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APA Advanced:
Preparing for
FSEHS Final Review
(Using APA 6th ed.)
APA Advanced: preparing for FSEHS Final Review (using APA 2007 Style Guide)
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Publication Manual of the
American Psychological Association
6th ed.
http://www.schoolofed.nova.edu/arc
Title:
Student’s Name
Institution
Year
Disable Auto-Formatting in Word
It is OK to turn off
Widow/Orphan control.
Table of Contents
Abstract
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Pagination
• Use roman numerals in
first section for
Acknowledgments,
Abstract, and TOC – at
bottom in the middle of
the page
Pagination in Body of Paper
• Page numbers go in
upper right-hand
corner
• 1½ inch left
Margins
margin for
dissertation.
• Tables and
appendices MUST
have correct margins!
Spacing
APA Headings
• Bolding used
72
for headings & Formatting rules for the paper – no bolding, no underlining, not bullets, APA headings
mathematical Chapter 3
Level 1
symbols but Use double-spacing throughout the paper including the title
not text. page, abstract, body of the document, reference list, appendixes,
tables, and figure captions. APA does permit single spacing within
• No Methodology Level 2
Introduction Major headings require specific formatting (a) The first word of
section the heading is capitalized as well as all major words; (b) articles,
Sample and
Exceptions forPopulation.
dissertation. Other issues also need to be Level 3
Headings --APA (6th ed.) , p. 62
Do not use
Word’s
headings to
format the
different levels
of APA
headings.
Level 2
Definition of Terms This is not
numbered so
For theFormatting definitions
purposes of this study, do not use
the following terms are defined. a colon.
Level 3 Information literacy. This phrase refers to a
set of standards approved by …
Outcomes. For the purposes of this applied
dissertation, outcome refers to ….
Assessment. This term refers to …
Italicized -- APA, p. 91
• Use figures for all times – years, months, days, hours, minutes
More exceptions:
• Type II error
• Post hoc comparisons
• randomly assigned
participants
assignments” (Tunon, 2006, p. 34), but she concluded that they always summarized
At end of a sentence
Tunon (2006) found that “instructors may or may not want to require an abstract for class
use APA formatting. When discussing the challenges, Tunon (2006) found the following:
Use quotes around an article title or book chapter, but italicize the title of a book,
journal, … or report when used in the body of the paper. Use a shot [sic] title
in the parenthetical citation or complete title if the title is short. NOTE Non-periodical
titles like books and book titles have all the important words capitalized in the text
citations, but these same book titles do not have all the important words capitalized
in the reference list. (p. 342)
When Citing Direct Quotes
Citing direct quotes
Text citation:
Seidenberg and McClelland’s study (as
cited in Coltheart, Curtis, Atkins, & Haller,
1993) …
List the primary source in the reference list entry:
Coltheart, M., Curtis, B., Atkins, P., & Haller,
M. (1993.) Models of reading aloud.
Psychological Review, 100(5), 589-608.
Formatting Reference List
Citations
Eight or More Authors in Reference List
When you have eight or more authors, list the first six authors’
names and then insert three ellipses, followed by the last author’s
name.
See APA manual, pp. 184, 198
Spacing after Punctuation:
Use the find and replace feature
Students’ scores
improved. The study
demonstrated that …
Ingham, R. J., Warner, A., Byrd, A., & Cotton, J. (2006). Speech
effort measurement and stuttering: Investigating the chorus
reading effect. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing
Research, 49(3), 660-670.
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Reference with a DOI
Ingham, R. J., Warner, A., Byrd, A., & Cotton, J. (2006). Speech
effort measurement and stuttering: Investigating the chorus
reading effect. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing
Research, 49(3), 660-670. doi:10.1044/1092
-4388(2006/048)
Article and Book with Assigned DOIs
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