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APA Style 7th edition: Common Mistakes & Solutions: Master's, post-Master's, Doctorate Specifics

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Graduate School-Specific Notes

  • (Graduate works only) Chapters labeled according to DNP Handbook using words, not numerals.

    Include page numbers & running head as specified in DNP guidelines. 
    Some Thesis & NMU Nursing DNP Scholarly Project guidelines specify No Running Head, and have different location for page numbers.


    Research involving humans requies approval by NMU Institutional Review Board (IRB) 
    https://nmu.edu/sponsoredprograms/human-subjects-research

    Research involving animals requies approval by NMU Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IOCUC)
    https://nmu.edu/sponsoredprograms/animal-subjects
     

  • Include page numbers & running head as specified in DNP guidelines. Some Thesis & NMU Nursing DNP Scholarly Project guidelines specify No Running Head, and have different location for page numbers.
  • (Graduate works only) Chapters labeled according to DNP Handbook using words, not numerals.
  • In narrative, only two spaces (not one, not three) following end of sentence punctuation. Use Ctrl-H to find & replace these occurrences.
  • IRB is Institutional Review Board
  • If two sets of words are hyphenated but split, include the hyphen for both. Correct: pre- and post-test Incorrect: pre and post-test
  • Also, be consistent using word forms. If you introduce pre-test using a hyphen, keep that form throughout manuscript; do not make it one word: pretest.
  • Refer to decades without apostrophe. Correct: 2000s Incorrect: 1990's.
  • APA does not use superscripting for numbers such as 4th or 3rd. (Change Options - Proofing - Autocorrect settings in Word).