It appears you need such a manual in order to merely properly form your question. I'll cut you a break, though, and assume that English isn't your first language (either that, or your cat stepped on your keyboard as you were typing), and that same is the proximate cause of your having left out the words "does it" after the (unnecessary) comma, or the word "the" before "style format" which would be necessary to even make your question fully coherent!
Because the question is so poorly formed, I have to guess what in the heck you're actually asking (and please don't add to your answer because most of us answer, and then leave and never return so I, for one, will never see any clarification that you add)...
...but I THINK you're asking, in effect, is by what right may the school impose its particular style standards on the student if the normative manual of style is the 6th edition of the APA, and said style standards are different therefrom? Is that about it?
If so, then it seems like you're looking for a legalistic reason to challenge a style decision on something you wrote which is contrary to the very style manual that you were told to use; and which manual you followed, only to have the instructor or professor tell you that the school's way of doing that particular thing, and not the APA's way of doing it, supersedes.
If the APA is the school's declared manual of style; yet the school has an additional written style manual of its own, or a published explanatory statement somewhere; and if either the school's manual or its published statement specificallly says that the school's way of doing a certain thing is the preferred way, even when said way is different from the APA's way of doing that same thing, then that's it. The school's way is the only way. Period. And it's up to you to know.
However, if you're told that that APA is your guide, and that's it; but then some prof or instructor tells you, after the fact (after you've written a paper pursuant to the APA, as you were told to do) that some traditional (but not ever properly published and so, then, notified) contrary way is what you should have done instead...
...then, yes, at that point you'd be in the right and the prof or instructor would be in the wrong; and taking it to the head of the department (if it's that important to you) would be in order as potentially the only way you could get it resolved.
If I've intuited that the latter situation what's going on in your case, then that prof or instructor needs to be more fair-minded and give you the credit for the APA method. And then s/he needs to adjust his/her grading accordingly in the future.
Hope that helps!
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