Formatting Basics
Parts of APA Manuscripts
Citations & References
Types of Articles
APA Paper Main Body
100

The correct margins for APA style 

What is 1 inch margins?

100

Should be no more than 250 words

What is the Abstract?

100

Shen (2019) in parenthetical citation

What is (Shen, 2019)?

100

A research article based on data

What is an empirical article?

100

Introduces the topic/issue and states the argument/thesis

What is the Introduction?

200

The correct spacing for APA style

What is double spaced?

200

A shortened version of the title in all CAPS

What is the running head?

200

Shen and colleagues (2019) in parenthetical citation

What is (Shen et al., 2019)?

200

Two types of empirical research articles (based on whether data contain numbers)

What is qualitative and quantitative?

200

Provides possible explanations for findings

What is the Discussion?

300

In the top right corner of every page

What is the "page number"?

300

No more than 50 characters including spaces

What is the running head?

300

(Shen & Seo, 2019) in non-parenthetical citation

What is Shen and Seo (2019)? 

300

Observation or interview of a small number of participants?

What is qualitative (empirical) research?

300

Presents summary of data and/or statistics

What is the Results?

400

Ideally should be less than 12 words

What is the title?

400

Listed on the title page

What is title, author, affiliation, (course number and name, instructor name, and submission date)

400

Italicized and every word capitalized

What is the journal title?

400

Driven by theory, based on hypothesis, involving a large sample

What is quantitative (empirical) research?

400

Describes participants, procedure, and measures?

What is the Method?

500

Centered, Bold, Title Case

What is level-1 heading?

500

All parts of an APA manuscript

What is title page, abstract, main body (introduction, method, results, discussion), references, tables and figures?

500

In sentence case (within a reference)

What is the article title?

500

Systematic review with statistical analyses

What is a meta-analysis?

500

Parts of an empirical article main body

What is Introduction, Method, Results, Discussion?

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