Wednesday, May 29, 2013

APA Heading 3 Doesn't Hang Out by Itself

A lot of people do this:

      Here is my heading 3 just like APA tells me to have it (Really?).
    
      And here is the beginning of the next paragraph, and I go on thinking that I've correctly used APA's 3rd level heading—but I haven't.

You should do this:

     Here is my heading 3 just like APA tells me to have it. And here is the beginning of my paragraph, and I go on feeling rather smug because this is the right way and I know it.

Here is an illustration straight from the sample paper that the APA editors have kindly provided for us.





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