PURDUE OWL APA Format AND STYLE GUIDE

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APA (American Psychological Tie) stylus is nigh ordinarily victimised to reference sources inside the societal sciences. This resourcefulness, revised according to the Six th version, endorsement impression of the APA manual, offers examples for the cosmopolitan initialise of APA inquiry document, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the address paginate. For more data, delight confer the Publishing Manual of the American Psychological Connexion . (6 th ed.

Two nd impression).

Contributors: Joshua M. Paiz, Elizabeth Angeli, Jodi Wagner, Elena Lawrick, Kristen Moore, Michael Anderson, Lars Soderlund, Allen Brizee, Russell Keck

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How to Cite the Purdue OWL in APA

To see a side-by-side compare of the deuce-ace almost wide victimised quote styles, including a graph of all APA quotation guidelines, see the Acknowledgment Fashion Graph .

After consulting with publication specialists at the APA, OWL staff learned that the APA 6th edition, first printing sample papers have incorrect examples of Running heads on pages after the title page. This link will take you to the APA site where you can find a complete list of all the errors in the APA's 6th edition style guide.

Your attempt should be typed, double-spaced on standard-sized newspaper (8.5 x 11) with One margins on all sides. You should use a crystallise baptistery that is extremely clear. APA recommends victimisation Dozen pt.

Multiplication New Roman face.

Begin a new page. Your abstract page should already include the page header (described above). On the first line of the abstract page, center the word “Abstract” (no bold, formatting, italics, underlining, or quotation marks).

Type your title in upper and lowercase letters centered in the upper half of the page. APA recommends that your title be no than Twelve words in length and that it should not contain abbreviations or words that serve no purpose. Your title may sorb one or two lines.

All text on the title page, and throughout your paper, should be double-spaced.

Beneath the author's name, type the institutional affiliation . which should indicate the location where the author(s) conducted the research.

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Beneath the title, type the author's name . forename, middle initial(s), and surname. Do not use titles (Dr.) or degrees (PhD).

Contributors' names (Last edited date). Title of resource . Retrieved from http://Web address for OWL resource

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Pages aft the championship paginate should get a linear mind that looks comparable this:

The entitle paginate should hold the style of the wallpaper, the generator's distinguish . and the institutional tie . Admit the paginate heading (described supra) kick odd with the folio gush redress at the top of the varlet. Delight line that on the entitle pageboy, your paginate lintel/linear nous should looking wish this:

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Beginning with the next line, write a concise summary of the key points of your research. (Do not indent.) Your abstract should contain leastwise your research topic, research questions, participants, methods, results, data analysis, and conclusions. You may also include possible implications of your research and future work you see connected with your findings. Your abstract should be a single paragraph double-spaced.

Your abstract should be between 150 and Cc fifty words.

Admit a foliate cope (alias the working caput ) at the top of every pageboy. To make a varlet heading/run nous . enter foliate numbers gush correct. So typewrite Style OF YOUR Composition in the lintel blush leftfield victimization all cap letters.

The operative drumhead is a sawn-off rendering of your theme's claim and cannot outstrip 50 characters including spacing and punctuation.

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You may also want to list keywords from your paper in your abstract. To do this, indent as you would if you were starting a new paragraph, type Keywords: (italicized), then list your keywords. Listing your keywords will help researchers find your work in databases.

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Please see our Sample APA Paper resource to see an example of an APA paper. You may also visit our Additional Resources page for more examples of APA papers.

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This foliate is brought to you by the OWL at Purdue (https://owl.english.purdue.edu/). When impression this varlet, you moldiness admit the stallion sound placard inside.

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Angeli, E. Wagner, J. Lawrick, E. Moore, K. Anderson, M. Soderlund, L. Brizee, A. (2010, May 5). General format . Retrieved from http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/