How To Format An Academic Research Papers
It’s important to follow the guidelines given to you by the instructor in order to comprehend the required information of the research paper. They are different styles to use when formatting academic research papers such as;
Use of tense
Use of numbers and persons
Titles / headings
References
Text citations
Plagiarism
Spacing
Type of font
Margins
When writing someone else's work, make sure to use past tense but when referring to a theory use present tense. If you are also referring to work which has not been approved use future tense. Before submission of your work, change future tense to past tense.
It is preferably to use third person when constructing your sentences. Also minimize the use of personal pronouns e.g. we, I , my, to express personal opinion use phrases as such as (Margaret’s opinion) use roman numbers when the number is above ten.
The headings of every academic paper should be centered and be of upper case. Major topics or sub topics