Apa Publication Style For Research Reports In Psychology Page 8

APA STYLE FOR RESEARCH REPORTS

Appendix

Additional APA-style Writing Tips

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8 1/2 X 11 inch good quality paper

Use 1 inch margins

All text double-spaced

Start References on new page

No low resolution printers

No handwritten corrections

Indent paragraphs five letter spaces (this can be more than five space bar strikes on a

word processor program)

No hyphenated broken words

Left margin justification for body of text

Do not right justify - leave right margin broken

Number all pages except figures in upper right margin with short title (see Appendix A)

Don’t forget to include a Running head on the Title Page

Include a separate page for figure captions

Correctly present numbers, including statistical copy

Use the metric system for all measurements

Use past tense to describe aspects of the study

Avoid sexist language

Spell check your work

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