The new version of the APA formatting style was launched a while back. We gathered all the catchy points that you should pay attention to while setting the formatting to your document. You are welcome to note the most important moments:

1.  The header of the title no longer has the “Running head:”. If you are writing the student’s paper, you should leave the header empty and indicate only page number.

The second page (Abstract page) has the header which is the title of the document in uppercase, as it was in the previous 6th version.

Student’s title consists of Title of the work, author’s name, the institutional affiliation, course number and name, instructor name, and assignment due date. All the information is centered.

2.  Footnotes / Endnotes are not an obligatory option but useful if you are going to provide specific information/comments, or this is a professor’s recommendation. Footnotes must be gathered in the separated page after the References.

3. There are major changes in the way the citations should be performed.

If you use direct citations, you must indicate the author’s second name, publication date and the page number. (Author, Date, p. XX) If you use an indirect citation, the way you cite remains to be the same as in the previous version (Author, Date).

The in-text citation for works with 3 or more authors is shortened right from the first citation. Include the first author’s name and “et al.” (Taylor et al., 2018)

4. As for Web References, there is no need to insert “Retrieved from” before the web address. You may start with the URL. If no author indicated, you should start with the Title, and include retrieved date as in the following example: Title of page. (Year, Month Date). Site name. Retrieved Month Date, Year, from URL DOIs are formatted the same as URLs. The label “DOI:” is no longer necessary. Here is the example: https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2018.1560449

The way of referencing the Print Sources has also encountered a minor change. The publisher’s location is no longer included in the reference. These are the most drastic changes and key points that you should remember while implementing the new APA 7th edition to your assignment.

*** FOR MORE INFORMATION, you may follow the link (copy and paste in the browser): https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html

Formatting styles are a traditional ingredient of the word processing stew.

To double-check and supercharge your knowledge, we would suggest you to pass some online quizzes:

http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/tutorials/apatutorial/tutorialindex.html

http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/tutorials/mlatutorial/tutorialindex.php

http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/tutorials/turabian/tutorialindexTur.html

A student’s cumulative GPA is recalculated every time the student completes a class. Cumulative GPA is a student’s average number of quality points. This is determined by dividing the number of quality points a student has earned by the number of credits attempted. For instance, if a student earns an “A” in a three credit class and a “B” in another, the student has an average GPA of 3.5. If the student then completes two additional courses and earns an “A” and a “C,” the student has a GPA of 3.25. 

GPA in most universities is calculated by first multiplying Credit Hours by Quality Points for the grade earned to get Quality Points for the course. It is then divide Total Quality Points by Total Credit Hours Attempted (39/12). GPA after these four courses is 3.25.

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