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Business and Economics: Formatting the APA 7th Paper

General Paper Guidelines

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

 

Student Paper

Heading Levels

How to Set Up Table of Contents and Headings

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."

Student Paper Set-Up-APA 7th (American Psychological Association)

 

Paper leaning on lap top computerImage 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 (/).

APA Student Paper Templates

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.

How to Format the Title Page