Microsoft Word produces bibliographies for the most common academic style guides -- MLA (Modern Language Association), APA (American Psychological Association), Chicago and Turabian. The newer versions (2008 and 2011) of Word for Mac can automatically generate a bibliography after you have entered your sources (books, articles, websites, etc. May 05, 2016 American Psychological Association rules for formatting papers, in-text citations, and end references. Examples based on the sixth edition of the Publication Manual from the APA. By Alexis Carlson Find out all the rules needed to correctly format your paper in APA style.
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Learning Hadoop and Spark? I've scoured the internet and I think is a great way to jump in. It's hosted on Coursera, so you can audit the course for free. If you write a lot of academic papers in the social sciences (like my wife does) you’re likely going to have to manually format some references at one time or another.
If you’re like my wife, you’ll likely start inserting tabs and newlines all over the place, but then if you ever have to edit your references you’ll end up with a mess you’ll have to fix manually, which can be frustrating. Seeing as I’m usually the dogs-body who ends up fixing APA reference formatting on an almost weekly basis, I thought I’d document it so maybe my wife will learn how (hint hint). So here is my guide: 1) Get the basics in order. Authors are listed Surname, Initials: “Rathbone, M.A.”. Comma separate multiple authors.
Then you put the year of the paper in parens (1994). Then the title of the paper. Not every word is capitalized: “How to format references”. Then the journal in Italics “ Harvard Educational Review”.
Then the issue, and the page number. Here’s the complete example: Rathbone, M.A. How to format references. Harvard Educational Review, 33(1) 1-20. 2) Tricky line formatting stuff APA requires that all lines other than the first be ‘hanging’, that means indenting them by 1/2 inch. And unlike the rest of your paper they should be single spaced. Do NOT add tabs to do this, there’s a better way: A) Select all your references by dragging over them with your mouse.
B) Navigate to Format - Paragraph C) In indentation, select Hanging D) In Spacing ensure line-spacing is ‘Single’, and enter ‘16pt’ in the field labelled ‘after’. This is the amount of space to leave between paragraph blocks. E) Set your font to Times New Roman, size 12.
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Your references should be in good shape. Bonus tip: You’ll likely add / remove references in the process of editing, so it’s best to save the reference style for quick application in the future.
Thankfully this is pretty easy: select a reference that you just formatted by dragging over it with your mouse Go to Format - Style Now select ‘New’ The selection will default to the format of the text you have selected (your reference), which is correct. Name this something like ‘APA Reference’, ensuring ‘Add to Quick style list’ is also selected, and click ok. Now you can select unformatted references and simply select the style from the Home Ribbon: Enjoy. APA Formatting Book.
Microsoft Word is a popular word processing program; it is the program used by most universities and businesses. It is so common that sending a document often requires basic Word knowledge.
Creating a paper in Word using the APA format means using a format designed by the American Psychological Association (APA). These papers are commonly written on topics of science or psychology. Combining the APA style with the Word formatting is as simple as understanding how the two formats go together harmoniously. Open Microsoft Word and find the 'Page Layout' tab in the ribbon. The ribbon is at the top of the open document. Click on the 'Page Layout' option, then click on the 'Margins' option.
A new box will pop open. Create one-inch margins for the top, bottom, left and right margins of the page, as APA papers require a one-inch surrounding margin. Press the 'OK' button.
Find the 'Home' tab on the ribbon. Click on this option then find the rectangle to change the font style to comply with the APA style. The Microsoft Word default style is Calibri. Look for this word and click on the arrow next to it. A pull-down menu will appear. Scroll through the pull-down menu to find 'Times New Roman.' Click on this title.
The style will change and the pull-down menu will disappear. Next, find the number next to the font style. This is the font size. Click on the arrow and scroll through the pull down menu to find '12.' Click on '12' and the pull-down menu disappears. Remain in the 'Home' tab. Find the section titled, 'Paragraph.'
Find the four lines parallel to each other. Click on each box to demonstrate how Word aligns the cursor for left alignment, center, right alignment and box style. Use the right alignment and center alignments to create the title page. The running title and page number will be arranged in the header using the right alignment, according to APA format. The title page will utilize the center alignment, with all title page information centered on the page to coincide with APA formatting. Insert a header into the paper by finding the 'Insert' tab on the ribbon. APA style requires a running header with page numbers for the paper, complete with title and page number on each page.
Find the 'Header & Footer' tab under the 'Insert' tab and click 'Header.' Click on 'Edit Header.'
Insert the running title of the paper and click 'OK.' Find the 'Header & Footer' tab again, and click on the 'Page Number' tab. Use the options to insert page numbers into the header of each page.
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