Can college students actually expend the time to watch these annoying and unprecise youtube tutorials? (Well, I only watch one now and then to be informed basically about the mediium. There may also be a few good tutorials. If so I missed them.)
If there is something like “the APA” in the sense of those propagating and maintaining the APA-style,
I feel sure the proper thing they should do is to create a perfect template as a .odt
file that everybody can use directly or import styles from.
An associated model based on that template may then contain the few rules needing to be explicitly regarded by the author and the relevant examples. A student writing his APA-styled essay derived from the “official” template can then at the same time have open the model, consult the rules, and find the examples where needed.
By the way:“the APA” might one day learn about timely paper sizes and abandon the internationally outdated stubborn US standards.