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Biology

General Guidelines for Research papers

You will be required to use APA format for your assignments. This will require you to use APA 7th Edition. The library has copies of this manual but you may also use the American Psychological Association (APA) website as a reliable source. It is easy to navigate and is up to date on all APA rules.

Your assignments will also require you to locate and use peer-reviewed journal articles. These can be found using enCompass on the TVCC Library homepage.

Finding primary research, peer-reviewed journal articles

Primary research: articles reporting original research, such as the author's findings from a survey or experiment. Research articles have five sections:

Introduction
Materials and Methods
Results
Discussion
Conclusion

APA Guidelines

Font

12-point Times New Roman, double space is best but you may also use:

*11-point Calibri1

*11-point Arial

*11-point Georgia

Always check with your instrutor if they allow anything other than Times New Roman

Title Page

Centered

Page Number (running page numbers)

Paper Title (Bold) (3-4 lines down from top of page)

Author (Student's Name)

Affiliation (Department and College Name)

Course (Number: Course Name)

Instructor

Due Date (Date Format January 15, 2023)

*Double space after the Paper's Title

In-Text Citation

Both quotations and paraphrasing require citation.

*Author's surname, Year (Dominick, 2023)

*If surname appears in text, the date is in parentheses immediately after the name.

Dominick (2023) states....

References

Grady, J. S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Perez, C., & Yelinek, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), 207– 217. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185