Prayer in the Modern Day

This document is available from the Instructional Resources Center at Antioch University Los Angeles. It has been prepared by a faculty member in the Los Angeles BA program (Don McCormick) to assist students who use Microsoft Word to write APA style papers on a Macintosh computer. The margins, type face and font are correct. They fit APA requirements that the font be 12 point, that the margins be one inch on each side and that there be no more than 27 lines of text on each page.

How to Use This

You can copy this file onto your own disk. Then, whenever you want to write a paper using APA style, you can simply make a duplicate copy of this file and write over the text in this copy with your own words, your own headings, your own title, etc. The duplicate copy retains all the handy Microsoft Word styles and all of the correct APA margins, fonts, font sizes, headings, reference formats, etc.

If you don't know about using styles in Microsoft Word, I strongly suggest that you learn--it will make your computer life a lot easier. Just ask the lab assistant in the Instructional Resource Center or consult the Microsoft Word manual.

About Headings

Below are examples of first, second and third level headings. First level headings designate the main parts of a paper. In this document (or copies of it) the Microsoft Word name for this is "Heading Level 1." Second level headings identify major divisions within the major parts. The Microsoft Word name for this style in this document is "Heading Level 2." Third level headings carve up those divisions.

First Level Heading

Here is an ordinary paragraph of text using the APA style. The margins are correct. This Microsoft Word style is called "Normal."

This is a Second Level Heading

Here is some text. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Third level heading. Third level headings are underlined phrases that begin a paragraph. Only the first letter is capitalized. There is no Microsoft Word "Style" for a third level heading.

Quotes

If you want to incorporate a long quote, you can use the Microsoft Word style below; it is called "quotes."

The problem is that when you set aside quotes in an American Psychological Association style document, you are not supposed to indent and set aside the quote like this until it is at least four lines long. This quote needs to be over four lines long. It is. It also provides an example of how to cite the author and page number. Always cite the page number with a quotation. (Ewe, 1912, p. 34)

Have you ever had an indented quote and then wanted to go back to the same paragraph but did not have a style set up that was like "normal" but did not indent the first line? Well this is it. It is called "Normal-post quotes."

Here is an example of how to cite a "short quote in a sentence" (James, 1987, p. 57). Don't forget to include the page number when you use an actual quotation from a publication.

Citations

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