APA Formatting Essay

APA Formatting

Susie Student

University of Phoenix

All margins are one inch. The header on the first page is different than the header on all subsequent pages. The title in the headers is all caps. The title page is comprised of the title of the essay in uppercase and lowercase letters, your name, and the name of your institution. APA requires everything is double spaced (as cited in Kyles, 2012). Kyles (2012) also states that everything in APA is double paced. The three elements of the title page are centered in the upper half of the page. There are more rules regarding the title; for more information, I recommend APA Web site. There are many rules for formatting in-text citations. There are…show more content…
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