APA FORMATTING CHECKLIST

Font type is Times News Roman, size 12px. Line spacing is double (2.0) and no paragraph spacing. Page margins are all set to 1 inch (2.54 centimeters). Paragraphs in are indented at the beginning. Text-align for essay paragraphs is set to left. Title page is correctly formatted with: essay title (bolded), author's name, university name, class name, instructor's name, date of submission. In-text citations follow the author-date method (e.g., (Jones, 1998) or Jones (1998)). Page number(s) or another logical identifying element, like paragraph number, is included in the in-text citation for direct quotes. Direct quotations are put in quotation marks "...". Direct quotations longer than 40 words are correctly formatted according to APA citation rules for long quotes. All sources cited in-text appear in the reference list at the end of the paper. Reference page/section is labeled "References" at the top of the page. All reference entries use hanging indentation (All lines after the first line of each entry should be indented 1.5 inch or 3.81 centimeters from the left margin). All reference entries are correctly formatted based on the type of source. Authors' last names are listed in full; first and middle names are listed as initials. In case of multiple authors, authors' names are separated with a comma and an ampersand (&) before the last author's name. In case of journal article with DOI, include the DOI link instead of URL link. Reference list entries are alphabetized by the last name of the first author of each work.

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