Hi Zafrina,

You can find more information about the different levels of heading in APA Style, including examples, here.

What are these levels 3, 4 and 5 subheadings are?

APA doesn’t require you to number your headings or provide any formatting guidelines for this, but it’s acceptable and quite common to do so, if you think it helps to clarify your structure.

Thank you
Eshnaf

Hi Anthony,

The template shouldn’t be in Spanish. If you’re referring to the Latin text in the document, that’s just there as a placeholder, to give you an idea of how the text should be formatted. You should of course replace it with your own text, in English! But let me know if that’s not what you were referring to.

Hi Karen,

To cite the sources mentioned in a source you’re reading, the best way is always to find the original source and cite it directly. You can probably find it in the bibliography of the source you’re reading. But if you can’t find or access it for some reason, you can follow the format explained in this FAQ to cite it indirectly.

A chart or graph should usually be formatted and labeled as a figure. Then you’d refer to it in the text as “Figure 1” or whatever number it was. You can read more about including tables and figures here.

Headings are not mandatory; in shorter texts like a class paper they’re often not used, though in a thesis or dissertation you would always use some sort of headings to break up the text. Note that even if you do use headings, APA recommends against using an “Introduction” heading; they say that since the introduction always appears at the start, there’s no need for a heading to mark it as such.

Hi Kelly,

You include an in-text citation whenever you quote or paraphrase a source in your text. Then all of the sources you cite are also listed on the reference page at the end of your paper. You can read more about in-text citations here, and about the reference page here.

Hi Michael,

There’s no specific limit to how long your paragraphs can be in APA style; they suggest that if a paragraph is longer than one double-spaced A4 page, it risks “losing readers’ attention,” so it might be best to avoid paragraphs of that length. In general, just try to start new paragraphs at logical points: when you start to address a new topic or develop a new part of your argument, for example.