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APA Template Word

This document provides a template for formatting an APA-style paper in Microsoft Word. The template includes pre-set margins, indentations, font, line spacing, and widow/orphan control. It contains placeholder text and citations to demonstrate the proper APA formatting of titles, headers, abstracts, block quotes, and references. The template is meant to be saved under a new name and customized with the user's own paper elements while retaining the underlying APA formatting.

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APA Template Word

This document provides a template for formatting an APA-style paper in Microsoft Word. The template includes pre-set margins, indentations, font, line spacing, and widow/orphan control. It contains placeholder text and citations to demonstrate the proper APA formatting of titles, headers, abstracts, block quotes, and references. The template is meant to be saved under a new name and customized with the user's own paper elements while retaining the underlying APA formatting.

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Yourheader1

Runninghead:TITLESHORTENEDTOFEWERTHAN50CHARACTERS

YourTitleGoesHere

JohnQ.Student

WrightStateUniversity
Yourheader2

Abstract

Useasmanykeywordsaspossibleinyourabstract.Limitits

lengthto960characters.Foranempiricalstudy,use100to120

wordstodescribetheproblem,participants,method,findings,

andconclusions.Foratheoreticalorreviewarticle,use75to

100wordstostatethearticle'stopic,thesis,scope,sources,

andconclusions.Defineallabbreviationsanduniqueterms.Spell

outnamesoftestsanddrugs;usegenericdrugnames.Use

paraphrases,notquotations.Conservespacebyusing

abbreviations;expressnumbersasdigits.
Yourheader3

YourTitleGoesHere

Thistemplatecontainspresettingsfortheessential

featuresofAPAformat:margins,indentations,font,line

spacing,andwidow/orphancontrol,asexplainedinTheResearch

Process(pp.160,19697).Tousethistemplate,select"File

SaveAs"andsavethetemplateunderanewname.Thenusetype

overinsertionstoreplacetheheader,informationblock,and

title.Finally,replacethetextinthebodyofthetemplateby
usingtypeoverinsertions,ordeletethebodytextinblocks.

(Hint:Leavethesampleblockquotationinplacetopreserveits

paragraphindentationasamodel.Usetypeoverinsertionsinthe

bibliographytopreservethehangingindentations.)Here,then,

isasampleblockquotation:

Aquotationthatoccupiesmorethanfourtypedlinesshould

beindentedfivespacesfromtheleftmargin.Inastudent

paper,ablockquotationmaybesingleordoublespaced,

withoutquotationmarksatthebeginningandendofthe

quotedmaterial.Itsrightmarginshouldbesetat1".Its

parentheticalcitationshouldbeplacedaftertheblock's

lastitemofpunctuation.(Smith,1988,p.16)

Isuggestprintingthistemplatetomakesurethatyour

printerisproperlyconfiguredtoproduceanAPApage.Itshould

producenomorethan27linesperpage,plustheheader.Thetext

blockshouldbesurroundedby1"marginsonallfoursides.Each

pageshouldhaveamanuscriptpageheader,nottobeconfused

withthe"runninghead"describedintheAPAPublicationManual

(sec.5.15).
Yourheader4

References

Doe,J.Q.(1999,12August).Titleofanarticle.Titleofa

Magazine,212,23.

Doe,J.R.(1987).Titleofanarticle.TitleofaScholarly

Journal,35,112128.

Lastname,F.(1998).Titleofasamplebook.City:Publisher.

Maner,M.(1999,14April).Womenandeighteenthcentury

literature.RetrievedAugust9,1999fromtheWorldWide

Web:http://www.wright.edu/~martin.maner/18cwom99.html

[DesignedforWord97.]

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