Apa Style Analysis

(This version of the template published on 5 November 2012)
Paper Title
Author Name
Sullivan University
Course Number: Course Title
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Abstract
A written assignment of four pages or more must also include a separate page, following the title page, with a single paragraph of 120–175 words of abstract (less than ½ of a page). The paragraph style for this is APA 6 Abstract. The title page, abstract page (if present) and reference list do not count toward the page total for a written assignment. As a rule of thumb, write the abstract after your paper is complete. There is no need to write an abstract from scratch; you may include sentences—sentences you have written, not literal quotations of others’ writing—copied from your paper.
It does not let you enter all the required sections of an APA document in sequence. Instead, it offers all the paragraph and character styles necessary to present text in APA format. You, the author, must associate your text with the appropriate paragraph and character styles; to do this in Microsoft Word 2007 or later, use the list of Styles in the Styles area on the Home tab (see Figure 1).

Using the Running Head, Title, Headings and Normal Text
Though it is widely used for written assignments in college programs, APA style is designed for submitting scholarly papers for publication. The running head is a publisher’s term for a shortened form of the title at the top of every page, with a different format for the title page. Type the text of your running head directly in the page 1 and page 2 header.
Enter the title of your paper in two places: (a) the title page, and (b) at the top of the first page of the Introduction. The title should use title case; most words should start with an upper-case letter (APA, 2010, p. 62).
Your class instructor may require headings. Headings identify sections and subsections. The headings of different levels form an outline (APA, 2010, p. 70) of your paper’s structure and content. Your outline should include an Introduction plus more than one section. This means that every paper must have at least two headings at the highest
Once you have entered a source into the bibliography in Microsoft Word, it will appear in the reference list you create for every paper in which you site that source. For more details, search on “bibliography” in Microsoft Word help.
In Microsoft Word 2007 or later, you can create reference list entries automatically, and save them for future papers. The tools for this all appear under Citations & Bibliography on the References tab. First, check the “APA Sixth Edition” option for Style. To add a new source, use Manage Sources->New and select the type of source you wish to enter.
For a book, you will need to enter the author’s name, title, year, city and publisher. Enter the author’s last name and initials, or the list of author names and initials, in APA format (APA, 2010, p. 184). The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) provides guidelines for entering author names (Anderson et al., 2010). The online Sullivan University APA Guide at http://libguides.sullivan.edu/apa is another source of author name guidelines. The publisher’s city should be followed by a comma and the state (if in the US) or