Of course, generally speaking, APA paper format is popular in Europe and America. Others, such as Harvard, MDL and Chicago, have different requirements for paper format in different academic fields. If you have specific requirements, please write to me at the station. At present, lunwenmarketeditor's domestic standards are: language and content are the important basis for judging the quality of an English paper; However, whether the writing format is standardized is also a measure that cannot be ignored. Therefore, it is of great significance to standardize the format of English papers and make them conform to international academic practices for our English teaching, writing English papers and promoting international academic exchanges. Because the writing norms of English papers vary from subject to subject, this paper intends to summarize the writing norms of humanistic English papers in American education and academic circles for readers' reference and imitation. First, the title of an English paper A long English paper (such as an English graduation thesis) generally needs a title page, and its writing format is as follows: the distance between the title of the first line and the top of the printing paper is about one-third of the total length of the printing paper, and the distance from the next line (usually in the center) is 5cm. The third and fourth lines are the author's name and date respectively (both in the middle). If the English thesis is written by a student for a course, the academic title of the teacher and its name (such as dr/Prof. c. prager) and the number or name of the course (such as English734 or BritishNovel) should be marked between the author's name and date. When printing, if there is no special requirement, each line should be double-spaced, that is, interlaced printing, with a line spacing of about 0.6cm (the line spacing of other parts of the paper is the same). As far as students are concerned, if English papers are short, they can also type the contents of the title page in the upper left of the first page of the text instead of making the title page (and outline page). The first line is the author's name, about 2.5cm from the top of the printing paper. The following lines are the teacher's title and surname, course number (or name) and date in turn; The left side of each row is aligned up and down, leaving a margin of about 2.5cm (the same below). Next is the title and text of the paper (between the date and the title, between the title and the first line of the text, only need to print alternately, do not need to leave blank). Second, the English paper outline page includes the topic sentence and the outline itself. Its standard format is as follows: first, type the word "thesis" and a colon at the beginning of the first line (the distance from the top of the printing paper is still about 2.5cm), and then type the topic sentence after leaving a space. When returning, the left side must be aligned with the first letter of the topic sentence. The main outline is marked with capital Roman numerals, and the secondary outline is marked with capital English letters, Arabic numerals and lowercase English letters in turn. Add a dot after each number or letter, and type the first letter of the content with a blank space; The top, bottom and left sides of the same level of contour must be aligned. It should be noted that there must be more than two equally important programs, that is, I should have II, A should have B, and so on. If the outline of an English paper is long and needs two pages, the page number of the second page must be marked with lowercase Roman numerals in the upper right corner, that is, ii (the first page does not need to be numbered). 3. For English papers with a title page and an outline page, the standard format of the first page of the text is: the title of the paper is centered, about 5cm from the top of the printing paper and about 1.5cm from the first line of the text. The first letter of a paragraph must be indented by five spaces, that is, starting from the sixth space. The first page of the text does not need to be numbered (but the page number should be calculated). Starting from the second page, the author's surname must be indicated in the upper right corner of each page (that is, the first line at the back is vacant), and the page number should be indicated with Arabic numerals after a space is vacant; Arabic numeral (or its last digit) should be the last space in the line. Pay attention to the printing format of punctuation marks when printing the text, that is, leave two spaces after the end of the sentence (period, question mark and exclamation point) and one space after other punctuation marks. 