APA is one of the most commonly used styles of writing in the world today. It may even be okay to say that it is a style that may be known to any student who has been writing papers, the period over which they have been doing so not withstanding. APA research papers follow a fairly easy to master format which includes a title page, abstract, the body and a reference page. All these areas of APA research papers need to be very well done in order for you to have a realistic chance of scoring well in that paper.