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\documentclass[12pt,english]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage[letterpaper]{geometry}
\geometry{verbose,bmargin=2.5cm,lmargin=2.75cm,rmargin=2.85cm}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{appendix}
\setlength{\parindent}{0mm}
\setlength{\parskip}{3mm}
\setlength{\jot}{2mm}

\titleformat{\section}{\bf\Large}{}{0em}{}
\renewcommand*{\thesection}{\arabic{section}}
\titlespacing{\section}{0pt}{0ex}{0ex}
\begin{document}

\thispagestyle{empty}

\title{The Paper Title}
\author{The Author's Name}
\date{\today}

\maketitle

\newpage

\pagenumbering{roman}

\tableofcontents

\listoftables

\chapter*{Introduction}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Introduction}

The introduction.

\newpage

\pagenumbering{arabic}
\doublespacing
\setlength{\parskip}{7mm}

\section{Section I}

Some text in section one.

\newpage
\section{Section II}

Some text in section two.\footnote{reference to an article?}

\pagestyle{plain}

\appendixtitleon
\appendixtitletocon
\begin{appendices}

\chapter{}

\newpage
\section*{Tables}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Tables}

\newpage
\section*{References}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{References}
\singlespacing
\setlength{\parskip}{6mm}

Example Author A.
\emph{The book he wrote.}
(Place:
Publisher,
2005).

A Really Long Author Name.
\emph{His book title was so long, it took up more than one line.}
(Place:
University Publisher,
1992).

\end{appendices}
\end{document}