APA Tutorial Part I: Formatting your paper INFORMATION AVAILABLE IN CHAPTER 5 OF THE PUBLICATION MANUAL OF THE APA (5TH ED.)

Introduction to APA formatting Before you begin: Use 8½ X 11 inch paper 12 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.

Insert Word scans here Examples: Page layout Notice the page size, the 12-point Times New Roman font, the double spacing, and the 1 inch margins.

Your affiliation (school, etc) 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 Document Your 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.

Paragraphs and Numbering 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) 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)

Below is an example of how the page numbering should look, beginning on page 1 Example: Page numbers Notice the abbreviated title of the paper in the header as well.

Spacing and Punctuation Place one space after each of the following forms of punctuation: Commas, colons, and semicolons At the end of a sentence Periods that separate parts of a reference citation Periods of the initials in personal names (e.g. T. A. Bowman) Most commonly used punctuations in APA style: Quotation marks Periods Commas Semicolons

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

Headings Levels of heading p113

Reducing Bias in Language p66

Numbers p122