Historians

The historians discover as they pore over their data commits them to one kind of organization over another. Organization can be a function of the source’s chronology, as is the case in a biography; or it may be both chronological and conceptual, with the topics that emerged later in time also appearing later in the book; or it could be largely topical. Once the organization is in place and writing begun, the social science researcher must confront issues of documentation. Reading researchers are comfortable and familiar with the American Psychological Association (APA) style, but in the writing of history, APA has several disadvantages. Although it does reference quotations, it does not cite page numbers for paraphrased sources, referring instead to the entire book In these cases are in reader.