Sample Apa Paper For Students Interested In Learning Apa Style 6th Edition Page 4
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Remember to cite your sources often in the Introduction and throughout the manuscript.
Articles and books are cited the same way in the text, yet they appear different on the References
page. For example, an article by Cronbach and Meehl (1955) and a book by Bandura (1986) are
written with the authors’ names and the year of the publication in parentheses. However, if you
look on the References page they look a little different. Remember that APA style does not use
footnotes or anything like that for citations. Two other things about citations are important. When
a citation is written inside parentheses (e.g., Cronbach & Meehl, 1959), an ampersand is used
between authors’ names instead of the word “and.” Second, when citing an author’s work using
quotations, be sure to include a page number. For example, Rogers (1961) once wrote that two
important elements of a helping relationship are “genuineness and transparency” (p. 37). Notice
that the page number is included here. Unless a direct quote is taken from a source, the page
number is not included.
The last section of the Introduction states the purpose of the research. The purpose can
usually be summarized in a few sentences. Hypotheses are also included here at the end of this
section. State your hypotheses as predictions (e.g., “I predicted that...”), and try to avoid using
passive tense (e.g., “It was predicted that...”). You will notice that hypotheses are written in past
tense because you are describing a study you have finished.
Method
The Method section is the second of four main parts of an empirical paper (see Section
2.06 of the APA [2010] manual). (Be aware that some papers are reviews of the literature and
therefore would not have a separate Method section.) There are typically three or four major
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