4. It is an important link to quote the original works or the opinions of experts and scholars correctly in English papers. We should not only pay attention to the organic unity of citation and paper, that is, its logic, but also pay attention to the standardization of citation format (that is, English paper references). Quote other people's opinions, either directly or indirectly. In any case, the author of the paper must indicate the author and source of the quoted text. At present, the common practice in American academic circles is to indicate the author and source of the quotation in brackets after the quotation. According to the different situations cited in this paper, some standard formats are described as follows. 1. If the citation is less than three lines, the citation can be organically integrated into the paper. For example: divorce law Nold's personal desire led to "family photos" (Roper 9). Here, the roper in brackets is the last name of the author of the citation (full name is not required); Arabic numerals are the page numbers of quotations (don't write P.9); There should be a space between the author's surname and the page number, but punctuation is not needed; The period should be placed after the second parenthesis. 2. If the quoted text is more than three lines, the quotation should be separated from the main body of the paper, as shown in the following example: Whitman has proved himself to be a Democratic congressman and journalist, and his "democrat" is admirable and a typical attack. andifoneissorrythatinitwhitmanisunableto conceivetheextremecriseseofsociety，one iscertainthatnosocietywildbtolable who ses citizenscouldnotfindreshmentinitsboyantemocracidealism。 (chase 165) There are two points to note in the format here. First, the first letter on the left of an English paper has ten spaces, and the spacing is different, that is, it should be typed from the eleventh box; Second, quotation does not need quotation marks, and the ending period should be marked after the last word. 3. If you need to insert notes in the quotation to explain some words, you should use square brackets (not parentheses). For example, Dr. Beaman pointed out that "he (Charles Darwin) is an important factor between the controversial theory of evolution and evolution" (9). It is worth noting that in this example, the surname of the author of the citation has already appeared in the leading sentence, so it is only necessary to indicate the page number of the citation in brackets. 4. If there are words irrelevant to the paper that need to be deleted from the text to be quoted, you need to use ellipsis. If ellipsis appears in quotation marks, use three points, if it appears at the end of quotation marks, use four points, and the last point indicates a period, and put it after the second parenthesis (generally speaking, ellipsis should be avoided at the beginning of quotation marks); There should be a space between dots and letters, or between dots. Such as: Maryshelleyhatedtyrannyand and "Look at the education of the poor and the upper class under the social system, the undisguised courdcontemp(nitchie 43). 5. If the quotation comes from multiple volumes, the author's surname and page number, and the number of volumes should be indicated. For example, Professor's History of English Literature aims to provide China readers with a historical overview of English literature from the history of literature to the 20th century (Chen, 1: i). 1 in brackets is the volume number, and the lowercase Roman numeral I is the page number, indicating that the quotation comes from the preface of 1 volume (preface, preface, introduction, etc. Page numbers are mostly expressed in lowercase Roman numerals). In addition, the title of the book AHistoryofEnglishLiterature is underlined; The standard format is: the title of the book, including the title of the work published in the form of a book (such as Paradise Lost), must be underlined or italicized; The titles of other works, such as poems, essays and short stories, are all marked with double quotes, such as "ToAutumn" and the previous "DemocraticVistas". 6. If an English paper quotes two or more works by the same author, it should indicate the author, the page number of the citation and the name of the work. For example, Baconcondedplatoas's AnobstacleScience (Farrington, Philosophy 35). Farrington pointed out that Aristotle's sfathernicomachus, Aphysican, may be a well-trained medicine (Aristotle 15). These two examples quote Farrington's two works respectively, so the titles quoted are marked in their own brackets to avoid confusion. The titles of the two books are abbreviated (if the titles are too long, they should be abbreviated when indicated in brackets), and the full names are the Discovery of Philosophy of Science and the Discovery of Philosophy respectively. 7. Commenting on poetry often needs to quote the original poem. The quotation format is shown in the following example. When Beowulf DiversupwardStroughthewater and chee The surface, "Waterways, great water behaviors,/were all cleaned" (1. 1620-2 1). The poems quoted here are separated by diagonal lines, and there must be spaces between the diagonal lines and the letters and punctuation marks before and after; 1 in brackets is the abbreviation of line; 2 1 need not be written as 162 1. If the quoted poem exceeds three lines, it is still necessary to separate the quoted poem from the main body of the paper (see item 4, point 2). 