oh for crying out loud!

[transposable_element]

APA style requires that citations of articles from journals that are continuously paginated (rather than paginated by issue) not include the issue number.

Seriously.

This is idiotic. Having the issue number in the citation doesn't harm anything and may in fact be useful. And checking each journal's pagination (which may have changed at some point since the cited article was published!) is a completely unnecessary piece of drudgery to inflict upon a researcher.

To judge by the comments here, I am not the only person to think so.

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[heliopausa]

But of course; if you haven't got a research assistant, then unnecessary drudgery must be added on. It's how people get shown the order of things in academia.