Principles of Accounting I Lab.-DA Gisselle M. Moshanko

APA Style Guide from Purdue OWL APA Style Guide from Purdue OWL

• General APA Guidelines
 Your essay should be typed, double-spaced on standard-sized paper (8.5″ x 11″) with 1″

margins on all sides. You should use a clear font that is highly readable. APA recommends

using 12 pt. Times New Roman font.

Include apage header(also known as the “running head”) at the top of every page. To create

apage header/running head, insert page numbers flush right. Then type “TITLE OF YOUR

PAPER” in the header flush left using all capital letters. Therunning headis a shortened

version of your paper’s title and cannot exceed 50 characters including spacing and

punctuation.

Major Paper Sections

Your essay should includefourmajor sections: theTitle Page,Abstract,Main Body,

and References.

Title Page 
 The title page should contain thetitleof the paper, theauthor’s name, and theinstitutional

affiliation. Include the page header (described above) flush left with the page number flush

right at the top of the page. Please note that on the title page, your page header/running head

should look like this:

Running head: TITLE OF YOUR PAPER

Pages after the title page should have a running head that looks like this:

TITLE OF YOUR PAPER

After consulting with publication specialists at the APA, OWL staff learned that the APA 6th

edition, first printing sample papers haveincorrectexamples of Running heads on pages after

the title page. Thislinkwill take you to the APA site where you can find a complete list of all the

errors in the APA’s 6th edition style guide.

Type yourtitlein upper and lowercase letters centered in the upper half of the page. APA

recommends that your title be no more than 12 words in length and that it should not contain

abbreviations or words that serve no purpose. Your title may take up one or two lines. All text

on the title page, and throughout your paper, should be double-spaced.

Beneath the title, type theauthor’s name: first name, middle initial(s), and last name. Do not

use titles (Dr.) or degrees (Ph.D.).

Beneath the author’s name, type theinstitutional affiliation, which should indicate the

location where the author(s) conducted the research.

APA Title Page

Abstract
 Begin a new page. Your abstract page should already include thepage header(described

above). On the first line of the abstract page, center the word “Abstract” (no bold, formatting,

italics, underlining, or quotation marks).

Beginning with the next line, write a concise summary of the key points of your research. (Do

not indent.) Your abstract should contain at least your research topic, research questions,

participants, methods, results, data analysis, and conclusions. You may also include possible

implications of your research and future work you see connected with your findings. Your

abstract should be a single paragraph double-spaced. Your abstract should be between 150

and 250 words.

You may also want to list keywords from your paper in your abstract. To do this, indent as you

would if you were starting a new paragraph, typeKeywords:(italicized), and then list your

keywords. Listing your keywords will help researchers find your work in databases.

APA Abstract Page

Please see ourSample APA Paperresource to see an example of an APA paper. You may also

visit ourAdditional Resourcespage for more examples of APA papers.

Reference:

Angeli, E., Wagner, J., Lawrick, E., Moore, K., Anderson, M., Soderlund, L., & Brizee, A.

(2010, May 5). General format. Retrieved from http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/

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