Transcript APA Guidelines: - CSUSM Community

Adapted from the following sources:
ASU College of Education Graduate Resources
Robin Sontheimer University of Missouri-Kansas City Writing Center
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Margins: 1 inch around on all sides
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Font: Serif fonts only – e.g. Times,
Times New Roman, Courier; 12 pt
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Line spacing: double spaced
throughout
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Word spacing: see §4.01-4.02,
pp. 87-88
 1 space after commas, colons, & semi-colons
 1 space after period in name (A. B. Smith)
 1 space after period separating parts of
reference citation
 1 space after periods in sentences in text
OR
2 spaces when submitting for review / feedback
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Numbers expressing approximate lengths of
time are written as words (see §4.31-4.38)
Use zero before a decimal fraction (p. 113)
New ways to cite statistics and present tables
(ch. 5)
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Different First Page Header
Running head: SHORT TITLE ALL CAPS IN HEADER
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No more
than 50
characters
Full Title of Paper: Sentence Case, Centered Left to Right
Name of Author
Author’s Affiliation
Full title is
centered and
positioned in
upper half of
the page
Author Note
Author note with more information about affiliation, research grants, conflict
of interest and how to contact.
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Running head: CONDENSED TITLE
 No more than 50 character title
 Title is in all caps, Regular font, not bold
 Left justified
Page # right corner
Title is centered
Running head: SHORT TITLE ALL CAPS IN HEADER
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 In upper half of pg
 12 words or less
 Double spaced
 Upside down pyramid
Full Title of Paper: Sentence Case, Centered Left to Right
Name of Author
Author’s Affiliation
format for two lines
Author’s name
 On next line
University Affiliation
 On next line
Author Note
Author note with more information about affiliation, research grants, conflict
of interest and how to contact.
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Running head: “CONDENSED TITLE” left justified
 Use Section 2 Header Format,
to omit “Running head:” from the rest of the document.
Page number is right hand corner in header, page number 2.
Title “Thesis Abstract” or “Project Abstract”
 Title case, centered, regular font, not bold
Differentiate between thesis and project
Body of abstract begins on second line, left justified, not indented–
see rubric for content
Double spaced
Limit one page – No more than 250 words
Keywords – left justified, indented and the key words/phrases are in
alphabetical order.
“Keywords: action research, high school, peer coaching, writing workshop”
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Optional Section.
Follows Abstract Page.
Title, centered, regular font.
Text begins on 2nd line.
Your choice of content, focus on
acknowledging the people that provided you
academic support.
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Title: TABLE OF CONTENTS - Centered, in all caps
Page # right corner
Make 3 column table
SHORT TITLE ALL CAPS IN HEADER
Of 2-3 Rows
First Column includes:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
…………………………………………………………………. Page
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Acknowledgements……
 List of Tables………………
 List of Figures…………….
2nd Column = ………….
3rd column = Page #
Make 5 column table
1st column = chapter
titles,
reference & appendices
2nd column = subheadings
3rd column = next level of headings
4th column = …..
5th column = page #
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ABSTRACT ……………………………………………………………………. 2
List of Tables ……………………………………………………………………. 4
List of Figures ………………………………….……………………….………. 5
Chapter I: Introduction
Statement of the Problem
……………………..………………….…………. 6
…………………..……………………………… 7
Purpose of the Study
……………………..……………………………… 8
Literature Review
……………………..……………………………… 9
Methodology
……………………..………………………………10
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Optional
This is a table of contents for your tables.
Item numbered, title, page number provided
“Table 1: Title …………………………Page 15”
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Optional
This is a table of contents for your figures.
Item numbered, title, page number provided
“Figure 1: Title …………………………Page 15”
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Use levels consecutively
If your paper has three levels, use levels 1, 2, and 3
 Use table to differentiate level heading formats
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Level of
Heading
Formatting of Heading
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Centered, Boldface, Uppercase and Lowercase Heading
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Flush Left, Boldface, Uppercase and Lowercase Heading
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Indented, boldface, lowercase paragraph heading ending with a period.
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Indented, boldface, italicized, lowercase paragraph heading ending with a period.
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Indented, italicized, lowercase paragraph heading ending with a period.
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Centered, regular font, title case
The Chapter Titles are not headings.
Do not use this as a level one heading.
The first heading of your chapter uses Level 1
Heading Format.
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OUTLINE
HOW IT WOULD LOOK IN YOUR
PAPER
I. Method
a. First type
Method
In this paper I used two types of methods to figure out the results of
my experiment.
i. Part One
ii. Part Two
b. Second Type
i. Part One
ii. Part Two
II. Results
First Type: Sand Collecting
The first type of method I used was the sand collecting method.
Part one of the sand collecting method: collection. This part
included collecting sand and putting it into giant buckets to be sorted by
grain size.
Part two of the sand collecting method: testing. This part
included…
Results
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General format for long quotes (§6.03):
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indented one-half inch(5 spaces)
do not use quotation marks
citation appears one space after last punctuation of quote
Friedman (2006) draws connections between two seemingly disparate
events: November 9 (dismantling of the Berlin Wall) and September
11 (attack on the World Trade Center). He believes
these two dates represent the two competing forms of imagination at
work in the world today: the creative imagination of 11/9 and the
destructive imagination of 9/11. One brought down a wall and opened
the windows of the world. . . [the other] putting up new invisible and
concrete walls among people. (p. 543)
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Double Space.
Left justify the first line & indent the following.
Alphabetize all references.
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Periodical Example:
Little, D. W. (200l). Leading change: Creating the future for
education technology. Syllabus International, 15(5), 2224.
Book Example:
Anderson, A. B., Smith, S. D., & Jones, J. C. (1978). A
distant mirror: The calamitous fourteenth century (3rd
ed.). New York, NY: Knopf.
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Optional
Headings: Label each appendix using letters.
“Appendix A: Pagination”
Organize the appendices in the order referred
to within the text of the paper. For example if
you make reference to the Vocabulary Graphic
Organizer and then a Survey, then
Appendix A: Vocabulary Graphic Organizer
Appendix B: Survey
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American Psychological Association (2010).
Publication manual of the American
Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington,
DC: Author.
APA Website: www.apastyle.org
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Updated APA guideline notes on ELCSE website
under Student Resources
(http://www.aug.edu/elcse/ELCSE_APA_Guideli
nes.pdf
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http://flash1r.apa.org/apastyle/basics/index.ht
m
for a tutorial about APA Style
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http://flash1r.apa.org/apastyle/whatsnew/inde
x.htm for a tutorial about the changes
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