APA 7th Edition - Citations and Formatting

Font

Use any sans serif or serif font accessible to all users. Options include: 

• 11-point Calibri
• 11-point Arial
• 12-point Times New Roman
• 11-point Georgia

Use the same font throughout your paper.
Exceptions:

• Within a figure image, use a sans serif font (e.g., Arial or Calibri) with a type size between 8 and 14 points.
• When presenting a footnote in a page footer, use the default footnote settings (e.g., 10-point font with single line spacing)

Line Spacing

• Double-space all text.
• Do not add extra lines before or after headings or between paragraphs.

• On the title page, place the paper title three or four double-spaced lines down from the top of the page and add an extra line between the paper title and author names.
• Table bodies and figure images may be single-spaced, one-and-a-half-spaced, or double-spaced.
• Footnotes at the bottom of the page on which they are called out should be single-spaced.

Margins

• Use 1-in. (2.54-cm) margins on all sides.
• The page header is placed within the 1-in. margin.

Paragraph Alignment & Indentation 

• Indent the first line of every paragraph 0.5 in (use Tab function)
• Leave the remaining lines of the paragraph left-aligned

Exceptions:

• Left-align and do not indent the first line of the abstract; Level 2 and 3 headings; and table and figure numbers, titles, and notes.
• Apply a hanging indent of 0.5 in. to reference list entries using the paragraph-formatting feature of your word-processing program.
• Indent block quotations 0.5 in. from the left margin. For longer block quotations, indent subsequent paragraphs an additional 0.5 in.