INFORMATION AVAILABLE IN CHAPTER 5 OF THE PUBLICATION MANUAL OF THE APA (5TH ED.)

APA Tutorial Part I: Formatting your paper

Introduction to APA formatting

Before you begin:Use 8½ X 11 inch

paper12 point, New

Times Roman, or similar font

1-inch margins on all sides

Double-space your text

Publication Manual of the APA (5th ed.)Hint: You may want to familiarize

yourself with how to make these changes to your paper in Microsoft Word.

Examples: Page layout

Notice the page size, the 12-point Times New Roman font, the double spacing, and the 1 inch margins.

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Title page

Use a “running header” (see example next page)

The first page is your title page.Centered in the middle of the Title page is

the following information:

Title of DocumentYour name

Your affiliation (school, etc)

Example: Title Page

Here is a screen shot of an appropriate title page, with running head, page number, and title.

ParagraphsParagraphs Numbering pagesNumbering pages

Indent the first line of each paragraph by five to seven spaces (or use the easy way: hit the tab button)

Do not add an extra line (by hitting enter) between paragraphs; your paper is double-spaced to do this for you

Number pages consecutively, starting w/ title page as page 1

Number goes in the Header, located at the far right of the page (see example)

Paragraphs and Numbering pages

Hint: In Word 97-03, if you go to “View”, then “Headers and Footers”, then “Insert page numbers”, Word will insert your page numbers for you (in Office 2007, go to Insert, then Page number)

Example: Page numbers

Notice the abbreviated title of the paper in the header as well.

Below is an example of how the page numbering should look, beginning on page 1

SpacingSpacing PunctuationPunctuation

Most commonly used punctuations in APA style:

Quotation marksPeriodsCommasSemicolons

Spacing and Punctuation

Place one space after each of the following forms of punctuation:1)Commas, colons, and semicolons2)At the end of a sentence3)Periods that separate parts of a reference citation4)Periods of the initials in personal names (e.g. T. A. Bowman)

Spacing and Punctuation

Notice the one space between sentences and following each comma, period, colon, semi-colon, and hyphen.

Example:

Headings

Levels of heading p113

Reducing Bias in Language

p66

Numbers

p122