APA Sample

APA Sample

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Getting Started with Sixth Edition APA Style
Christine Vandenhouten
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay







Abstract
The abstract, according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (American Psychological Association [APA], 2010), “is a brief, comprehensive summary of the contents of the article; it allows readers to survey the contents of an article quickly and, like a title, it enables persons interested in the document to retrieve it from abstracting and indexing databases” (p. 25). It should also indicate the importance of the article—what makes it worth reading. Abstract length depends on the word limit of the journal to which you would like to submit your paper, so APA suggests “a range of 150-250 words” (p. 27). As shown above, the word “Abstract” is centered above the abstract text, and the entire text is double-spaced. Note that the first sentence is not indented, but begins flush left. Remember that key words from the abstract are used as index words for library search programs. The main concerns of this "Getting Started" sample are providing samples of paper basics, demonstrating the best way to set up the two running heads in Microsoft Word, and presenting an overview of the contents of the new edition of APA.
Getting Started with Sixth Edition APA Style
The sixth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (American Psychological Association [APA], 2010) presents a style almost as clunky as those of the preceding editions, but on the plus side, some of its sections (particularly those on grammar) have been reduced, other sections have been reorganized, and new formatting features make it easier to read. This paper provides examples of manuscript title page, abstract page, first text page, running heads, and citation and reference style, as well as an overview of the new APA manual as a whole. It also provides, in the first section, clear-cut instructions for how...

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