Double-space your paper and set the margins on all sides to one inch. Use 10- or 12-point Times New Roman font. Left-justify the text so you have a "ragged right" margin.
Type the title of your paper flush-left in the page header. If your title is long, you may abridge it as a brief phrase from the title. For instance, you might abridge "New Theories on the Causes of Robert E. Lee's Defeat at Gettysburg" as "Causes of Lee's Defeat." Insert the page number flush-right.
Press "enter" until you are almost halfway down the page. Type the complete title of your paper. It's acceptable if your title is two lines long. Press "enter" again and type your name, then press "enter" again and type the name of your college or university. Center all of this text on the page.
Center the word "Abstract" at the top of the next page. Press enter and left-justify your text. Write a 150 to 250 word summary of your research, including your topic, methodology, results and conclusions. Do not indent this paragraph.
Center the title of your paper at the top of your third page. Again, it may be two lines long. Press "enter" and begin writing the body of your paper. Unlike your abstract, every paragraph in the body of your paper should be indented one-half of an inch.
Cite sources in-text by typing parentheses, the author's last name, a comma, the year of the source's publication, another comma, the lower-case letter "p" followed by a period, then the page number from which you drew the specific fact you are citing. Close the parentheses. Any punctuation in your sentence, such as a period or comma, should come after the parentheses. For example, if you drew information from page 146 of the 2006 book "Art of the Northwest Coast" by Aldona Jonaitis, you would write: "The Tsimshian people use crests to represent their connection to spiritual ancestors (Jonaitis, 2006, p. 146)."
Organize your sources alphabetically by last name. Center the word "References" at the top of your reference page. Press "enter" and indent one-half of an inch.
Type the last name of the first author on your list, a comma, the author's first initial, and a period. If your first source has any other authors, type a comma after the first author's name and type the other authors' names in the same way as you did for the first author. Type an ampersand before the final author's name. For example, your citation might read: "Angeli, E., Moore, K., & Lawrick, E." If there are more than seven authors, put ellipses between the names of the sixth and the final authors. If you are citing an encyclopedia, an official organization's anonymous publication or another source with an unknown author, simply type the title of the source or the name of the organization.
Type the source's year of publication in parentheses. Type a period after the parentheses.
Type the article's title, if you are citing an article from a periodical or encyclopedia, capitalizing only the first letter. Type a period. Italicize and type the title of the periodical followed by a comma. Type the volume number in numerals rather than spelling it out. De-italicize. Put the issue number, if any, in parentheses and type a comma. Type the page numbers then a period.
Italicize and type the book's title if you are citing an entire book, capitalizing only the first letter of the book and of any subtitle. De-italicize and type the edition number, if any, in parentheses before typing a period. Type the city of publication, a comma and the state or country of publication, using the state's abbreviation. Type a colon, the name of the publisher then a period.