APA Style format and double spacing req???

Question

I'm currently doing a paper that is requiring me to use APA format. I am new to the format. I have read various pages saying that you need to double space through out the whole paper. From what I have seen they are saying to double space between each word, single space before each punctuation, and of course double space between each sentence. Is this accurate? Mainly questioning the double spacing between words. Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

I was new to the APA style formatting and referencing too this year. Uni gave us this site to look at. hope it helps you.



http://www.ecu.edu.au/LDS/pdf/refguide.pdf



as for the double spacing thing, simply format it in microsoft word. go to format, then into paragraph then change the line spacing into double. it then does it for you

Answer 2

The double spacing refers to the line spacing, not the letter spacing. You know, Microsoft Word>Format>Paragraph>Spacing:double. That.



Well, at least that's what my school tells me to do.

Answer 3

i dont think it matters ... i do it because it is consistent with the rest of the paper. in journals, everything is single spaced anyway.