What is Egraphy?

The Egraphy , Also written e-spelling, refers to the addresses of the web pages that are consulted at the time of carrying out a research work.

In this sense, the egraphy is part of the bibliographical references, because it provides information from the sources consulted.

The use of the term"egraphy"for information retrieved from electronic media is much more adequate than the one previously used:"bibliography".

From bibliography to egraphy

For lack of a more specific term, at the end of the investigations, used to collect any source (printed, audiovisual, online) under the name of"bibliography".

However, the word"bibliography"contains the prefix"biblio-", which means"book", so information retrieved from web pages should not be classified in this category.

In this way, the term egraphy arises, in which the prefix e refers to the quality of"electronic"information.

APA standards and egraphs

The American Psychological Association (APA) has established a set of rules for regulating the way in which egraphs are written, as well as the way in which information obtained from electronic sources is cited.

The APA rules contemplate three cases of appointments that are presented next.

Quotes of less than 40 words

When you want to quote a text of less than forty words, it is included in the paragraph that is being written and enclosed in quotation marks.

At the end of the appointment, the author's last name is placed in brackets, followed by a comma and the year in which the text was written.

For example:

Specialized languages ​​are the result of the diversification of activities within a society.

In this way, different specialty languages ​​are born that"... reflect the areas in which society has subdivided knowledge and experience for its own purposes..."(Sager, 2007).

The following information shall be provided in the chart:

Author (date). Title. Extracted the [full date] from [link].

The example for the previous example would be as follows:

Sager, Carlos (2007). The evolution of specialty languages ​​and terminology. Excerpted June 6, 2017, from https://books.google.co.ve.

Quotes greater than 40 words

To enter quotes of more than forty words, the quotation is entered in a separate paragraph.

The paragraph should have indentation of one centimeter on each side and simple line spacing.

For example:

According to Fedor, the terminology is:

(...) the science that studies the formation and use of terms, understanding under"term", any conventional symbol that is assigned to a concept defined within a specific field of human knowledge, and under"science", a body of Knowledge methodically formed and ordered (...).

Egraphy:

Fedor de Diego, Alicia (1995). Terminology: theory and practice. Extracted June 6, 2017, from https://books.google.com.

Images

To place the author of an image, the following format is used:

Author. Image Type: Map, photo, illustration. Name of the image. Retrieved from [link].

For example:

Bryan Talbot. Illustration. The Sandman: Destiny. Retrieved from https://www.vertigocomics.com/characters/the-sandman.

In case of not having the information of the image, only the link must be placed.

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