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The selection will default to the format of the text you have selected (your reference), which is correct. Select a reference that you just formatted by dragging over it with your mouse

You’ll likely add / remove references in the process of editing, so it’s best to save the reference style for quick application in the future. That’s it! Your references should be in good shape. Click ok.Į) Set your font to Times New Roman, size 12. This is the amount of space to leave between paragraph blocks. And unlike the rest of your paper they should be single spaced.ĭo NOT add tabs to do this, there’s a better way:Ī) Select all your references by dragging over them with your mouse.ĭ) In Spacing ensure line-spacing is ‘Single’, and enter ‘16pt’ in the field labelled ‘after’. Harvard Educational Review, 33(1) 1-20.ĪPA requires that all lines other than the first be ‘hanging’, that means indenting them by 1/2 inch.

Then the journal in Italics “ Harvard Educational Review”.

to go by when it marks the entire document.

#WORD FOR MAC 2011 SHOW FORMATTING MARKS HOW TO#

How to create your TOA using a MAC and Word 2011.

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Not every word is capitalized: “How to format references” Guide to formatting an appellate brief using MS Word on a PC or Mac.

Then you put the year of the paper in parens (1994).

Authors are listed Surname, Initials: “Rathbone, M.A.”.

Seeing as I’m usually the dogs-body who ends up fixing APA reference formatting on an almost weekly basis, I thought I’d document it so maybe my wife will learn how (hint hint). Sometimes you cannot see the changes straight away when you open the Word document, even though the changes of. If you’re like my wife, you’ll likely start inserting tabs and newlines all over the place, but then if you ever have to edit your references you’ll end up with a mess you’ll have to fix manually, which can be frustrating. Hopefully this’ll help you sort out any formatting issues with Microsoft Word I do like the program (contrary to my views on it a few years ago!), but man oh man can it be weird about inserting pictures or reflowing text.If you write a lot of academic papers in the social sciences (like my wife does) you’re likely going to have to manually format some references at one time or another. Then you’ll see exactly which characters you can choose to have showing all of the time:

Once the Preferences window opens, choose “View”: That option is available by clicking on Word > Preferences from the menus at the top of the program. To turn off showing those nonprinting characters, press that button again, and you’ll be back to the normal view.įinally, note that you can also control which nonprinting characters show all of the time, whether you’ve toggled this button on or not. In the most recent version of Word, you’ll just select the “Home” tab in the toolbar and then click the giant paragraph sign, which looks sort of like a backward “p.” Turning this view on and off is luckily very simple. (And if you’re not familiar with any of the symbols used for those nonprinting characters, check out the Wikipedia article on it.) So if I couldn’t figure out why my text was doing weird stuff after my last word typed there, it’s probably because of that page break! Good to know. Whenever you hit keys like Tab, Return, Spacebar, and so on, Word is actually sticking what it calls nonprinting characters in. For Mac: Go to 'Show Markup' on the review tab and uncheck 'Formatting'. About 2/3rds of the way down, youll see 'Formatting'. Seems pretty normal, right? But if I reveal the hidden formatting, here’s what we see: For Word: Go to the 'Review' ribbon and click on the arrow section and select 'Change tracking options'. Now, why would you want to see those characters, you may ask? Well, if the text within a document is behaving oddly, figuring out whether something behind the scenes is working against you is definitely the way to go, especially with how persnickety Word can be about moving elements around. Well, Microsoft Word can do this, too, and that’s what I’m gonna go over today. I’ve mentioned before that Pages has a way that you can show and hide what it dubs invisible characters, so if you need to see paragraph returns, tabs, spaces, and so on, it’s as simple as pressing Shift-Command-I or choosing View > Show Invisibles in that program.