How to Create an APA-Style Reference Page

>> 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.