>> Hello. This screencast
will show you how to create
an APA formatted reference page for
your final manuscript in our class.
So APA manual came
out with the seventh edition in 2019,
and so we will follow
the seventh edition rules.
They don't recommend using
any serif fonts like Times New Roman anymore,
so we want to use something sans serif.
I like Calibri. You could also use Aerial.
But anyway. So you need to
create an APA style reference page.
You want to start with
the heading, which is references.
This heading will be bold
and centered on the page.
And notice how I did that,
I just typed it and
then I selected bold and center.
And now my references
are centered on the page.
Now notice that the next line
is also centered on the page,
which I don't want.
To fix that, just go over
here and do your line left,
and you will be started
over at a one inch margin.
Make sure that you're set at the default
with one inch margins all around.
I'll show you how to make sure
that you have that in a second.
So then just go ahead and
start typing your references.
So you can either type by hand.
I could type something like,
let's see, you want to make
sure the bold is off.
So we could do Oswald, B. B.
Let's see, recent paper.
And I don't know,
I just make up some names here.
We'll have maybe a 2019 paper,
the effects of PSY 294
on stress in college students.
And let's say that got published
in Teaching of Psychology Journal,
and that might be Volume 113 Issue 2,
pages 24 to, let's say, 29.
So there is an APA style reference.
Notice there's a few things wrong with it.
I need to italicize this and
this and then I also need
to double space everything
and use hanging paragraph indent.
It also took me quite a while to do that.
You can go ahead and copy paste.
Sorry, I didn't mean to do that.
From the site function,
I'm just going to do an example here,
and I will copy paste into
my new document and that will show up.
Now notice here I have copy pasted.
It's out of alphabetical order,
so I want to drag that around and
make sure everything's in alphabetical order.
I can add some more references to my list.
Let me grab a couple
more here through copy paste.
Where you, again, might be
copy pasting these are out of
the site function in the library database,
which is another video that is provided
through our embedded librarian on Canvas.
So make sure you
check that out if
you don't know how to do it.
And notice that now these are better and
that the proper things are italicized.
I have the doi.org
included, things like that,
but I still have a mistake in
the final format and
nothing is double spaced.
This last one doesn't use
hanging paragraph and all that stuff.
So how do I fix that?
The easiest way to fix that is
to come over here. Do select all.
Click this paragraph.
Make sure that your spacing is
before set to zero and
after is also set to zero.
Make sure that your line spacing is double.
And then click Okay.
Now, that helped everything on the page,
including the title to be double spaced.
But how do I get these nice fancy indents?
You don't want to indent.
You want to leave
now the word references out of it.
Just select all of your references now,
and let me scooch this down
and make sure you can see everything.
This isn't letting me do that.
Hold on. I'll go
back up so you can see what I'm doing.
So I have everything selected.
I'm going to click
this little paragraph line again.
And now here I want to use
the special function and just select hanging.
Now, it almost worked but not perfectly.
Look at how I got this.
These other guys look
great, mine looks wonky.
What I'm going to do to fix that is
just delete mine back up
to the space before
and hit Enter and now everything
is perfectly lined up.
If you want to check your margins,
you can just go up here and click Layout,
Margins, and see what's selected,
normal is selected,
which is putting
the one inch margins all around.
That's what you want.
The last thing if you don't know,
you'll see this in another screencast
is you know in APA format, you need a header.
How do you get
your header and your page number?
I will show you real quick.
If running ahead of paper is your header,
just double click up
at the top of the page
is how I got that
and type in, in all caps what you want.
Then tab over two spots
and insert your page number
in current position.
And that's all you need to do.
Then double click anywhere outside of it,
and now you'll have a header,
which you don't need yet,
but you will need eventually,
and you have your fully
formatted reference page.
Don't forget to click File, Save,
and save it somewhere to
your computer so you have it.
As always, email if you have any questions.