What are the most common APA-related mistakes that students make in the final paper, and what can I do to avoid making the same mistakes?
Some of the common APA-related mistakes that students make in the final paper are: • Incorrectly using abbreviations (1.07, 3.21 – 3.29) • Improperly using italics and quotation marks ( 3.19, 3.06) • Improperly capitalizing titles or names of tests, theories, or models (3.12 – 3.18) • Improper hyphenation (3.11) • Omitting the author, year, or page number when citing quotations (3.39) • Not following guidelines when quoting long passages (3.34, 3.39) • Not making sure that the authors’ name and the publication year in all within-text references matches the corresponding information in the reference list (4.01) • Improperly using commas and other punctuation marks (3.01 – 3.05, 3.07 – 3.08) • Improperly expressing numbers as words or figures (3.42 – 3.49) • Not properly enumerating list items (3.33) • Not following guidelines for line spacing or margins (5.03, 5.04) • Not following guidelines for headings and titles in appendixes (3.90 – 3.92) • Using colloquial expressions, informal wr
