I just want to thank you greatly for this. I've been harassed and embarrassed because I didn't know how to reference using APA 7 but now I do and can walk with me shoulders up
Word has a References section, I want to know how to make the whole document to default to APA 7 including the Reference section APA only appears to be at 6th edition in the References tab under Citation and Bibliography. Someone once told me that APA 7 makes it so that you cant use the pre designed Bibliography or the pre designed Works Cited things they have there.
Word has not updated their references function in several years, and it was not accurate when it was up-to-date. If you'd like to try something similar that creates citations for you, there are other options. For something you don't have to download, I'd recommend ZoteroBib.
Thank you for asking this question! I've spent so much time trying to find out how to get Word's APA style updated to 7. Microsoft is really dropping the ball, not keeping up with APA-there are a lot of formatting changes!
Thanks so much! I spent so much time trying to get the hanging indentations to work (I tried adding in spaces hahah). Also some great tips on formatting my paper to make it look up to code. Will definitely share with other students. :)
ms word has apa 6th edition, in built in its reference styles, what about the 7th edition? Where does one download the relevant file for this purpose? Thanks in advance.
MS Word has not updated its reference styles in years. For example, its version of MLA became outdated 4 years ago. It also does not do APA 6th edition correctly. I recommend creating your own reference page instead.
Are you asking why I didn't use Word's reference function? It hasn't been updated for the 7th edition, and it doesn't do the 6th edition correctly anyway.
The title is, "APA 7th edition in MS Word", it isn't until the very end that you even address the topic and then there is no mention of the grammatics that need to be addressed!!
Thanks for commenting! This video is for the basics of formatting an APA paper with the Microsoft Word. You can find other videos on the channel if your question was about citations instead of using MS Word to format the paper. What question did you have about grammar?
No, APA wants you to include the DOI whenever possible, even if you read a print edition of the article. You can see their official guidelines here: apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples/journal-article-references
I'm not sure I understand your question. Your reference page will list each source that you used for information in your paper. If you used more than one piece of evidence from a source, you'll have more than one in-text citation, but you'll only list the source once on your reference page. Does that answer your question?
I'm having an issue with the numbers on the headers typing over each other. So instead of page 2, it has a 1 under the 2, and so forth. How do I fix that?
This sometimes happens if you try one method of adding page numbers and then another method. Most likely, you just need to delete the one that is incorrect. Did that work?
I'm not aware of a way a user could update Word. However, you could search online for templates. Make sure to check that the template follows 7th edition guidelines.
So after doing the cover page what do I go to to make sure the APA format is correct when I start typing my paper on the following page? I’m in the doctoral program and when I submit my assignments my professor said I was using the tab button so what I am supposed to be using then?
What are you using the tab button to do? If you are using it to indent paragraphs, another option is to go to the paragraph settings and set first line indent to 1/2 inch. If you are using it to center align headings, use the alignment setting instead. (Tip: If you change the paragraph settings to indent the paragraphs, make sure this setting is *off* for headings, otherwise they'll be slightly off center.) Does that answer your question?
@@amywhitson9479 I’m still confused . Yes I do use the tab button to indent and I always set it as double spaced. I just don’t know why it doesn’t look the same format when it’s submitted. I have a zoom meeting this afternoon with her so maybe she can help. I will try what u said tho thx any other suggestions? Lol
@@Yepyep341 I'm old school, so I use tabs to indent, but they may prefer you to do it different. Here's a video from another channel showing how: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-37Fn_PEVtf8.html&ab_channel=professorjedi
Many professors don't require abstracts for short papers--APA doesn't show one for the student version. If you need an abstract, the professional version shows to put it on a page by itself after the title page. Use the heading Abstract, and don't indent the first line.
As far as I know, this is not something Word will do automatically. You can find templates online, and there are extensions that will create citations for you (I would suggest Zotero).
