APA Format question.... (software maybe?)

[Big Rick Rock]

Hey guys,


Got a family member who needs to write a College paper, she needs to write it in APA format. Can somebody suggest a good software program she can use to make it "idiot proof" for her?


Karma for link to FREE APA Format softaware programs.


Thanx.




-BRR

 

[eat big]

I got the perfect one. Hold up.

 

[eat big]

http://citationmachine-east.net/index.php?source=52

 

[redguru]

That's just for citations page, eatbig. Doesn't help with how to indent and annotate in the text body. Unfortunately, I know of no such formatting software. There may be a word macro out there somewhere that helps collate cites.

 

[eat big]

http://www.dianahacker.com/pdfs/Hacker-Shaw-APA.pdf

http://www.dianahacker.com/pdfs/Hacker-Shaw-APA.pdf

 

[redguru]

That's just for citations page, eatbig. Doesn't help with how to indent and annotate in the text body. Unfortunately, I know of no such formatting software. There may be a word macro out there somewhere that helps collate cites.

Actually I take that back.

This looks promising:

FormatEase

 

[eat big]

That's just for citations page, eatbig. Doesn't help with how to indent and annotate in the text body. Unfortunately, I know of no such formatting software. There may be a word macro out there somewhere that helps collate cites.

 

[Big Rick Rock]

Man o Man!





-BRR

 

[p0ink]

BRR, is there any software out there that looks promising but isn't free?

 

[Big Rick Rock]

BRR, is there any software out there that looks promising but isn't free?

I just ran a google search and found one... I guess at this point I'm not too worried about the free part since she is only on her first semester and I'm sure she is going to get plenty of use out of it...



Does anybody have any personal experience with ANY APA Format software even if it is not free????



-BRR

 

[p0ink]

BRR, give me the name of a product that has a 'free trial version'..and i will see what i can do.

 

[Big Rick Rock]

BRR, give me the name of a product that has a 'free trial version'..and i will see what i can do.

Hmmmm... I know where you are going with this. I'm on my way out the door now but I will work on this tomorrow, I'll drop you a PM when I find something. Thanx bro. K and Temp Plat for you.




-BRR

 

[UA_Iron]

Ugh APA style sucks balls - cant this person just take a template or previously written paper and copy the style?

 

[redguru]

Ugh APA style sucks balls - cant this person just take a template or previously written paper and copy the style?

Using APA, it has to be a liberal arts degree. All of us on the other side of the campus used MLA.

 

[Smurfy]

holy crap. when I went to college, we didnt even have computers. we did everything by hand and we read in braille outside in the snow barefoot both ways

 

[Sassy69]

holy crap. when I went to college, we didnt even have computers. we did everything by hand and we read in braille outside in the snow barefoot both ways

Uphill or down? Or both? We had to hammer tree bark to make paper and mine our own lead & cut trees to make pencils. No erasers either.

 

[Big Rick Rock]

Using APA, it has to be a liberal arts degree. All of us on the other side of the campus used MLA.

Forensic Pathologist actually....





-BRR

 

[redguru]

Forensic Pathologist actually....





-BRR

Yeah, forgot about the med peeps.

 

[UA_Iron]

Uphill or down? Or both? We had to hammer tree bark to make paper and mine our own lead & cut trees to make pencils. No erasers either.

is that how your delts got so big?

 

[Sassy69]

is that how your delts got so big?

LMAO! Yea... that's it.

 

[redguru]

Uphill or down? Or both? We had to hammer tree bark to make paper and mine our own lead & cut trees to make pencils. No erasers either.

I thought you just drew your essays on the walls of the cave?

































j/k, please don't kill me.

 

[UA_Iron]

I thought you just drew your essays on the walls of the cave?



j/k, please don't kill me.

Crushing berries to make paint...

I bet Sassy has a mean cavewoman grunt

 

[Lestat]

I wrote many papers in APA format in college, there isn't much to it really, its mostly about the shitty headers and what not. Not sure of any software to do it, but you can take any complete paper and make it into APA format fairly easily.

 

[jnuts]

http://www.uwsp.edu/psych/APATemplate.doc

 

[jnuts]

http://www.southernoceansoftware.com/apamacros/index.html

 

[Dial_tone]

I use this

http://www.perrla.com

 

[samoth]

Ugh APA style sucks balls - cant this person just take a template or previously written paper and copy the style?

That is so an engineer's response....

 

[redguru]

That is so an engineer's response....

You spend time on the LAW boards, you should prefer MLA

 

[redguru]

Crushing berries to make paint...

I bet Sassy has a mean cavewoman grunt

I'll have to cut her pics into Daryl Hannah's part in Clan of the Cave Bear.

 

[samoth]

You spend time on the LAW boards, you should prefer MLA

Ouch, lol.

Credited.

 

[UA_Iron]

That is so an engineer's response....

 

[saint808]

What is APA? No joke?

 

[UA_Iron]

What is APA? No joke?

American Psychological Association (APA) Format

* title page, which includes a running head for publication, title, and byline and affiliation
* abstract
* text
* references
* appendixes
* author note
* footnotes/endnotes
* tables
* figure captions
* figures

gets more in detail...
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html#General Format