Running head

Running head: YOUR TITLE HERE IN CAPS 1

TITLE OF PAPER IN CAPS 3

Header includes: Running head: on first page only. Your title is justified left and the page number is justified right.

Basic formatting: 1” margins on all sides. Times New Roman 12pt. font. Double spaced. Do not use bold text.

The title page should contain the title of the paper, the author’s name, and the institutional affiliation. NOTHING ELSE.

Title of Your Paper

Your Name

Kaplan University

Introduction

Each section of your paper should have a heading and should be center justified. All papers should include an introduction paragraph which tells the reader what you are writing about and/or the purpose of your paper. At the end of your paper there should be a summary paragraph where the major thoughts/concepts of your paper are summarized.

In-Text Citations

Anytime you reference ideas or content form another work, you need to provide an in-text citation which will correlate to a work on your reference page at the end of the paper. This citation will be in the first sentence which begins to reference that work and includes the author’s last name and the date of publication. There are two basic ways to accomplish this:

1. According to Morton, the author’s name can be included in your sentence which would be followed by the year of publication in parenthesis (2016).

2. It is more common to just include the author’s name with the year of publication in parenthesis (Morton, 2016).

At the undergraduate level, direct quotations from your references are discouraged; do not do it. For works with three or more authors, the first time the ideas are referenced you will need to include all the names in your citation (Morton, Packard, & Johnstone, 2017). Any additional references to that work may be cited without all the names (Morton et al., 2017).

It is my expectation that you will be citing references from peer reviewed journal articles found in the Kaplan library. If you have any questions on how to do that, then ask for an overview at the end of seminar. No online sources or webpages will be accepted as references.

In the reference list of this template I have included examples showing how books and journal articles are referenced. Please pay attention to the punctuation, the use of capitalization and, the use of italicized text. The basic rules of using punctuation, capitalization and italicized text can be found at https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/05/ . The reference list should be started on a new page; label this page “References” centered at the top.

Alphabetized.References

In title, o nly the first word, proper nouns, and word after : or ? is capitalized .Arzouman, J. (2015). Evidence-based practice: Share the spirit of inquiry. Medsurg Nursing, 24(4), 209-211.

Journal’s name and issue number are italicized.Browne, G., Cashin, A., & Graham, I. (2012). The therapeutic relationship and mental health nursing: It is time to articulate what we do! Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing, 19(9), 839–843.

Grove, S., Gray, J., and Burns, N. (2014). Understanding nursing research (6th ed.). St. Louis: Elsevier Health Sciences.

Halter, M. (2014). Varcarolis’ foundations of psychiatric mental health nursing (6th ed.). St. Louis: Elsevier Health Sciences.

Varcarolis, E. (2015). Manual of psychiatric nursing care planning (5th ed.). St. Louis: Elsevier Health Sciences.