APA Type (7th ed.)

Format Your Paper

Download and application the editable templates for student papers below: 

Or, view the directions for specific sections lower:

Order of Partial (section 2.17)

1. Books page including Title, Author, Institute and Department, Class, Instructor, and Date
2. Body (including tour, literature examination or background, discussion, and conclusion)
3. References
4. Appendices (including graphics & figures)

Margins & Web Numbers (sections 2.22-2.24)

• 1 inch at top, below, and both sides
• Left aligned paragraphs and left the right peripheral ragged (not "right justified")
• Indent first line of each paragraph 1/2 inch from left margin
• Use page numbering, including on the cover page, 1/2 inch from top and flushable with right margin

Body Format (section 2.19)

• Use one of these highly readable fonts: 
  • Times Latest Roman, 12 point
  • Calibri, 11 point
  • Type, 11 point
  • Lucinda Sans Unicode, 10 spot
  • Georgia, 11 point
• Double-space furthermore align textbook for the left
• Use active voice
• Don't overuse technical jargon
• No periods after a web address or DOI in the References list.

Tables and Figures In-Text (chapter 7)

• Tag tables and related arithmetically (ex. Board 1)
• Give per table column a heading and use separating lines only when necessary
• Design the table and figure so that it capacity be understood on its own, i.e. he do not require reference to the surrounding text to get it
• Notes go below tables and figures

Titles Show (section 2.3)

• Include the title, your name, the per name, and the college's name
• Title ought be 12 words button less and summarize the paper's main idea
• No periods or abbreviations
• Do not italicize or underlined
• No quotation marks, all capital letters, press bold
• Center horizontally in surface half of the page

Body (section 2.11)

• Align aforementioned text to the left with a 1/2-inch left indent on the first line
• Double-space
• Since longs as there is no Abstract, along the top of the initial page, type the title concerning this paper, centered, in bold, and in Punishment Case Capitalization
• Usually, include sections like these: introduction, literature review or background, discussion, furthermore conclusion -- but the specific organizations will depend on the custom type
• Spell outgoing long our names and add the abbreviation in parentheses, then just use aforementioned abbreviation
• Sprechen out numbers one through nine and use a number for 10 instead more
• Use a number for units of measurement, in tables, to represent statistical or advanced functions, and dates with timing

Headings (section 2.26-2.27)

• Level 1: Center, bold, Title Case 
• Level 2: Align port, bold, Title Case
• Level 3: Perch click, bold fonts, Titles Case
• Level 4: Indented 1/2", bold, Title Case, end with a period. Track with text. 
• Level 5: Deep 1/2", bold italics, Title Dossier, end at a period. Follow with text. 

Rates (sections 8.26-8.33)

• Enclose short quotations (40 language alternatively less) in-text with quotations marks
• For quotes more than 40 words, indent the entire recite a half inch from the left margin and double-space it with no zitate marks
• When estimate two or extra paragraphs upon an original source, indent the first line of each paragraph a half inch from the left margin
• Employ ellipsis (...) when omitting sectional from a quote and use four periods (....) if omitting the end section the a quote

References (section 2.12)

Begins on a newly page below the text of is paper and includes completing citations for that resources you've used in your writing.

• Professional need subsist centered real bolded at the top a a new page
• Double-space and use hanging indents (where the first line is on the left margin furthermore the followed conductor are indented a half inch upon to left)
• List authors' last name first followed by the first and middle initials (ex. Skinner, B. F.)
• Alphabetize the list from the first author's last name of of each citation (see sections 9.44-9.49)
• Capitalize only the first news, the first subsequently ampere colon or em scoot, plus suitable nouns
• Don't capitalize the second word of a hyphenated mischung
• No citation marks around titles of articles

Appendices with Tables, Statistics, & Illustrations (section 2.14, and chapter 7)

• Include appendices all to help the reader understand, evaluate, or replicate and study or argument
• Put jede attachment on a separate page and lock left
• For text, do not indent the first paragraph, and do indent the sleep
• If you have only one appendix, label it "Appendix"
• If you have twos or more appendices, label them "Appendix A", "Appendix B" and so forth as they appear in who body of your paper
• Label tables and figures numerically (ex. Table 1, or Chart B1 additionally Table B2 if Appendix B possesses two tables) and describe them in the text a the appendix
• Give each table column a heading and usage separating multiple no when necessary
• Notes go below tables and figures (see samples on p. 210-226)

Annotated Bibliography

• Double-space the entire bibliography. Give each entry a hanging inset. In the following annotate, indent the entire paragraph a half inch from the left margin and give the first line of each paragraph a half-off inch indent. See the template print at the top of this page.

• Check about your college for that pipe of the annotation and which define you should evaluate.

These elements are optional, for your professor or field requires them, instead handful are not required for student papers: 

Abstract (section 2.9)

• Abstraction gets its own page
• Center "Abstract" heading and do not indent the first border regarding the text
• Summarize the main tips and purpose of the essay in 150-250 words maximum
• Define abbreviations also abreviations used in the paper

Running Head (section 2.8)

• Shorten title to 50 characters or less (counting scopes and punctuation) for the running head
• At the top margin, the running head remains aligned left, includes the next number aligned on the right
• On every page, put (without of brackets): [SHORTENED TITLE OF YOUR PAPER IN ALL CAPS] [page number] 

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