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APA Template For MS Word Updated Nov 13 2020

This document provides an example of an APA style student paper template. It includes placeholders for the title, author name, course information, and date. The document demonstrates the proper formatting for paragraphs, fonts, headings, and in-text citations. It provides examples of both narrative and parenthetical in-text citations for paraphrasing and direct quotes. The document emphasizes that every in-text citation must have a corresponding reference list entry.

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APA Template For MS Word Updated Nov 13 2020

This document provides an example of an APA style student paper template. It includes placeholders for the title, author name, course information, and date. The document demonstrates the proper formatting for paragraphs, fonts, headings, and in-text citations. It provides examples of both narrative and parenthetical in-text citations for paraphrasing and direct quotes. The document emphasizes that every in-text citation must have a corresponding reference list entry.

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Full Title of Your Paper

Student Name

Department or Program if available, Medicine Hat College

Course Number: Course Name

Instructor Name

Assignment Due Date

* For more help on student papers follow these links:


 Title Page Setup

 In-Text Citations

 Headings

 Transitional Words and Phrases

 References

 Using DOIs and URLs

* Remember to erase this note and links!


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Full Title of Your Paper

The introduction of the paper begins here. Each paragraph is indented using the “Tab” key. The

entire paper is double spaced. A variety of fonts are permitted in APA Style papers, including: 12- point

Times New Roman, 11-point Calibri, Arial, and Georgia as well as 10-point Lucida Sans Unicode and

Computer Modern. Writers are expected to use the same font throughout the paper (American

Psychological Association [APA], n.d., Font section). In addition, headings may be used to organize your

paper. As shown in the next section, this sample paper uses two levels of headings, for heading level 1:

“In-Text Citations”, and for heading level 2: “Paraphrased In Your Words”, and “Quoted Word for

Word”. Learn more in the “Headings” link located in the title page.

In-Text Citations

APA Style uses the author-date citation system, in which a brief note is included everytime

writers paraphrase, or quote from another source. In-text citations can be narrative (the author and

date are part of a sentence) OR parenthetical (the author and date are given in parentheses at the end

of a sentence). For example:

Paraphrased In Your Words

 Dyer (2013) found that bees could recognize human faces. OR

 Bees can recognize human faces (Dyer, 2013).

Quoted Word for Word

 According to Dyer (2013) “bees can recognize a target human face” (p. 609). OR

 The study concluded, “bees can recognize a target human face” (Dyer, 2013, p. 609).

Please remember, for every in-text citation in your paper, there must be a corresponding entry

in your reference list. For example, the “Dyer” and “APA” in- text citations in this sample paper must

match with a corresponding reference list entry and vice-versa. For more information refer to the “In-

Text Citations” and “References” links in the title page.


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References

American Psychological Association. (n.d.). Font. APA Style. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-

guidelines/paper-format/font

Dyer, A. (2013). Honeybee vision can recognize images of human faces. The Journal of Experimental

Biology, 31(8), 600-609. https://doi.org/10.10167/j.bioexp.29876

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