APA Formatting and Style Guide
This is the formatting guide put out by the American Psychological Association and one which more and more is becoming the accepted style over the MLA in colleges. It is a very good idea for you to familiarize yourself with this format of documentation.
1. Every APA paper has a cover page that looks like the following and will be discussed in the tutorial below.
2. Every APA style paper has an abstract as the second part of the paper, which serves as a road map for what will be discussed in the paper. The following web site will provide an example and overview on writing an abstract.
http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/essays/abstract.html
3. The reference page in an APA style paper should appear as the following picture shows because there is a definite difference for each type of source:
4. In APA there is a certain formatting that must be present or the paper canbe rejected.The following demonstrates the formatting:
5. The following website provides a good reference on the information and what it should look like in the reference section of the paper:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
6. The following tutorials will give you a great deal of information on the style and how to create a paper in APA.
Moles' Law for Citing APA
Law One If you use a statistic, cite it.
Law Two If you reference a study, cite it.
Law Three If you quote something, cite it.
LawFour If you make a specific reference to an idea not your own, cite it.
Law Five If you are not certain, cite it.
