Apa_Style

Apa Style Title of Paper The introduction of the paper begins here. Double-space throughout the paper, including the title page, abstract, body of the document, and references. The body of the paper begins on a new page (page 3). Subsections of the body of the paper do not begin on a new page. The title of the paper (in uppercase and lowercase letters) is centered on the first line below the manuscript page header. The introduction (which is not labeled) begins on the line following the paper title. Headings are used to organize the document and reflect the relative importance of sections. For example, many empirical research articles utilize Methods, Results, Discussion, and References headings. In turn, the Method section often has subheadings of Participants, Apparatus, and Procedure. Main headings (when the paper has either one or two levels of headings) use centered uppercase and lowercase letters (e.g., Method, Results). Subheadings (when the paper has two levels of headings) are italicized and use flush left, uppercase and lowercase letters (e.g., Participants, Apparatus). Text citations. Source material must be documented in the body of the paper by citing the author(s) and date(s) of the sources. This is to give proper authors, paper, source, page, first, title, cited, references, following, publication, line, headings, body, begins, parenthesis, year, words, uppercase, two, time, structure, should, sentence, reference, quotation, part, new, lowercase, letters, formal, et, document, centered, al, three