Do you bold the word References on the APA reference page?

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According to the References section of the Formatting Checklist on the APA Help guide, you should label the reference list References, capitalized, in bold, and centered. 

To see a sample paper and References page, go the APA Help guide and click on one of the following:

The Student Paper Template (Word) is already formatted for APA, so all you have to do is input your own information.

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  1. Label the reference list "References," capitalized, in bold, and centered. Double-space all reference list entries (including between and within references). Use a hanging indent for all references, meaning that the first line of each reference is flush left and subsequent lines are indented by 0.5in. Use the paragraph-formatting function of your word-processing program to automatically apply the hanging indent. For the order of works in the reference list, see Sections 9.44 to 9.49.
    by Dr. Gary Lieberman on Jun 14, 2020
  2. Thank you for the comment. Baker College is updating all of our APA materials & answers to the 7th Edition for the Fall of 2020.
    by ASK US Librarian on Jun 14, 2020

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