APA: How To

The pages below will serve as a reference for students curious about writing in APA style. For the purposes of this course, I am mainly interested in the ability to citing sources using APA formatting, not necessarily how to format a paper using APA style. (What I mean is I don't need a cover page, an abstract, etc.)

Students should use a general paper formatting style of 1" margins, double-spaced, 10-12 point font (typically Arial or Times New Roman). Papers generally use tabs (or indentations of five spaces) to denote new paragraphs. Papers should not leave lines between paragraphs.

Parenthetical citations

(In-text citations)