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(Ref BF 76.7 P83 2001) for detailed information. The APA Style Guide to Electronic Resources is available from the library website (www.dbq.edu/library) under For Students or For Faculty Citation Tools. Note: Always refer to instructor- or assignment-specific instructions, which may differ from this summary or the complete guidelines manual. See the end of this guide for a sample title page and paper in APA format. Formatting your paper: Use 12-pt Times New Roman throughout the text. For tables and figures, use a sans serif font such as Arial. All margins are one inch. Double-space the entire paper. Title page Include the title, your name, and the name of the school. (Some professors prefer the name of the class instead.) The title elements are centered in the middle of the page. Capitalize the first letter of each important word in the title. Do NOT underline or italicize the title. Do NOT put the title in quotation marks or use a different size font. The Running Head is usually included only for publication. (Some professors require it for academic papers also.) Page numbers Paginate inch from the top of the page, flush right. Create a header with a short title, five spaces, and the page number. The title page is page one. Citing sources in-text: You MUST give credit when you quote or paraphrase (use words or ideas) from another source, published or unpublished. For a direct quote, include a page number, or (if there aren’t page numbers) a paragraph number with the ¶ symbol. Example: (Myers, 2002, ¶ 3). When paraphrasing, give the author’s last name and the source year in parentheses. Example: (Myers, 2002). All references must clearly point to a specific source identified in your References page. One author, paraphrased: Preliminary research shows that if a thousand monkeys type at a thousand typewriters, one of them really wil