Your running head will be in the top margin, as will the page number, which should be on the top right of the page. Delete the paragraph symbols (¶) at the ends of the lines, keeping one ¶ symbol at the end of each citation. Use your word-processing program's header feature to create your running head and don't adjust the spacing. If a line that should be indented is not, click the Show/Hide button (¶) in the Paragraph group on the Home tab. Use one space after a period, unless otherwise directed. Some changes from the previous edition (APA 6) include: Running Heads are not required for student papers but if one is used it now only contains a page number and a shortened paper title.
Running HeadĪPA style requires a running head, which is a shortened title listed at the top left of every page. As of 2020 Sullivan University will use APA Publication Manual 7 for citations. Microsoft Word does not have a setting to automatically put in two spaces at.
Put two spaces after the period for each sentence in the body of the paper (Note, use only one space after a period in your references at the end of the paper). Under Spacing, Line Spacing, select Double and then click OK. According to the American Psychological Association website, the illustrated sample papers in the APA Publication Manual may not appear to have 1 inch margins, but these sample pages are intended to illustrate other guidelines and should not be interpreted as scale models. Next to the word Paragraph click on the arrow. The 6th edition of the APA Publication Manual requires each page of your paper to have a uniform 1 inch or 2.54 cm margins on the left, right, top and bottom of every page, including the title page, abstract and references pages.