When using Academic Writer to generate a reference, remove the proxy information from the reference as highlighted below.

Incorrect

• Ambrose, A. (1963). The age of onset of ambivalence in early infancy: Indications from the study of laughing. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 4(3–4), 167–181. https://doi-org.proxy1.ncu.edu/10.1111/j.1469-7610.1963.tb02119.x

Corrected

• Ambrose, A. (1963). The age of onset of ambivalence in early infancy: Indications from the study of laughing. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 4(3–4), 167–181. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.1963.tb02119.

The word “Figure” and the number should be bolded.

• Example: Figure 1

The figure title is in title case and italics. 

• Example: APA Checklist

All headings are bold.

Two authors: For works with two authors, use an ampersand (&) in parenthetical in-text citations: (Guirrez & Castillo, 2020) and use the word “and” in narrative in-text citations: Guirrez and Castillo (2020).

Three or more authors: Use the first author's name followed by et al. in-text and parenthetically from the first citation onward.

Parenthetical Citations: Place the author name and publication year in parentheses.

Narrative Citations: Incorporate the author's name into the text as part of the sentence and then follow with the year in parentheses.

Bulleted items that are complete sentences should begin with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark.

There are two options for punctuating bulleted lists that consist of items listed as words or phrases.

1. Do not use any punctuation after the bulleted items.
2. Insert punctuation after the bulleted items as if the items were not in list form. 

Use a serial comma when a list within a sentence contains three or more items.

Use semicolons if any of the items already contain a comma.

Use one space after a period or other punctuation mark at the end of a sentence.

Use a serial comma before the final element in lists of three or more items (i.e., Oxford Comma).

Use parentheses to set off in-text citations.

Capitalize titles in sentence case: Capitalize only the first word of the title, the subtitle, and any proper nouns.

• Example: The APA manual: Seventh Edition

Present both DOIs and URLs as hyperlinks (e.g., beginning with “https:”).

Provide surnames and initials for up to and including 20 authors.

Only use the words “Retrieved from” if the retrieval date is needed.

Do not add a period after the DOI or URL.

Omit the publisher if the author and publisher are an exact match.

Do not include physical locations for publishers.

Number tables in the order they are mentioned in the text.

Include borders only at the top and the bottom of the table, beneath column headings, and above column spanners.

Do not use vertical borders or borders around every cell in the table.

The word “Table” and the number should be bolded.

• Example: Table 1

The table title is in title case and italics.

• APA Checklist

The running head is no longer a required element of the title page.

Page number upper right corner.

The title should be capitalized, bold, centered, and located in the upper half of the title page.