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The APA 6th Edition Academic Style The APA 6th Edition Academic StyleAPA evolved from the Harvard parenthetical referencing system, the American Psychological Association, composed of psychologists, anthropologists and other social scientists convened and worked to develop the standard APA citation style in 1929, essentially breaking free from the Harvard system. It, however, adopted some Harvard attributes.Here are the characteristics of an APA Reference page:Quite similar to Harvard, References is the title of Harvard reference list. References should be on the center of the first line. The APA Reference page is located on a separate page at the end of the document.Every entry starts flush left, aligned with the margin. However, the succeeding lines should be indented half an inch.In an APA Reference page, each entry should double-spacing and the same format is observed between entries.Your APA Reference page should be in alphabetical order. The list should be based on the authors last names.The authors last name co mes first, then the initials. If the author has a middle name, its initial should be included.The titles for the following should be italicized: books, audio-visual material, Internet sources and newspapers, and the title, and volume number of magazines and journals.The titles of the following should not be italicized: newspaper articles, essays, poems, short stories, chapters of an Internet document, magazines, and journals.Capitalize only the first letter and proper nouns in these works: essays, books, websites, poems, reports, chapters from books. Examples of proper nouns are names of people, places, and organizations.When citing multiple authors, use an ampersand () to denote and. For example: Johnson, K. Kemp, V.The APA Style Cover PageThis is how your cover page should look like should your academic assignment requires you to utilize a cover page:Note that an APA style cover page has a format different from the rest of the paper, specifically the running head. See this step-b y-step guide for your APA cover page:Step 1.An APA cover page usually has three items by default - the title of your paper, your name, and the name of your university. Some universities require its students to add the date of submission as well as the total word count of the paper on the cover page.Step 2.Adjust your page number. This is where you will add your running head.Step 3.Adjust the running head. Note that the word Running head should only be visible on the cover page. The rest of the should not have the said word, leaving just the title capitalized.This is how it should look like.The APA In-Text CitationHere are the guidelines on how to perform APA in-text citation. In APA in-text citation, the traditional authors last name-date of publication is followed. Remember that all these sources should also be cited in the documents reference page. This is how a standard APA in-text citation looks like:APA Rules on Capitalization, Quotes, and ItalicizationAPA Rules on Direct Quota tionsAPA Rules on Block Quotes and Paraphrasing.Note that any direct quote that exceeds 25 words must be written in block format, and anything within that count must be enclosed in quotation marks.APA Rules on In-Text Citations for Two to Six AuthorsAPA Rules on In-Text Citations for Unknown AuthorsAPA Rules on Multiple Sources In-Text Citation.Citing multiple academic sources adds credibility to the information.APA Rules on Indirect SourceAPA Rules on Citing Online Documents (without source or page number)The APA Reference PageBefore we go into the details, this is how an APA reference page should look like:APA Rules on Citing Books. Note that for six or more authors, you can simply cite the first author then use the term et al. such as (Aarons, et al., 2010).APA Rules on Book ChaptersAPA Rules on Digital Books, Dissertation, and ArtworksAPA Rules on JournalsAPA Rules on Films, Encyclopedia, Government Documents, andInterviewsAPA Rules on MagazinesAPA Rules on NewspapersAPA Rules o n other ReportsMost research papers utilize this academic style because of its clarity and simplicity, and proper referencing and source citations are of utmost importance. In some instances, failure to cite a source for a single-statement information can be considered as plagiarism. If you have any questions regarding APA style, wed be glad to talk to you.Learn the other academic styles: MLA Referencing Guide and Harvard Referencing Guide.

Do a few questions before you get to the test

For those of you taking the SAT tomorrow (and scouring the Internet for a few last-minute tips), heres a small one that could actually have a significant effect on your score. To introduce it, a personal  anecdote (notice how many time the word I appears in the following sentences). About five years ago, I was going over a students QAS score sheet from her first real SAT. She was a good  student and strong  test taker, and in fact shed  scored a 2200. It was pretty much  in line with her practice tests, but when I looked at the scoring breakdown by section, something leapt out at me: virtually every question she had gotten wrong came from the first three sections. And when I read over her essay, I saw  that it was, well†¦ Let us say it was not her best work. At that point, I put two and two together. G, I said pointedly. Were you awake when you started this test? She smiled guiltily and ducked her head, then shook it slightly. Well, that solved that mystery. Before that incident, I didnt  do much coaching about what people should and should not do on test day beyond the basic (dont stay up until 2am, dont have  two cups of coffee if you dont normally drink coffee, eat a good breakfast†¦), but that conversation made me rethink things a bit. Along with most other people, Ive never truly understood just why the College Board and the ACT should put a bunch of already stressed out, sleep-deprived teenagers through the torture of waking up at 6am on a *Saturday* to take a test that in some cases will have a  significant impact on the rest of their lives. Since it doesnt look as if that policy is going to get rethought any time soon, though,  you need to be prepared. Unless youre the lucky sort of person who can go from 0 to 100 and be totally  on the second you open that test booklet, even if youve been dozing through the (endless, endless) instructions, this for you. You cannot afford to have a warm-up period   questions from the beginning of the test count just as much as those anywhere else on the test, and you need to be in the zone  from the moment you break the seal on your test booklet. And one way to ensure that youre already in full test mode is to do a handful of questions before you get to the test. When I say a few, I mean a few. Not so many that you start to freak yourself out,  one or two easy/medium ones from each section.  You dont even need to check your answers   and in  fact, you probably  shouldnt. The goal isnt to score yourself, just to get things  working  so that the transition to starting  the test doesnt feel quite so abrupt. If your brain groans in protest, let it. At least youll get that part over without any damage. By the time you start the real thing,  youll be past that stage and able to focus much more clearly.