Place holder 1 APA The Basics Plus

Place holder 2 Overview 1. The APA format 2. The format for references 3. The format for in-text citations

Place holder 3 1.The APA format  Margins, Fonts, and Spacing  Title page  Body of the paper

Place holder 4 Margins, Fonts, and Spacing  1” margins  12-point font – Times New Roman preferred  Double-spaced throughout

Place holder 5 Title page  The title should be no more than 12 words, centered, and in the upper half of the page  The running head and the page number should both appear in the header  For more information, go to

Place holder 6 Body of the paper  The usual APA paper should include an Abstract, an Introduction, a section on the Method used, Results, a Discussion, and References  The APA format allows for 5 levels of headings

Place holder 7 2. The format for references References should be:  Listed in alphabetical order  Started on a new page, with a centered heading  Double-spaced  Arranged in a hanging indent format

Place holder 8 References: Books American collegiate dictionary (4 th ed.). (1995). Indianapolis, IN: Huntsfield. Shotton, M. A. (1989). Computer addiction? A study of computer dependency. London, England: Taylor & Francis. Terusami, H. T. (1993). Relativity. In The new handbook of science (Vol. 12, pp ). Chicago: Modern Science Encyclopedia.

Place holder 9 References: Periodicals Gleick, E. (2000, December 4). The burdens of genius [review of the book The last samurai, by Helen DeWitt]. Time, 156, 171. Leftlow, B. S. (1993, December 18). Corporate take-overs confuse stock market predictions. The Wall Street Journal, pp. A1, A14. Morawski, J. (2000). Social psychology a century ago. American Psychologist, 55,

Place holder 10 References: Internet sources Many articles from Internet sources are now given a DOI number. Whenever available, use the DOI number rather than the URL. Herbst-Damm, K. L, J. A. (2005). Volunteer support, marital status, and the survival times of terminally ill patients. Health Psychology, 24, doi: / Brody, J. E. (2007, December 11). Mental reserves keep brain agile. The New York Times. Retrieved from

Place holder The format for in-text citations  For a paraphrase  At the end of a paraphrased sentence, place in parentheses the author(s) and year of the publication  The citation counts as part of the sentence, so the period goes after the closing parenthesis  Example from a sample paper: Presently, we consume more than 500 million cubic meters of wood and wood products a year, an amount projected to increase close to 600 million cubic meters in less than ten years (Haynes, Adams, & Mills, 1998).

Place holder 12 The format for in-text citations  For direct quotations  When using a direct quotation, cite the source immediately after in parentheses  Use author, year, and page number(s)  Example from a sample paper: Many others agree with the assessment that “this is a seriously flawed study” (Methasa, 1996, p. 22) and do not include its data in their own work.

Place holder 13 Remember… Include the publication year the first time you mention an author, for example, Tanaka (2001). The year is no longer required in following references, if the source is the same. When the author is an organization or a group, give the complete name and acronym the first time, then in following references, just use the acronym. For example, (National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH], 2003) for the first time, then, just (NIMH, 2003). Between three and five authors, cite them all the first time; subsequently, use the first surname followed by et al. For six or more authors, always cite the first surname followed by et al. and the year.

Place holder 14 For more information The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6 th edition) Concise Rules of APA Style (6 th edition) The APA website: