APA PAPER GUIDELINES

• An APA paper should have a one-inch margin all around and be double-spaced throughout.

• The first line of every paragraph should be indented, and all pages of the paper, including the first, should be numbered consecutively.

• Every page should have a page header (an abbreviated title in all upper-case letters) typed one-half inch from the top of the page.

• An APA paper has four sections: the title page, the abstract, the body of the paper, and the reference list:

  1. The title page (page 1) should include a running head (in all upper-case letters) at the top:

     Running Head: COUNTERFEIT GOODS

  2. The title page should also include the title of the paper (upper- and lower-case letters), your name (first name, middle initial, last name), and your school.

  3. The abstract (page 2) should be a 150- to 250-word summary of the paper. Type the word Abstract (centered); skip one line; and do not indent. After the abstract, skip one line and type Keywords (italicized and indented), followed by keywords that will help researchers find your essay in a database.

  4. The body of the paper should begin on page 3. After the title page, each page of the paper should include the running head (in all upper-case letters), typed flush left, one-half inch from the top of the page:

     COUNTERFEIT GOODS

  5. The reference list should begin on a new page, after the body of the paper. (See pages A-14–A-15 for a discussion of how to format the reference list.)

• Citations should follow APA documentation style.