This document provides an overview of how to use APA Referencing Macros in Microsoft Word. The macros allow for automatic formatting of academic papers in APA style. It discusses the main sections of an APA formatted paper, how to set up the macros template, entering author and paper information, how to add in-text citations and references, and special formatting rules for references such as capitalization and handling works with 6 or more authors.

1. APA REFERENCING MACROS APAmacro Microsoft Word Academic paper Automatically conforming document American Psychological Association

2. LAYOUT Four major sections Title page Abstract Main body References

3. GETTING STARTED 2 Documents and template Program Files APA Referencing Macros V2.0 Choose format Spell Checker Name and institution

4. YOUR INFORMATION Go to … APA referencing Menu bar Edit document information Enter your information Title, Author, Running head, Institution, Instructor and course fields Save and begin

5. IN-TEXT REFERENCING Author-date method (Judd, 2004) " The flipside to this is you have….." (Byrnes, 2006) Capitalize nouns Titles – capitalize four letter words E.g. Love and Hate Quotation marks around titles of shorter works E.g. song titles, television series episodes, journal articles All the above APAmacro does automatically

6. HOW TO ADD A REFERENCE Go to APA Referencing – menu bar Enter new reference Choose reference type

7. CITING: AUTHORS Complete the text boxes Known author click on this button Number of authors Authors details

8. REFERENCE LIST References Information on any source you cite Each source must be in Reference list End of paper New Page

9. RULES Alphabetized by last name Same authors – year of publication Capitalize major words – articles

10. SPECIAL FORMATTING After 6 th author – et al. E.g. Naude, N., Bosman, L., Hollenbach, W., Pandy, N., Lottering, A., Pieterse, A., et al. (2005), Love and Hate, Journal of Film and Writing, 23(9), 512-569. Unknown author – shortened title E.g. Maria Pieterse dictionary (6th ed.).(2001). Worcester, MA: Maria Pieterse AUTOMATIC !