1 Title Name Department of Counseling, Loyola University- New Orleans COUN ???: Title Dr. (Full Name) Due Date (Month Day, Year) 2 Title Level 2 Heading Level 3 Heading Level 4 Heading Level 5 Heading Your paper begins flush to the title at the top of the page. Do not add a space between the title and first paragraph/header. Delete additional spaces between paragraphs. Word’s settings automatically add these additional spaces. To format your paper correctly, click on the small arrow to the left of “Paragraph” on the toolbar above. Make sure that your settings look like the settings shown below. There is even a button at the bottom where you can these as your default settings when starting new documents. 3 Make sure your margins are set to “normal”. Go to “Layout” on the toolbar, click on “Margins”, and then click “normal”. Make sure your page numbers begin on the first page and are in the top right corner of the header of the paper. To do this, go to “Insert”, “Page Number”, “Top of page”, “Plain Number 3”. You can double click on the header and highlight the page number if you want to change the font. Approved fonts for APA 7: 11 point Calibri, 11-point Arial, 10-point Lucida Sans Unicode, or the standard 12-point Times New Roman which is traditionally preferred. When you make in text citations, you have two options. You can list it at the beginning of a sentence or end of a sentence “Stillwell (2024) stated …” or “Researchers have found…(Stillwell, 2024). While I do not recommend any direct quoting, if you do use a direct quote, additionally list the page number (Stillwell, 2024, pg. 2). Paragraphs should be 3-5 sentences. If your paragraph is less than 3 sentences, find a way to add it to another paragraph or add to it. Example Paragraph of Citing ACA Standards (Note: this is from a published document so do not copy it or that is considered plagiarism!): The ACA Code of Ethics is the primary source of ethical guidelines for all counselors, counselor educators, and supervisors. These standards assert that all counselors should be developmentally and culturally sensitive when working with clients (ACA Standards A.2.c, B.1.a., E.5.b., E.8., F.2.b., F.7.c., F.11.c., H.5.d; Ginicola et al., 2017). Based on the ethical code, counselors have a moral obligation to acknowledge clients’ autonomy, facilitate their well-being, and respect the Hippocratic oath of all individuals in the medical field to do no harm (Romig et al., 2018). This code of ethics also requires clinicians to be aware of biases with historical contexts regarding diagnosis (ACA Standard E.5.c.; Ginicola et al., 2017); as the SOGI 4 population has been pathologized by the mental health field in numerous ways, from homosexuality being a mental illness according to the original DSM (The Committee on Nomenclature and Statistics of the America Psychiatric Association, 1952) to gender dysphoria in the DSM-5 (APA, 2013), these historical biases need to be acknowledged when working with SOGI clients. Citing personal communications in the text Because readers cannot retrieve the information in personal communications, personal communications are not included in the reference list; they are cited in the text only. Give the initial(s) and surname of the communicator, and provide as exact a date as possible, using the following formats: Narrative citation: E.-M. Paradis (personal communication, August 8, 2019) Parenthetical citation: (T. Nguyen, personal communication, February 24, 2020) 5 References See APA Manual or Owl Purdue online for citations by type American Counseling Association. (2014). 2014 ACA code of ethics. https://www.counseling.org/knowledge-center American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596 Ratts, M. J., Singh, A. A., Nassar-McMillan, S., Butler, S. K., & McCullough, J. R. (2016). Multicultural and social justice counseling competencies: Guidelines for the counseling profession. Journal of Multicultural Counseling & Development, 44(1), 28–48. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmcd.12035
