2. What is APA?
• American Psychological
APA is the most Association
commonly used
format for • The publication Manual of
manuscripts in the American Psychological
the Social
Sciences Association (6th ed., 2010) is
cited in these tutorials.
3. APA STYLE
• The Learning Objects for the APA
Format & Style are broken into three
sections:
1 – General Document Guidelines
2 – Page Structure
3 – Text Citations
4. SECTION 1
• The basic requirements of an APA
paper (research, essay, etc.) will be
explained in Section 1.
5. SECTION 2
• Will cover the Page Structure of an
APA paper. Title, Abstract, Body, and
References
6. SECTION 3
• Text Citations – the real FUN part of
an APA paper. How to properly cite
what references you used for your
paper.
7. TO BE CONTINUED…
• Go on to Section 1 to find out how
to set up your paper the APA style
