APA Essays: Basic Rules You Should Keep in Mind
If you have to write an essay, a research paper or a term paper on Psychology, Economics, Sociology, Business and some other Social Sciences, such essays should be done in APA style.

We know that APA format essays usually cause a lot of troubles, because there are so many requirements you should memorize and stick to. In this 300-word article, we will not be able to highlight all of them. Yet, we suppose even basic rules of making APA essays that every student should know will be a good start for you.

Recommendations on the content of APA essays

You should keep in mind not only requirements for margins, fonts, necessary elements of APA style essays. APA format also refers to the content of your papers that should be:
- concise;
- reflect the author’s point of view;
- avoid biased language about gender, race, age, etc.

General requirements for essays in APA style

These requirements refer to how your APA essays should look like. So, an APA essay should:
be typed on a standard size (8.5 inches x 11 inches) white paper;
have 1-inch margins on all sides;
be typed using standard 10-12 pt fonts.

Important elements of APA format essays

Each time you are writing an APA essay, make sure it has a title page, an abstract, and references. Mind that references should be organized according to specific rules as well. We recommend you get a good APA manual to check all peculiarities.
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