{"id":952,"date":"2016-08-10T18:41:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T18:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/styleguide\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=952"},"modified":"2023-08-03T15:41:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T15:41:59","slug":"formatting-the-apa-first-main-body-page","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-guidetowriting\/chapter\/formatting-the-apa-first-main-body-page\/","title":{"raw":"APA First Main Body Page Formatting","rendered":"APA First Main Body Page Formatting"},"content":{"raw":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Beginning at the top of a new page, the main body of the research paper follows the abstract and precedes the References page. Comprised of the Introduction, Method, Results, and Discussion subsections, the main body acts as the third major section of the document and typically begins on the third page of the paper.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">General Format<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Like the rest of the paper, the pages of the main body should be double-spaced and typed in Times New Roman, 12-pt. The margins are set at 1\u201d on all sides. The page number is flush with the upper right-hand corner of every page.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/dYRZh-llIBo\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The full title of the paper is centered directly above the introduction with no extra space between the title and the first paragraph. Avoid formatting the title with bold, italics, underlining, or quotation marks. The first letter of each major word in the title should be capitalized. Unlike other sections of the main body, the introduction does not require a heading or label.<\/span><\/p>","rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Beginning at the top of a new page, the main body of the research paper follows the abstract and precedes the References page. Comprised of the Introduction, Method, Results, and Discussion subsections, the main body acts as the third major section of the document and typically begins on the third page of the paper.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">General Format<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Like the rest of the paper, the pages of the main body should be double-spaced and typed in Times New Roman, 12-pt. The margins are set at 1\u201d on all sides. The page number is flush with the upper right-hand corner of every page.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"oembed-1\" title=\"How to Format Your Paper in APA Style\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dYRZh-llIBo?feature=oembed&#38;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The full title of the paper is centered directly above the introduction with no extra space between the title and the first paragraph. Avoid formatting the title with bold, italics, underlining, or quotation marks. The first letter of each major word in the title should be capitalized. Unlike other sections of the main body, the introduction does not require a heading or label.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-952\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Revision and Adaptation. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Gillian Paku. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: SUNY Geneseo. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>How to Format Your Paper in APA Style. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Memorial University Libraries. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/dYRZh-llIBo\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/dYRZh-llIBo<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":19,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"How to Format Your Paper in APA Style\",\"author\":\"Memorial University Libraries\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/dYRZh-llIBo\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Revision and Adaptation\",\"author\":\"Gillian Paku\",\"organization\":\"SUNY Geneseo\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-952","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":548,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-guidetowriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-guidetowriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-guidetowriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-guidetowriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-guidetowriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-guidetowriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/952\/revisions\/1907"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-guidetowriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/548"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-guidetowriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/952\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-guidetowriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-guidetowriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-guidetowriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-guidetowriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}