Step-by-Step APA Format

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Step-by-StepAPA Format
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What is APA Format? Why do we have to use it???

• APA Format is used by individuals who study the
  social sciences.
• We are using this format right now due to our
  research for our Science Fair projects.
• In order to complete the written essay correctly,
  we need to make sure we do a few things. ..

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First thing.

• Make sure your paper is TYPED in the following
  format
• Size 12 Font on the ENTIRE documenteven your
  name.
• Font Style Times New Roman (ONLY)
• Double Spaced (Hold CtrlA, then Ctrl2)
• 1 margins on top, bottom, left, right side of
  the document
• Must only be in BLACK INK

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Creating a Reference List

• To create your Reference List, you need to make
  sure you have filled out the Bibliography
  Worksheet I gave you before we began writing our
  essays.
• You were to fill in all of the information you
  could find based on where you gathered your
  research from.

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Creating Citations/ In-Text Citations

• Go to the following website http//citationmachin
  e.net/index2.php?reqstyleid2newstyle2stylebox
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• Using your Bibliography Worksheet, begin creating
  citations.
• First, select what type of resource you have. Is
  it a book? Website? Magazine article? Select
  whichever it is.

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Next

• Begin filling in the areas that need filling in.
• To show you an example, Im going to create a
  citation for the following website
  http//kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/food/ecoli.
  html
• As you can see, there is no specified author or a
  date when it was published. Thats alright
  though, leave those areas blank.
• What I DO have is the title of the webpage, and
  the URL

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The results

• After inserting the information I do have and
  clicking Make Citation, I have the following
  citation
• E.coli. (n.d.). Retrieved from
  http//kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/f
  ood/ecoli.html
• And below that, the in-text citation of
• ("E.coli," )

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IMPORTANT

• Make sure that FOR EVERY CITATION you create, you
  COPY AND PASTE the citations AND in-text
  citations into a Word Document and SAVE IT
  IMMEDIATELY
• Otherwise you will lose all of the citations
  created and have to start all over again.

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• Continue to do this for EVERY resource you have.
• Again, make sure you CP these citations AND
  in-text citations into a Word document and SAVE.
  You will need this for the next steps.

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References

• Create a new word document
• Title this document References
• Make sure the document is in
• Times New Roman (Font)
• 12 Point Font (Size)
• 1 Margins (all around)
• Black Ink

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On the References page, do the following

• Copy Paste each citation you gathered but make
  sure you do each in ALPHABETICAL ORDER.
• If you have a citation that extends past two
  typed lines, TAB the second line to indent it.

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On my TeacherWeb, Ive uploaded an example
Reference page

• Refer to the following website
• http//teacherweb.com/IL/MCCFulltimeSchool/6th-7th
  -8th-English/photo8.aspx
• Note the margins and font/font size
• Also, it is placed in alphabetical order. You
  can explore the sites on the Reference page for
  yourself!