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Make sure your essay• is typed, double-spaced• is printed on standard 8.5”x11” paper• has 1” margins on all sides• uses 12 pt. Times New Roman or a similar font • includes a page header (short title and page number)

in the upper right of every page

Standard vs. Student formats

APA provides guidelines for manuscript formatting but not specifically for student papers. For students, many instructors use their own variation on the standard APA format.

Check with your instructor if you’re not sure which to use.

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Page header:(use Insert Header & Footer)2-3 words of the title+5 spaces +page number

Running head for publication :(on the first line, flush-left, max 50 characters long)Running Head + colon + abbreviated title in ALL CAPS

Title: (in the upper half of the page,

centered)full title + name + affiliation (university, etc.)

For more on title pages see http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

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For more on title pages see http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

Page header:(use Insert Header & Footer)2-3 words of the title+5 spaces +page number

No running head for publication

Title: (centered)full title + name + instructor’s name + course title (NUR 106, etc.) + date

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Write a brief (120 words or fewer) summary of your paper in an accurate, concise, and specific manner.

Type the paragraph in block format—without indentation.

Page header

Abstract (centered, at the top of the page)

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Although the first paragraph is the introduction, never use the heading “Introduction” to start your paper

Page header

Title (centered, at top)

For more see the sample APA paper at http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e/pdf/Hacker-Mira-APA-2010.pdf

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Level Format

1 Centered, Boldface, Uppercase and Lowercase Headings

2 Left-aligned, Boldface, Uppercase and Lowercase Heading

3 Indented, boldface, lowercase heading with a period.

4 Indented, boldface, italicized, lowercase heading with a period.

5 Indented, italicized, lowercase heading with a period.

For more see http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/16/

Regardless of the number of levels, always use the headings in order, beginning with level 1

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Exact quotation, introduced with signal phrase

As Davis (1978) reported, "If the existence of a signing ape was unsettling for linguists, it was also startling news for animal behaviorists" (p. 26).

Rule: Introduce the quotation with a signal phrase that includes the author's last name followed by the date of publication in parentheses. Put the page number in parentheses at the end of the quotation before the ending punctuation mark.

Exact quotation, no signal phrase

"If the existence of a signing ape was unsettling for linguists, it was also startling news for animal behaviorists" (Davis, 1978, p. 26).

Rule: When the author's name does not appear in the signal phrase, place the author's name, the date, and the page number in parentheses at the end of the quotation. Use commas between items in the parentheses.

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For more see http://www.lib.unc.edu/instruct/citations/index.html?page=apa_intext

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Exact quotation, more than 40 words

Students having a hard time finding databases isn't a new

phenomenon. At the University of Washington, they have

problems too.

With the addition of so many new databases to the

campus online system, many students were having

difficulty locating the database they needed. At the

same time, the role of Session Manager had evolved.

The increased importance of the Session Manager as a

selection tool made it a part of the navigation process

itself. (Eliasen, 1997, p. 510)

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Indent; no quotation marks

Citation comes last

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Two authors, with and without signal phrase

(with signal) Patterson and Linden (1981) agreed that the gorilla Koko acquired language more slowly than a normal speaking child.

(without signal) Koko acquired language more slowly than a normal speaking child (Patterson & Linden, 1981).

Rule: Work with two authors: In the first reference to work, list both authors.

3-5 authors, first reference and subsequent citations

(first reference) The study noted a fluctuating divorce rate in Middletown between the 1920s and the 1970s (Caplow, Bahr, Chadwick, Hill, & Williamson, 1982).

(next references) While the incidence of wife abuse may not be higher than in the past, the researchers found that women were more willing to report it (Caplow et al., 1982).

Rule: Work with 3-5 authors: In the first reference to such a work, list all authors. In subsequent citations, use the first author's name followed by "et al." (note the period after the word "al").

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6 or more authors? Always use “et al.”

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No author

("Former FBI Agent," 2007)

...as seen in Preparing for the GRE (2003).

Rule: When citing from a source with no author given, or when citing from legal materials, use the first few words of the reference list entry (usually the title) and the year as your citation. Place article, web page, chapter, and section titles in double quotation marks, and italicize the titles of books, periodicals, reports, and websites. When a work's author is designated as "Anonymous," cite in text the word Anonymous followed by a comma and the date: (Anonymous, 1998).

No page numbers, often from “HTML full-text” articles

(Myers, 2000, para. 5)

(Beutler, 2000, Conclusion section, para. 1)

Rule: When citing from a source that does not provide page numbers (such as an electronic source), use paragraph numbers if available, or the name of the section followed by the number of the paragraph within that section.

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Print book Print Scholarly Journal Article

Electronic bookScholarly Journal Article from a Database

For more on reference types see http://www.lib.unc.edu/instruct/citations

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Page header

References (centered, at top)

Alphabetize by last name

Double space reference entries

First line flush-left; other lines are indented. (Use Paragraph to insert hanging indent, manually indent ½”, or manually insert 5 spaces)

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