Example One: Title Page
Instructions for developing an APA Title page:  A short title and page number should be placed in the upper right-hand corner just below the one-inch border.  The title of the paper should be placed directly in th center of the page and each element included, starting with the title should be centered also. Approximately three-quarters down the page, the writer's name appears.  Several spaces should be left blank and the course name, number, and the professor's name should appear and each line should be double-spaced. See example below.
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Writer's Name

 



Course Name

  Course Number

   Professor's Name



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Example Two: In-text citations
Instructions: In-text citations that are 40 words or more are indented as the example below; when text is paraphrased, the author's name should appear somewhere (see example below) along with the date;  text that is quoted verbatim is set off with quotation marks. At the end of the quote, close the quotation marks, no end punctuation; use a set of parenthesis to place the date in. See sample below.
Ref: example taken from A Writer's Reference, Fifth Ed., (2003)Diana Hacker, 413.

The bold, italicized sections represent different in-text citations according to APA format.

     In a later study, Kanzi's abilities to understand spoken language were shown to be similar ot those of a 2 - 1/2 - year-old human, Alia. Rumbaugh (1995) reported that "Kanzi's comprehension of over 600 novel sentences of request was very comparable to Alia's; both complied with the requests without assistance n approximately 70% of the sentences" (p. 722). A recent monograph provided examples of the kinds of sentences both Kanzi and Alia were able to understand:
         For example, the word ball occurred in 76 different sentences,
          including such different requests as "Put the leaves in your
          ball," "Show me the ball that's on TV," "Vacuum your ball," and
          "Go do ball slapping with Liz." Overall, 144 different content
          words, many of which were presented in ways that required syn-
          tactic parsing for a proper response (such as "Knife your ball"
          vs. "Put the knife in the hat"), were utilized in the study.
          (Savage-Rumbaugh et al., 2000, pp. 101-102)
    
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