Your header Running head: TITLE SHORTENED TO FEWER THAN 50 CHARACTERS Your Title Goes Here John Q. Student Wright State University 1 Your header 2 Abstract Use as many key words as possible in your abstract. Limit its length to 960 characters. For an empirical study, use 100 to 120 words to describe the problem, participants, method, findings, and conclusions. For a theoretical or review article, use 75 to 100 words to state the article's topic, thesis, scope, sources, and conclusions. Define all abbreviations and unique terms. Spell out names of tests and drugs; use generic drug names. Use paraphrases, not quotations. Conserve space by using abbreviations; express numbers as digits. Your header 3 Your Title Goes Here This template contains pre-settings for the essential features of APA format: margins, indentations, font, line spacing, and widow/orphan control, as explained in The Research Process (pp. 160, 196-97). To use this template, select "File-Save As" and save the template under a new name. Then use typeover insertions to replace the header, information block, and title. Finally, replace the text in the body of the template by using type-over insertions, or delete the body text in blocks. (Hint: Leave the sample block quotation in place to preserve its paragraph indentation as a model. Use type-over insertions in the bibliography to preserve the hanging indentations.) Here, then, is a sample block quotation: A quotation that occupies more than four typed lines should be indented five spaces from the left margin. In a student paper, a block quotation may be single or double spaced, without quotation marks at the beginning and end of the quoted material. Its right margin should be set at 1". Its parenthetical citation should be placed after the block's last item of punctuation. (Smith, 1988, p. 16) I suggest printing this template to make sure that your printer is properly configured to produce an APA page. It should produce no more than 27 lines per page, plus the header. The text block should be surrounded by 1" margins on all four sides. Each page should have a manuscript page header, not to be confused with the "running head" described in the APA Publication Manual (sec. 5.15). Your header References Doe, J. Q. (1999, 12 August). Title of an article. Title of a Magazine, 212, 23. Doe, J. R. (1987). Title of an article. Title of a Scholarly Journal, 35, 112-128. Lastname, F. (1998). Title of a sample book. City: Publisher. Maner, M. (1999, 14 April). Women and eighteenth-century literature. Retrieved August 9, 1999 from the World Wide Web: http://www.wright.edu/~martin.maner/18cwom99.html [Designed for Word 97.] 4
