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General Guidelines

Paper Format
From apastyle.apa.org. Brief sections with guidance for: order of pages, title page setup, font, page header, line spacing, margins, paragraph alignment and indentation, headings, sample papers, accessibility of APA style.
Style and Grammar Guidelines
Includes paper formatting details as well as advice on citation, paraphrasing, using bias-free language, and more.
Academic Writer Tutorial: Basics of 7th Edition APA Style
Quickly and easily browse this tutorial from the American Psychological Association to find answers to your APA questions.
APA Style Workshop
Purdue Online Writing Lab. Provides brief basic information about APA Style (7th edition). Follow the links for additional examples.

Samples and Templates

These samples (and several others) are also available as MS Word documents for use as templates. Use the APA style web page link below to access them.

More sample papers (from apastyle.apa.org)
Student samples include: discussion post student paper, literature review student paper, and quantitative study student paper. Professional samples include: literature review professional paper, mixed methods professional paper, qualitative professional paper, quantitative professional paper, and review professional paper.

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