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How to write a winning academic term paper in APA format


Formatting and adjusting the references will be a very important part of your paper. On the stages, when the most important goal of writing a paper is to gain some writing skills, your professor will pay attention to how you understand and use the citation style. If you have a paper in APA format to do and you are afraid that your command over this style is not good enough, check out our guidelines and you won't have any problems with it anymore.

Style of writing

APA style requires not only the specific formatting guidelines, it will also require you to use the words in a specific words. That is why you have to study the guidelines before actually writing the paper.

General formatting

This is what will fall in the eye of the professor at the first minute. Check the following guidelines:

Headings

Writing a paper in APA style requires including headings of a specific format. There are five possible levels of headings and the properties you shall use in them.

  1. Centered, written in bold, each word starts with the capital letter.
  2. Aligned to the left, in bold, each word starts with the capital letter.
  3. In bold.
  4. In bold and italics, requires a period in the end of the sentence.
  5. In italics, requires a period in the end of the sentence.

Citation and references

This will probably be the most important part of your guide to the APA style. To complete a successful APA paper, you will need to create a reference page, where you will put all the sources you used in an alphabetical order. To put in-text citations, use the author-date model. You will need to state the surname of the author and the date when it was published after the citation. For a direct quote, also put the number of page.