To add to the discussion of spaces between the periods (which I am resisting calling full stops!), the Windows ellipsis character produced by Alt+0133 (find it in Character Map) appears to have less space than spaced periods, but a bit more than unspaced periods. Aagh, no, in the font on another comment form (replying to that snappish person) that was true, but in the font I’m seeing here, Alt+0133 gives an even narrower character than the unspaced three periods. Either way it seems Windows doesn’t think it needs spaces between the periods, but that doesn’t give any clue about spaces before and after.

Alt+0133: …
unspaced: …
spaced: . . .

Btw, I’ve always assumed the full stop, when you have that as well as the ellipsis, came after the ellipsis – at the *very* end of the sentence.

Well, anyway. I’m off to return to the fray!

To dot … or to space and dot . . .

My word processor recognizes … but when I use . . . it tells me I have typed something incorrectly.

I have been a typist for over 40 years and have always used the three dots without a space. Now the practicum under grad student who is trying to teach me APA in my policy class tells me that I need to put spaces between the dots. I believe I was taught that in typing and in English class either way was correct, as long as I was consistent.

H E L P.

Which is correct for APA format in essay writing?