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APA Treasure Hunt
Shannon Leveille
Liberty University,
PSYC 255: Introduction to Research
Professor Erik Wiedman
January 22,2024
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APA Treasure Hunt
A student title page will include the paper’s title, author name(s), author affiliation,
course number and name for which the paper is being submitted, instructor’s name, the due date
for the paper, and a page number. However, on a professional title page, it will include the
paper’s title, author name(s), author affiliation(s), author’s note, a running head, and also the
page number. A perspn can find more on this on pages 67-69 of the Publication Manual of the
American Psychological Association.
A abstract is a brief but comprehensive summary of the contents of your paper. It will
give a overview of everything that is within it so the reader can decide themselves if they need to
read the entire thing or not. It typically is about a paragraph long, so you could say
approximately 150-250 words long. The goal is to make it long enough for the reader to have a
good idea of what the paper is all about. Abstracts will address in one to two sentences, the key
aspects of the literature review, the research questions, it will have a clear hypothesis or
hypothesis, what methods were used, the study results, and it will tell why the study was so
important. Abstracts appear on a separate page following the title page and before the main
content of your paper. Professional papers that appear in scientific journals and other
publications require abstracts, however, student papers don’t always require abstracts, that all
depends on the instructor. Abstract pages should include a running head, a section label, a page
number, a double-spaced paragraph of about 150 to 250 words, and a indented list of keywords
related to the paper’s content. In-text citations are to show the reader that a piece of the
