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Writing Center
APA Style Guidelines
Basic Rules for Formatting a Paper
Headings
Headings indicate the organization of the paper and establish the importance
of each topic. Most papers will use from one to four heading levels.
The following are examples of how headings are to be typed:
Level 1 Heading
Heading 1 is centered on the page. Initial letters of all important
words are capitalized. See example.
Level 2 Heading
Heading 2 is centered on the page, is underlined and uses “title
case” as found in the Microsoft Word format menu under “change
case”.
Level 3 Heading
Heading 3 is aligned left on the page, is underlined and uses “title
case” as found in the Microsoft Word format menu under “change
case”.
Level 4 Heading
Heading 4 is indented five spaces from the left margin of the page,
is underlined and uses “sentence case” as found in the Microsoft
Word format menu under “change case”.
Example
Headings may include any of the following parts or sections of a paper:
| Heading 1 |
| Heading 1 |
| Heading 1 |
| Heading 1 |
| Heading 2 |
| Heading 3 |
| Heading 4 |
| Heading 3 |
| Heading 3 |
| Heading 2 |
| Heading 2 |
| Heading 1 |
| Heading 1 |
| Heading 1 |
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| Title |
| Abstract |
| Introduction |
| Body |
| First Section of Paper |
| First sub-section |
| First sub-sub-section |
| Second sub-section |
| Third sub-section |
| Second Section of Paper |
| Third Section of Paper |
| Conclusion |
| References |
| Appendix x |
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| Title |
| Abstract |
| Introduction |
| Literature Review |
| Design |
| Data Gathering Tools |
| Results |
| Discussion and Conclusion |
| References |
| Appendix x |
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| Heading 1 |
| Heading 1 |
| Heading 2 |
| Heading 2 |
| Heading 2 |
| Heading 2 |
| Heading 1 |
| Heading 1 |
| Heading 1 |
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