One of the most important aspects of any academic document is the formatting style. If you are a sociology student you are sure to write term papers and you are sure to format them in strict accordance with the APA (American Psychological Association) writing style. It is not really difficult to write APA style term papers as long as you know how to do it correctly. Moreover you do not need to implement all those rules from your memory. It would be enough to have a manual or some guide. Still you need to know the basics of its standards. And if you have questions on the matter you can always look for some help online.
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First of all you need to know that APA style term papers would obligatory include four main sections. These sections are the title page, an abstract, main body with an introduction and conclusions and a reference list. If you omit one of these sections (like a title page, which is a common thing, for not all the formatting styles require it), it would be regarded as a serious formatting mistake.
Besides, all these sections are organized in a particular way concerning font size and style, margins, spacing, headers, notes, references etc. APA formatting style generally requires 12 Times New Roman or Courier font, double spaces, one inch margins from all the four sides, 5-7 spaces indentation in the main body and page headers with the title of the paper in the left and the page number in the right. This style uses in-text notes, not the endnotes or footnotes. This is also very important while writing your term paper and can’t be neglected.
The information on the title page should include such aspects as the title of the paper, your name and the name of the educational institution. And there should also be the header like described above with the page number included. As for the reference list it may be the most important part of the whole paper and should be treated with care. In APA style term papers all the entries of the reference list are alphabetized by the last name of the author or the first word of the source title (if the author is unknown). The last name comes first followed by the comma and the initials; the year of publication in brackets; the title of the article (if needed), the title of the source italicized (the first word is capitalized, if this is a journal entry, all the major words are capitalized); location and the publisher after the colon. All the lines in every entry but for the first one are indented one-half inch from the left margin.