Rough Draft

Basic Format:

Double-spaced, typed, on standard size paper (8.5” x 11”; portrait view in Word).

1 inch margins on all sides

11-point Calibri, 11-point Arial, or 10-point Lucida Sans Unicode, or a serif font such as 12-point Times New Roman, 11-point Georgia, or 10-point Computer Modern Font

Justify left only, but paragraphs indented ½ inch.

The title page is page 1 and numbering continues through to the last page of the document.  Numbers are to be in the upper right-hand corner in the same font and size as the text.

Every page, beginning with the title page, is to have a running head, which is also the same font and size as the rest of the document.  Note the running head is not the full title, just a shortened version.

Leave one space after all endmarks (i.e., periods, question marks, exclamation marks).  

Use only 1 space after all colons.  

Order of Content:

Title Page: -      Running head for publication (optional) -      Title – centered; should not exceed 12 words -      Byline and affiliation - centered

Body of the Document: -      Title centered at the top of the page – Regular font, not bold. -      Introductory paragraph(s) – this does NOT have a heading. It should begin with the topic/problem statement and 2 or 3 more sentences about it. Then the introduction should close with a brief overview as to the organization of the literature review based on the headings. -      The first section after the introduction should have a level 1 heading (bold, centered, all important words begin with a capital)

-      Further subheadings should appear as follows:

Level 2 - Left-justified, bold, important words begin with a capital, text begins on next line indented 1/2”.  

Level 3 - Indented ½”, bold, only first word begins with a capital (exception for proper nouns), ends with a period, and the text begins on the same line.  Best to do this manually rather than use the style setting.

Level 4 - Indented ½”, bold, italicized, only first word begins with a capital (exception for proper nouns), ends with a period, and the text begins on the same line.  Best to do this manually rather than use the style setting.

Level 5 - Indented ½”, italicized, only first word begins with a capital (exception for proper nouns), ends with a period, and the text begins on the same line.  Best to do this manually rather than use the style setting.

The body should close with a summary of the entire document, reviewing the main points in each section with numerous citations.

References

(some of this is a repeat from earlier, but some is new)

The word References should be centered at the top of the page – not bold.

·         All entries should be in alphabetical order based on the first author’s last name.

·         If you have more than one work by an author, order them by publication date, oldest to newest.

·         When an author appears both as a sole author and, in another reference as the first author of a group, list the one-author entries first.

·         If no author is given for a source, alphabetize using the title of the work, which will be listed in place of the author.  However, if the title begins with The, A, or An, alphabetize it by the second word.  For example, an article titled The Field Test of Research would be alphabetized by “Field,” and “The” should still be in the title.

·         Use a hanging indent for references (all lines after the first line of each entry in the list should be indented one-half inch from the left margin).

·         One space is used after all endmarks in the references.

·         Authors' names are inverted (last name first); give last name and initials for all authors of a particular work unless there are more than seven authors (see Purdue Owl or APA manual to review how more than seven authors should be done).

·         Use "&" instead of "and" when listing multiple authors of a single work. Always insert a comma before the ampersand (&) even if there are only two authors.

Example: Smith, A., & Jones, B. (2013). Perfection. Cherry on Top, 4(7), 45-82. http://dx.doi.org/10.2013.COT.468 

·         Capitalize only the first word of a title and subtitle of a work.

·         Italicize titles of books and journals (the italics in these continues through commas and periods).  However, only the first word of the book title begins with a capital letter.  Conversely, every “big” word in the journal title should begin with a capital.

·         List the doi for all articles.  If no doi is shown, go to crossref.org to check for the doi as not all databases list the doi. 

Also, when it comes to references, be sure to focus on the “tiny” details such as commas, italicizing, capitalization, and spacing.  Also be aware that doi and URL can be split between more than one line, but only after a single backslash.