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Running head: TITLE SHORTENED TO FEWER THAN 50 CHARACTERS

Your Title Goes Here

John Q. Student

Wright State University

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Abstract

Use as many key words as possible in your abstract. Limit its

length to 960 characters. For an empirical study, use 100 to 120

words to describe the problem, participants, method, findings,

and conclusions. For a theoretical or review article, use 75 to

100 words to state the article's topic, thesis, scope, sources,

and conclusions. Define all abbreviations and unique terms.

Spell out names of tests and drugs; use generic drug names. Use

paraphrases, not quotations. Conserve space by using

abbreviations; express numbers as digits.

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Your Title Goes Here

This template contains pre-settings for the essential

features of APA format: margins, indentations, font, line

spacing, and widow/orphan control, as explained in The Research

Process (pp. 160, 196-97). To use this template, select "File--

Save As" and save the template under a new name. Then use type-

over insertions to replace the header, information block, and

title. Finally, replace the text in the body of the template by

using type-over insertions, or delete the body text in blocks.

(Hint: Leave the sample block quotation in place to preserve its

paragraph indentation as a model. Use type-over insertions in

the bibliography to preserve the hanging indentations.) Here,

then, is a sample block quotation:

A quotation that occupies more than four typed lines should

be indented five spaces from the left margin. In a student

paper, a block quotation may be single or double spaced,

without quotation marks at the beginning and end of the

quoted material. Its right margin should be set at 1". Its

parenthetical citation should be placed after the block's

last item of punctuation. (Smith, 1988, p. 16)

I suggest printing this template to make sure that your

printer is properly configured to produce an APA page. It should

produce no more than 27 lines per page, plus the header. The

text block should be surrounded by 1" margins on all four sides.

Each page should have a manuscript page header, not to be

confused with the "running head" described in the APA

Publication Manual (sec. 5.15).

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References

Doe, J. Q. (1999, 12 August). Title of an article. Title of a

Magazine, 212, 23.

Doe, J. R. (1987). Title of an article. Title of a Scholarly

Journal, 35, 112-128.

Lastname, F. (1998). Title of a sample book. City: Publisher.

Maner, M. (1999, 14 April). Women and eighteenth-century

literature. Retrieved August 9, 1999 from the World Wide

Web: http://www.wright.edu/~martin.maner/18cwom99.html

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