5. Bibliography of English papers The author of the paper must provide the detailed publication of all the quotations in the paper after the text, that is, the bibliography page. American colleges and universities generally call this page WorksCited, and its format should pay attention to the following points: 1. The table of contents page should be separated from the text, printed on another page, and placed after the text. 2. The table of contents page should be regarded as a page of an English paper, and the author's surname and page number should be indicated in the upper right corner according to the page number order of the paper; If the entry is more than one page, the first page does not need to be marked with the author's surname and page number (but the number of pages must be counted), and the remaining pages are still marked with the author's surname and page number in order. The distance between the cited title works and the top of the printing paper is about 2.5cm, and the distance from the first line in the first item is still 0.6cm. The distance between each item and each line is also 0.6cm, so there is no need to leave blank. 3. The order of each content is the author's surname, first name, name of the work, name of the publishing house, place of publication, year of publication and starting and ending page numbers. ; Entries should be arranged in strict alphabetical order according to the author's surname, but it is not necessary to code each entry, and it is not necessary to separate books from magazines, periodicals and other entries. 4. The first line of each item needs to be printed in the top box, and five boxes need to be indented when returning this line to distinguish it from other items. Some special projects are listed below and briefly explained for readers' reference. Two Morebooks, Bytes, Mauthorbrooks of Cleanth. fundamentalsofgoodbwriting:AHandbookofModernRhetoric。 New york: Hackett, 1950. -The Hidden God: Studying Singeway, Faulkner, Ye Zhi, Eliot and Warren. New Haven: Yale Up, 1963. To quote several works by the same author, just indicate the author's name in the first entry, and replace the rest with three hyphens and a dot. Entries should be arranged alphabetically according to the first word of the title (except the article). William shakespeare. The legend of Makubex. Edited by ... Louis B. Wright. New york: Washington Square, 1959. This entry puts the author Shakespeare's name in front and the editor's name (not upside down) in the back, indicating that the quotation is from Thetragedyofmacbeth. If the quotation comes from the preface, introduction, etc. Written by the editor, you need to put the editor's name in front, such as: blackmur, Richard p. introduction. Preface to criticism. Byhenryjames。 New york: Scribner, 1962.vii-xxxix. If the introduction and the book are written By the same person, the format is as follows (just indicate the author's surname after by): Emery, Donald. Preference. Basic English. Through emery. London: Macmillan, 1972.v-vi. Thomas Amooti Walker Brown. Thomas brown's Works, Volume IV, London: Faber Press, 1928. Thomas brown. The works of Sir thomas brown. Edited by Jeffrey Keyes. Vol.2 London: Faber,1928.4 vols. The first entry indicates that the book has ***4 volumes, and the author of the paper uses the contents of each volume; The second entry indicates that the author only used the contents in Volume 2. English Romanticism: A Healthy Spirit is recognized as romanticism. Edited by Northrop Pley. New york: Columbia University, 1963.63-88. The names of cited English papers must be marked in quotation marks, and attention should be paid to placing the period after the English paper name in quotation marks. The page numbers at the beginning and end of the article in the anthology must be marked at the end of the item. Articles in periodicals, magazines and newspapers. Child Abuse: Parents' Group Therapy Journal of Personality and Guidance No.62 (1984): 336-48. The names of newspapers and magazines need to be underlined, but there is no need for punctuation after them. 62 is the volume number or issue number. If there are both volume numbers and period numbers, they should be separated by periods. Such as: (3.3); 1984 is the year of publication and should be put in brackets. Arnold, Marigan. "Scandinavia in willa cather: Creating Atmosphere." A survey of Mar. 198 1: 23-24, 28. At the same time, the publication date of monthly or bimonthly must be indicated; 23-24, 28 means that the first part of the article is published on pages 23 and 24, and the latter part is transferred to page 28. Gnassincia. "When Goliath speaks." Washington Post March1July, 1985: b 1. The citation of Chinese and English papers in daily newspapers must indicate the year, month and day of publication. B 1 is the layout and page number of this article in the newspaper.