How to present your paper using the APA formatting style ...

How to present your paper using the APA formatting style (6th Edition)

(Information related to the 7th Edition is typed in blue)

This presentation is based on Microsoft Word 2010

Title page

APA requires a title page for documents. The title page should have a running head, page number at the

top right hand corner, title of the essay/paper, name of student, affiliation/institution, course number and

name, name of instructor and the due date of the assignment.

1. Create a header

a. Click on the INSERT tab (or double click in the header section of the paper).

(The 7th edition does not require a header for student paper unless required

by the instructor)

b. Click on HEADER and select BLANK

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c. Click on DIFFERENT FIRST PAGE

d. Type the running head as outlined below (please note the use of the upper and lower case letters; do

not place in bold). Ensure to leave a space between the colon and the title

Running head: TITLE OF PAPER

The title of the paper is a short version of your work. It should be contained only in one line and should

not exceed 50 characters including spaces.

For example, if your assignment stated the following: For the course Child Care Development with

code CCD 101 and taught by Mr. Denzzell Fabrique, do a research essay on three theories of language

acquisition in young children. Outline the main principles of each theory. Your name is Bwille

Drannon and your ID# is WS000-20. You attend the North Westbank University. The shortened or

paraphrased title could state: Theories of language acquisition.

For the running head you would use that shortened version of the title of the paper and it should be

placed in full CAPS.

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2. Insert the page number

a. After typing the running head information, press the TAB key once or twice (i.e. until the cursor is at the

right hand margin

b. Click on PAGE NUMBER in the header ribbon, then from the drop down menu click

CURRENT POSITION, then select PLAIN NUMBER

c. After the page number has been inserted, exit from the header and the footer mode by clicking on CLOSE

HEADER AND FOOTER

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3. Formatting the title page

a. Once back in the document mode, do the following formatting:

- Select the font style to

Times New Romans

Set the font size to a

12 point font size

- Centre the cursor

NB: Information related to the 7th edition

A variety of fonts are permitted in APA Style papers. Font options include the following:

? sans serif fonts such as

o Calibri, 11-point

o Arial, 11-point

o 10-point Lucida Sans Unicode,10-point

?

serif fonts

o Times New Roman, 12-point

o Georgia, or normal 11-point

o Computer Modern (the default font for LaTeX), 10-point

- Set the spacing to double line

(i.e. 2.0)

- Also remove:

? space before paragraph

? space after paragraph

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Then set the page margins which should be 1¡± for the top, bottom and sides.

To set the margins, click on the PAGE

LAYOUT tab,

Select MARGINS

From the drop down options, choose

Normal

Once the formatting is complete, it is time to type the information for the title page.

4. Typing the pertinent information for the title page

The following information is required for the title page:

- Title of the paper, author, affiliation, course, instructor, due date

b. Type the title three to four lines down from the top of the title page. Center it and capitalize major words

of the title (the 7th edition stipulates placing the title in bold)

Using the example that was presented above, the assignment stated: Do a research essay on three

theories of language acquisition and outline the main principles of each theory. Therefore the title for

this paper could be: Essay on three theories of language acquisition.

c. Type the following pieces of information in separate lines:

- Author¡¯s Name (& ID#)

- Affiliation/Institution

- Course code and course name (7th edition)

- Instructor¡¯s name

- Due date

Here are other pieces of information to complete the title page: The course, for which you are to do a

research essay on three theories of language acquisition in young children, is taught by Mr. Denzzell

Fabrique; the course name is Child Care Development with code CCD 101. Your name is Bwille

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