APA style (section)

=== Errors in the first printing of the 6th edition ===
Sample papers in the first printing of the sixth edition contained errors. APA staff posted all of the corrections online for free in a single document on October 1, 2009, and shortly thereafter alerted users to the existence of the corrections in an APA blog entry.<ref name=Skutley>{{cite web |first=Mary Lynn |last=Skutley |url= http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2009/10/note-to-apa-style-community-sixth-edition-corrections.html |title=Note to APA Style Community: Sixth Edition Corrections |work=APA blog |date=October 8, 2009}}</ref> These errors attracted significant attention from the scholarly community and nearly two weeks later, on October 13, 2009, the article "Correcting a Style Guide" was published in the online newspaper ''[[Inside Higher Ed]]'' that included interviews with several individuals, one of whom described the errors as "[[wikt:egregious|egregious]]".<ref name=Epstein>{{cite journal |last=Epstein |first=Jennifer |date=October 13, 2009 |title=Correcting a Style Guide |journal=[[Inside Higher Ed]] |location=Washington, DC |editor1-first=Scott |editor1-last=Jaschik |editor2-first=Doug |editor2-last=Lederman |access-date=October 27, 2011 |url= https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/10/13/correcting-style-guide}}</ref> All copies of the printing with errors were soon after recalled in 2009 (including those from major retailers such as Amazon.com) and a new printing correcting all the errors, with a copyright date of 2010,<ref>{{Cite web |url= https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=22124&recCount=25&recPointer=5&bibId=15659056 |title=Publication manual of the American Psychological Association |website=LC Catalog |date=2010 |publisher=American Psychological Association |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606164531/https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=22124&recPointer=5&recCount=25&bibId=15659056 |archive-date= Jun 6, 2023 }}</ref> was issued.