The guidelines provided by APA help authors reduce bias around topics such as gender, age, disability, racial and ethnic identity, and sexual orientation, as well as being sensitive to labels and describing individuals at the appropriate level of specificity.
Writing inclusively and without bias is the new standard, and APA’s new publication manual contains a separate chapter on this topic. The use of emojis and hashtags is also explained. Dozens of examples are included for online source types such as podcast episodes, social media posts, and YouTube videos.The following heading styles used in APA formatting are listed in order of greatest to. For example, when citing a podcast episode, the host of the episode should be included for a TV series episode, the writer and director of that episode are cited. In essence, you are using headings to create a hierarchy of information.
Click this link to see the Heading Levels Template Student Paper. The APA Style Blog offers a short sample paper describing level headings and how to properly use headings within a paper.
Women in early British and Irish astronomy: Stars and satellites.
