optional entry after keywords

[cgbeevers]

This is a great package! Thank you! I wondered whether it would be possible to add an optional entry for "public health significance statement" or "general scientific summaries" that are often required for submission to APA journals (e.g., JCCP, J of Abnormal). These statements typically involve 2-3 sentences and are located after keywords on the abstract page. Apologies if this option is already there and I couldn't find it. Thanks.

[dan-weiss]

Sounds like a good idea. I don't see an details about this in the APA 7th edition style guide. Do you have any details about how it should be formatted in each of the three modes (jou,man,doc)? Maybe from the journal publishers? Let me know and I will try to add the feature.

[cgbeevers]

In the manuscript format, it would be a new paragraph under the abstract and before the keywords. The journals that require these statements aren't very specific about formatting but I think it would be much like the keywords entry: title of the statement followed by a colon in italics, then the 2-3 sentence statement.

In the journal format, it would be located immediately under the abstract. The title of the statement (e.g., "Public Health Significance Statement) would be bold, left justified and then the statement text would be the width of abstract and centered under the abstract and boxed. I tried to include a screenshot from a JCCP article to give you a sense of what it looks like in a journal:

In the doc format, I would place it below the abstract and follow the same format as the keywords.

Hope this is helpful.

[de-barros]

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Here is the APA's guidance on these statements.

Here is a psych journal that requires a similar "impact and implications statement".