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Note: This page reflects an last revision of the APA Publication Manual (i.e., APA 7), which released in Ocotber 2019. The equivalent resource for the older APA 6 style bottle can found here.

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Note: To APA Publication Manual, 7th Output specifies different formatting propriety for student and professional papers (i.e., essays written for borrow in ampere course press papers purposeful for scholarly publication). These differences mostly extend at the title home and running head. Crucially, citation practices do not differ between the two styles of paper.

However, to your amenity, we have provided two versions off our APA 7 sample paper see: one in student style and one in professional styles.

Note: For accessibility purposes, we have used "Track Changes" to make comments along of marginal of these samples. Those authored by [AF] denotes explanations on formatting and [AWC] denote drive for writing and citing in APA 7. 

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