APA 7th Edition Formatting
´APA uses the author date system.
´For student papers:
´Running head is not required.
´Abstract is not required.
´Variety of fonts accepted but font needs to be the same throughout paper.
´Bias free language—see Chapter 5 in APA 7th Ed. Manual.
´One space after a period.
´Highlight words with quotations not italics.
´Headings are in bold.
(APA, 2020 & Purdue Owl, 2019)
APA 7th Edition Changes
´Publisher location is not included.
´Stoneman, R. (2008). Alexander the Great: A life in legend. Yale University Press.
´In-text citation sources with 3 or more authors are shortened to first author’s name followed by “et al.” (Smith et al., 2020).
´Up to 20 authors instead of 7 are included for each source in Reference List.
´Pegion, K., Kirtman, B. P., Becker, E., Collins, D. C., LaJoie, E., Burgman, R., Bell, R., DelSole, R., Min, D., Zhu, Y., Li, W., Sinsky, E., Guan, H., Gottschalck, J., Metzger, E. J., Barton, N. P., Achuthavarier, D., Marshak, J., Koster, R., . . . Kim, H. (2019). The subseasonal experiment (SubX): A multimodel subseasonal prediction experiment. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 100(10), 2043-2061. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0270.1
´DOIs are formatted the same as URLs
´Drollinger, T., Comer, L. B., & Warrington, P. T. (2006). Development and validation of the active empathetic listening scale. Psychology & Marketing, 23(2), 161-180. https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.20105
´Do not include “Retrieved from” before a URL on Reference List unless source is unarchived—see APA manual for details.
´Price, D. (2018, March 23). Laziness does not exist. Medium. https://humanparts.medium.com/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e312d01
´No running head on title page.
´One space between sentences.
´References title heading on reference list is in bold.
´(APA, 2020 & Purdue Owl, 2019)
