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APA Style

PSYCH 134

Adapted from OWL Purdue

General Guidelines

 Double spaced with 1-inch margins on all sides

 Page numbers in upper right-hand corner

 Running head in upper left-hand corner

 (^) All capital letters  (^) Shortened version of the title  (^) Cannot exceed 50 characters (including spacing and punctuation)

 Times New Roman Font

 Title on both title page and top of first page of the paper (bolded)

Abstract

 Should be on its own page

 The word “Abstract” should be bolded and centered at top of

page

 Next line is where you start the actual abstract

 (^) Flush left (no ident)  (^) Single paragraph, double spaced  (^) Concise summary of your paper  (^) Research topic, research questions, findings, etc.  (^) Should be around 250 words

In-Text Citations

 Author-date method

 (^) (Crawford, 2021).  (^) Note that the punctuation for the sentence comes after the citation

 If you are referring to an idea, findings, etc. from another paper,

you MUST use an in-text citation

 If you quote verbatim, you should use quotations and include

page numbers in the in-text citation

 (^) “Verbatim quote” (Crawford, 2021, p. 200).  (^) Quotes 40 words or longer should be blocked  (^) New line, each line indented, no quotation marks  (^) Just don’t use quotes 

In-Text Citations

 (^) It’s okay to cite organizations or diagnostic manuals  (^) This can be helpful for citing diagnostic criteria or epidemiological statistics  (^) E.g., The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; DSM– 5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013)…  (^) Note that the above includes the abbreviation DSM-5 and the citation. This is fine to do.  (^) If you abbreviate things, you should use the full name the first time it appears  (^) Two or more citations at once:  (^) Alphabetical, separated by a semi-colon  (^) (Crawford, 2021; Fisher, 2015)  (^) If citing two works with same author last name, include first initial  (^) (C. Crawford, 2021) vs. (D. Crawford, 2015)

Reference Page

 New page at end of paper

 The word “References” should be centered at top of the page and

bolded

 Everything is still double spaced

 All lines after the first line of each entry should be indented

 Last names first

 (^) E.g., Crawford, C.M.

 Last names and first/middle initials for all authors for a work up to

and including 20 authors

 (^) If more than 20 authors, include first 19, then ellipses, then final author name

Reference Page Examples

 (^) Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2017). The next big five inventory (BFI-2): Developing and assessing a hierarchical model with 15 facets to enhance bandwidth, fidelity, and predictive power. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 113 (1), 117- 143. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp  (^) Nguyen, T., Carnevale, J. J., Scholer, A. A., Miele, D. B., & Fujita, K. (2019). Metamotivational knowledge of the role of high-level and low-level construal in goal-relevant task performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117 (5), 879-899. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspa  (^) Pegion, K., Kirtman, B. P., Becker, E., Collins, D. C., LaJoie, E., Burgman, R., Bell, R., DelSole, R., Min, D., Zhu, Y., Li, W., Sinsky, E., Guan, H., Gottschalck, J., Metzger, E. J., Barton, N. P., Achuthavarier, D., Marshak, J., Koster, R.,... Kim, H. (2019). The subseasonal experiment (SubX): A multimodel subseasonal prediction experiment. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society , 100 (10), 2043- 2061. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0270.  (^) American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.books.

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