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Citation Style Guides: Formatting and Style

Sample Papers

These sample papers and checklist are a great reference tool. Use them to make sure your paper follows the APA Style.

The Basics

Basic Formatting Rules

  • Typed, double-spaced
  • 1" margins
  • Times New Roman 12pt. font
  • Include a page header ("running header") at the top of every page. The header should be flush left and in all capital letters. It is a shorten version of your paper title, and should not be more than 50 characters.

Major Sections of an APA Paper:

  • Title Page
  • Abstract
  • Main Body (including literature review, discussion, methods, conclusion)
  • Reference

This interactive page from the NCSU Libraries give a break down of the basic components of a published APA articles: Anatomy of a Scholarly Article

Formatting Your APA Paper in MS Word 2013

Taylor, D. (2009, October 30). APA Format Citations- Sixth (6th) Edition [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pbUoNa5tyY