SAMPLE APA PAPER FOR STUDENTS 5
Use a
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employed in appendices for certain cases.
The Appendix
The appendix is a useful tool to provide your readers with supplemental information,
which can be in the form of figures, tables, or text. The appendix will be placed after any
reference, figure, and table pages. You are allowed to have more than one appendix, which will
be arranged in the order that they are referred to in the paper. Each appendix will be titled
“Appendix.” If you have more than one appendix, they will be given an alphabetical designation
(e.g., “Appendix A”, “Appendix B”, etc.). Each appendix will have a title, double-spaced, below
the page heading. Refer to the table in the Appendix of this guide for more information about
where to locate information on various topics in the APA Publication Manual. It should be noted
that the table in the appendix does not have a label or number attached to it; because it is a single
standalone table in an appendix, no alphanumeric designation is required.
Referencing Research Material
A major component in any academic paper is the citation of information that you
incorporated into your essay from materials found in the research process. Failure to give
recognition to that source material is plagiarism. Heffernan, Lincoln, and Atwill (2001) state
that:
Plagiarism occurs if you are presenting the words or thoughts of another writer as if they
were your own. When you submit a paper that is wholly or partly plagiarized, you are
taking credit— . . . —for work done by someone else. This is fundamentally dishonest
and therefore wrong. (p. 571)
If you are caught plagiarizing, the academic consequences could include failure of your class, or
expulsion from your program or institution.
Example of a block quotation—see section 6.03 (p.171) of APA Publication Manual.