Licence
The style is provided under the Creative Commons Licence. This style is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.Installation
Download and extract the archive content.Copy the file named
APAStyle_vx.ddmmyyyy.dot to your Template Microsoft Installation folder. Usually this folder is located in
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates.To see this folder in
Windows Explorer you have to set Show hidden files and folders option in
Windows Explorer -> Tools -> Folder Options -> View.
Usage
To create a new document based on the APA Style template, fromFile menu choose New and from general templates list select
APAStyle_vx.ddmmyyyy.dot.
What it does
The template is based on the free information found on the sites from Further Reading section.The template contains styles for general purposes like: Headings, Title, Author/Affiliation, Running head, document body.
Please acknowledge that APA style format is double spaced, yet the actual template uses the single line spacing but provides also style for double line writing.
It has a main macro for inserting paper title, author(s), affiliation(s), running head, page header.
What it does not
It has no macros for automatically inserting:
- footnotes
- figures and figure captions
- tables
- citations
- references
Further Reading
- http://www.apastyle.org/
- http://www.apastyle.org/faqs.html
- http://www.apastyle.org/previoustips.html
- Free APA Template for Microsoft Word
- APA Formatting and Style Guide Purdue University
- Psychology With Style
- Manuscript template in 5th edition APA format
- APA Style Sheet for MS Word
Note: the site addresses were retrieved on 26.02.2008






