FORMATTING the APA Paper
All APA papers must be written using this standard spacing.
What is double spacing?
The title that appears centred at the top of the reference page.
What is References?
An APA in-text citation usually includes these two elements.
What are the author’s last name and year of publication?
The title of the paper should appear in this position on the title page.
Where is the centre of the page, in bold?
This occurs when someone presents another person’s ideas or words as their own.
What is plagiarism?
APA requires this margin size on all four sides of the page.
What are 1-inch margins?
The references must be arranged in this order.
What is alphabetical order by the author's last name?
When directly quoting a source, this additional element must be included.
What is the page number?
This information appears directly below the title.
What is the author’s name?
This strategy helps avoid plagiarism by rewriting ideas in your own words and citing the source.
What is paraphrasing?
This alignment is used for the entire body of an APA paper.
What is left-aligned text (not justified)?
This formatting style is used after the first line of each reference entry.
What is a hanging indent?
This citation format is used when the author’s name appears naturally in the sentence.
What is a narrative citation?
Example:
Smith (2022) explains…
This institutional information follows the author's name on the title page.
What is the name of the institution (e.g., International College of the Cayman Islands)?
This action must always be taken when you use a direct quote.
What is including quotation marks and a citation?
This formatting feature is required for the first line of every paragraph in APA.
What is a 0.5-inch first-line indentation?
This information immediately follows the author’s name in a reference entry.
What is the publication year in parentheses?
This citation format is used when both the author and year appear in parentheses.
What is a parenthetical citation?
Example:
(Smith, 2022)
These two elements usually appear below the institutional affiliation.
What are the course name and instructor’s name?
This section of an APA paper lists all sources that were cited in the paper.
What is the reference page?
APA requires page numbers to appear in this location.
Where is the top right corner of every page?
This identifier is preferred in APA electronic library references because it provides a permanent link to the source.
What is a DOI (Digital Object Identifier)?
If a source has three or more authors, APA requires this abbreviation after the first author's name.
What is et al.?
Example:
(Brown et al., 2021)
This final element appears at the bottom of the title page.
What is the assignment due date?
Even when paraphrasing, APA requires this to give credit to the original author.
What is an in-text citation?