From the BHS Reading and Writing Handbook

FORMATTING IN APA

GENERAL GUIDELINES• Typed

• Double Spaced

• 1 inch margins

• 12 point font

RUNNING HEADER• Page number should be flush right

• On the left margin, type:

• Running Head: YOUR TITLE

• Title of your essay should be in all caps

TITLE PAGE• Centered on the page, place your title

• Below your title, type your name

• Below your name, type your institution name (Brunswick High School)

• Finally, type the date in the following format: day month year

ABSTRACT

IN TEXT CITATIONS• Use the author-date-page number method of in-text citation

• Example (Jones, 1998, p. 25)

• Place your period after the parantheses if the quote is at the end of the sentence

REFERENCES PAGE• Includes all sources used to write the essay

• Will be placed at the end of the essay on its own page

• Title the page References

• List all sources alphabetically by author

• Double space the list

• Indent all lines after the first line of each reference

SAMPLE REFERENCES PAGE

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS…• Ask me

• See the Reading and Writing handbook on the first page of our class website

• Check the Purdue OWL website

• http://owl.english.purdue.edu/