1. Although practicing writing in APA format will definitely help you to hone your skills, there are several additional exercises that may be useful as you attempt to become more familiar with this format. The first is to examine a published journal article to determine where discrepancies with proper APA format exist. We suggest you examine a journal that is not affiliated with APA (a list of APA journals is available on their Web site) and preferably one that is not refereed (i.e., does not go through a peer review process). Remember to pay particular attention to both the specific formatting issues (e.g., running head, types of headings, references), as well as the information contained within the article (e.g., how extensive is the literature review that is contained within the introduction).