APA STYLE
General Guidelines

• APA papers require a title page. Include the following information:
   
  • Title of Paper
  • Your Name
  • Course Title
  • Date
     
• Margins should be one inch on the top, bottom and right side.  The left margin should be 1 or 1.5 inches   
• Preferred typeface: Times Roman, 12 pt; Arial,12 pt
• Pages are numbered 1,2,3,… starting with the title page, and including reference page
• Each page must have a header consisting of one or two words of your title and the page number in the top right hand corner.
• Double-space all text through the document, including the title page and reference page
• When you want to insert a short quotation, you just include it as part of the current line.
• If you have mentioned the author in your text, you use the year of publication (and the page number when quoting something directly). For example:  One of my favorite quotes by C. S. Lewis (1984) is from his book Till We Have Faces.  It goes, "Why should your heart not dance?" (p. 96).
• If the author has not been mentioned in the text then include the author’s last name in the citation. For example: "I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road"  (Lewis, 1963, p. 6).
• When you want to quote something that is over 40 words long, then you indent the entire quotation one inch and you don’t use quotation marks around it.
• Alphabetize your references by author.  Abbreviate first and middle names.  Sample  References:

Arce, I. (2003). Flying high. NEA Today, 21 (4), 38-39. Retrieved January 21, 2003, from the Proquest database.

Dream Moods. (2003, January 6). Dream dictionary. Retrieved January 14, 2003, from http://www.dreammoods.com/dreamdictionary/c2.htm

Lewis, C. S. (1963). The great divorce. New York: Macmillan.