Guidelines to APA Style Paper Writing
The American Psychological Association publication manual started out as an article in 1929. Since then it has been sculpted to advance scholarship through setting standards for scientific communication. The creators managed to establish a style of writing that would uniform the many components of scientific writing to increase reading comprehension. Since then the APA style has grown from a simple set of style rules to an authoritative source on all aspects of scholarly writing. The rules are drawn from a vast amount of psychological literature. The sixth edition was the most recently published APA manual, it is a condensed manual of over 30 years of editing and adding rules to continue the advancement of scholarship. This paper will discuss the information found between two YouTube videos explaining the setup of APA style.
Page Settings
Before beginning a paper in APA style, it is best to insure all page settings are correct. Selecting you margins always a good place to start, according to the manual the margins must be 1-inch margins. This is the normal setting in the margins section of Microsoft Word (Taylor, 2009). Now you want to make sure your font is setup properly; the font should be Times New …show more content…
For a book reference the author(s) name should be put in by last name, comma, first initial followed by a period. If there are two authors list the names in the order they follow on the book, but do not spell out the word “and” instead use the ampersand (Phillips,2012). Next listed would be the publication year in parenthesis, followed by a period. The title of the book is listed next, it should be italicized and followed by a period. In accordance with the APA style only the first word of the book title will be capitalized. Next is the city followed by a comma the state followed with a colon and the