Proper+APA+Format

Proper APA Format **If using Word 2007or higher – to go page layout tab, click on “paragraph” and click “don’t add space between paragraphs of same style”**
 * Paper: ****Spacing: **
 * Double spaced – including quotations, notes, and list of works cited


 * Margins: **
 * 1” on all sides
 * Paragraphs indented 1/2” (one tab)
 * Set-off quotations – 1” from left margin (approx. 10 spaces)


 * Font: **
 * 12 point
 * Times New Roman or Cambria
 * Color – white
 * Size – 8 ½ x 11 “

Title Page: ** > According to Pulitzer Prize winning author David Kocieniewski (2012), “ [. . .]” (as cited in Jones, 2013, p. 56). **<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Use the following websites to make sure you’ve gotten everything correct: ** <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab: [] <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Son of Citation: []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Running Head at the top of the cover page
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Insert page number flush right
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Type the title of your paper flush left in all capital letters
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Shortened version of your actual paper title (no more than 50 characters)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Other information:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Centered on page both vertically and horizontally
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The title should be neither underlined nor written in all capital letters
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Author (your name)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Number of Course
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">College or Institution you are from
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Date of Publication
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Internal Page layout: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Double Spaced
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Running Head __WITHOUT__ the words “running head” at the top of the page, all capital letters
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Full Title of the paper centered at the top of the page
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Internal Citations: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Signal Phrase indicated the author and author’s credentials
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Year of publication in parenthesis after author’s name - i.e. According to research done by Dr. Phyllis Kim (2008),
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Page number (if available) at the end of the paraphrased or quoted information in parenthesis - i.e. (p. 65-68)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Without a signal phrase, the author(s)’s name goes before the year and page number and are separated by commas – i.e. (Kim, 2008, p. 65-68)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Using a quoted source from within a larger source looks like this –
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">More than one author from a source:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Two authors – name then both
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Three or more authors – use name of first author listed on study and the words //et al// (Latin for “and others”)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Reference Page: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Double Spaced
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Labeled REFERENCES in all capitals, centered at the top of the page
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Hanging indentations (just like MLA!)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Use author’s last name and first name initial only
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Alphabetized by author’s last name
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">If using more than one source with the same author, sources are listed chronologically
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Copy punctuation and capitalization as it is used by the sources
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Books, journals, magazine, and newspaper titles are in //italics//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Do not italicize, underline or put quotes around shorter works like article titles