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General Formatting
Title Page
Abstract
Author's Note
Major Sections
100
The margins of the manuscript
What is 1 inch on all sides?
100
The abbreviated title that appears in the header
What is the running head?
100
The page number the Abstract should appear on
What is page 2?
100
The page on which the Author's Note appears
What is the title page?
100
The five major text-based sections of a manuscript
What are the abstract, introduction, results, and discussion?
200
The line spacing you need to use throughout your manuscript.
What is double-spaced? (or at least 24 points; no more than 27 lines to a page)
200
The number of characters (including spaces) the running head can contain
What is 50?
200
The range of the number of words an abstract should contain
What is 120 to 150?
200
The alignment of all elements within the Author's Note
What is centered?
200
The three typical subsections of the Method
What are Participants, Materials, and Procedure?
300
The font size you need to use throughout your manuscript
What is 12-point font?
300
The number of pages on which the words "Running head:" appear
What is 1?
300
Where the text starts in the abstract
What is flush left (no indent)?
300
The number of paragraphs contained in the Author's Note.
What is 3?
300
The heading that should appear above your Introduction
What is the title of your manuscript?
400
The preferred font for your manuscript
What is Times New Roman? (or other serif type-face)
400
The information that appears immediately below the title
What is the authors and their institutional affiliation?
400
These appear immediately below the Abstract.
What are keywords?
400
The contents of the third line of the Author's Note
What is the corresponding author's contact information?
400
The format of the Method, Results, and Discussion headings
What is centered and bolded? (Uppercase and Lowercase Heading optional)
500
The number of times you include a page break (i.e., start a section on a new page) between the Introduction, Method, Results, and Discussion sections.
What is ZERO?
500
The Word that Should be Capitalized if This Were Written in Title Case
What is That?
500
The punctuation mark that separates keywords
What is a comma?
500
What is contained in the first paragraph of the Author's Note?
What are name, department, and institution?
500
The format of the subsections of the Method
What is flush left and bolded? (Uppercase and Lowercase Heading optional)