GNSCI 153A: Physiology of Mental Health: Outlining a Paper

There are no official APA guidelines for writing an outline. However, the following tips are generally recommended for outline assignments in APA.

1. Add a cover page with the (working) title of your paper in bold, your name, institution, course number and title, instructor, and due date
2. APA 7 no longer requires a running head for student papers, only for professional papers
3. Include page numbers
4. Fonts & sizes accepted
   • 11-point Calibri, 11-point Arial, 10-point Lucida Sans Unicode, 12-point Times New Roman, 11-point Georgia, or 10-point Computer Modern (APA 6 only allowed 12-point Times New Roman)
5. Double space your outline
6. Include proper APA-style in-text citations throughout the outline
7. Add a proper APA-style bibliography at the end of your outline
   • Sources should be in alphabetical order by the last name of the first author. 

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