Education Resources: Formatting the APA 7th Paper

General Guidelines:

• Font: APA now allows several different options for fonts, you can choose one of the following, make sure to use the pt. size specified: 
  • Calibri, 11 pt.
  • Ariel, 11 pt.
  • Lucinda Sans Unicode, 10 pt.
  • Times New Roman, 12 pt.
  • Georgia, 11 pt.
• Spacing: In general, your entire document should be double-spaced.
• Margins: Margins should be set uniformly at 1 inch on all sides.
• End of a Sentence: There only needs to be ONE space after a "period." 
• Headers:
  • Running Head: Student papers no longer require a running head.  
  • Page Numbers: Page numbers should be in the header of your document, flush right. 
• The paper should be written in the following order: 
  • Title Page
  • Abstract
  • Text
  • References
  • Footnotes
  • Tables
  • Figures
  • Appendices

According to Microsoft: "A table of contents in Word is based on the headings in your document" and "missing entries often happen because headings aren't formatted as headings."

Image Credit: Paper Format APA Style Blog. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/paper-format

Long URLs-How to

If a URL is too long to fit onto one line, try to break it at a slash (/).

The following APA 7th templates were created and adapted from:

Student Success Center
Wilmington University
New Castle
320 North DuPont Highway
New Castle, DE 19720

My thanks to the Student Success Center for allowing us to adapt these templates.