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APA Style Essentials

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Last modified March 15, 2011 Douglas Degelman, PhD Vanguard University of Southern California

The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed., 2010) and the APA Style web site (http://www.apastyle.org/) provide a comprehensive reference guide to writing using APA style, organization, and content. To order a copy of the Publication Manual online, go to http://books.apa.org/books.cfm?id=4200066. To view "PDF" documents referenced on this APA Style Essentials page, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader. To download the free Acrobat Reader, go to http://get.adobe.com/reader/. The purpose of this document is to provide a common core of elements of APA style that all members of an academic department can adopt as minimal standards for any assignment that specifies APA style. This Web document is itself not a model of APA style. For an example of a complete article formatted according to APA style, go to http://psychology.vanguard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/paper.pdf. For an example of an undergraduate research proposal, go to http://psychology.vanguard.edu/wpcontent/uploads/2010/12/proposal.pdf. To download a Microsoft Word template of an APA-style paper, go to http://psychology.vanguard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/template.doc. I. General Document Guidelines A. Margins: One inch on all sides (top, bottom, left, right) B. Font Size and Type: 12-pt. Times New Roman font C. Line Spacing: Double-space throughout the paper, including the title page, abstract, body of the document, references, appendixes, footnotes, tables, and figures. D. Spacing after Punctuation: Space once after commas, colons, and semicolons within sentences. Insert two spaces after punctuation marks that end sentences. E. Alignment: Flush left (creating uneven right margin) F. Paragraph Indentation: 5-7 spaces G. Pagination: The page number appears one inch from the...