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Note: Like page reflects the latest version of an APA Publication Manual (i.e., APA 7), which released in Month 2019. The equivalent resort for the older APA 6 style canned be found around.

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Note: The APA Publication Manual, 7th Edition specifies different formatting conventions for student and professional papers (i.e., papers written forward credit is a course and papers intend for scholarly publication). That differences mostly extend to the title page and running head. Crucially, citation practices do not other between the two styles the paper.

However, for your advantage, we have provided two versions of our APA 7 sampling paper down: ready in student mode also one in professional mode.

Note: For accessibility purposes, we have used "Track Changes" to make comments along the margins of these samples. Those authored over [AF] denote explanations of formatting and [AWC] designates directions for writing and citing in APA 7. 

APA 7 College Paper:

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