1. BASIC APA GUIDELINES To play with notes, click on the next slide to the left. To watch just the basic eight slides, click on SLIDE SHOW at the top of the page then, FROM BEGINNING. Use the Enter key to go to the next slide. Press the Escape key when you’re done.

2. Formatting Word Double-spaced 12 pt. Times New Roman Letter-sized paper 1" margins on all sides Running head.

3. Center the following: Title of Paper Student Name Course/Number Due Date Faculty Name TITLE PAGE

4. Title of Paper The introduction is often the most important paragraph in the entire essay. Your first page

5. Level One Heading Replace “level one heading” with the words for your heading. Level Two Heading (if needed) flush with left margin After the introduction

6. Literature Overview Anxiety and rejection sensitivity are two important facets of psychological functioning that have received much attention in the literature. For example, Ronen and Baldwin (2010) demonstrated.... Method Participants Participants were 80 university students (35 men, 45 women) whose mean age was 20.25 years (SD = 1.68). Approximately 70% of participants were European American, 15% were African American, 9% were Hispanic American, and 6% were Asian American. They received course credit for their participation. Procedure Recruitment. We placed flyers about the study on bulletin boards around campus, and the study was included on the list of open studies on the Psychology Department website. To reduce bias in the sample, we described the study as a “personality study” rather than specifically mentioning our target traits of anxiety and rejection sensitivity. Session 1: Psychiatric diagnoses. LEVEL ONE LEVEL TWO

7. Introduction (introductory paragraph), Body (generally at least 3 paragraphs), Conclusion (generally one paragraph) Ingredients for an APA paper

8. References This is a hanging indent. You can use the Reference and Citation Generator to help format your source information into a reference entry. The reference page always begins on the top of the next page after the conclusion. REFERENCE PAGE