APA 7 QUICK CHECKLIST
Bhim Prasad Sapkota — learning resource template
A reminder for your own draft. It is not a substitute for the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.

Before you submit a student or professional paper, check:

- Title page matches the version your institution or journal actually requires.
- The whole paper uses a consistent font, spacing, and page number style.
- Headings follow the level you intend, and you have not skipped levels.
- Every in-text citation has a matching reference entry.
- Every reference entry is cited in the text.
- Author names, year, and the title's capitalisation follow APA 7 patterns.
- DOIs are presented as https://doi.org/... when a DOI exists.
- Quotations have a page or paragraph location.
- Paraphrases are genuinely rewritten, not a few swapped words.
- Tables and figures are numbered and referred to in the text.
- The reference list is ordered by author surname.

Do not invent a source, a page number, or a DOI. If you cannot find the source again, remove the claim or find a source you can read.