APA Style Template

[whlangeman]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel I have been assured by my institution, that the APA
(American Psychological Assoc._ style format is available in Word 2008 for Mac.

I cannot find it. What I can find is what claims to be an APA citation generator which, apparently, does not itself hold true to APA style.

 

[John McGhie]

Yves Dhondt is our resident expert in Citation Styles.

The Template you need is here:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/TC300000521033.aspx

When you try to download it, you will see a warning that your operating
system does not meet system requirements. That's "good news" ‹ they put
that page there at our request to explain to Mac users how to get the
template. Read the rest of the page and it tells you want to do

Your next issue is that Word includes APA Style version 5. If you want
version 6, you will have to grab the XSL file from a PC copy of Word 2007
and drop it in, as Yves explains here:

http://bibword.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Styles&referringTitle=Home

There's a full explanation here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/archive/2007/12/14/bibliography-
citations-1011.aspx

Any further questions, please wait for Yves to pop in: I'm not expert in
this area.

Cheers

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel
I have been assured by my institution, that the APA
(American Psychological Assoc._ style format is available in Word 2008 for
Mac.

I cannot find it. What I can find is what claims to be an APA citation
generator which, apparently, does not itself hold true to APA style.

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[Yves Dhondt]

The APA stylesheet that comes with Word 2007 (and even Word 2010 beta) is
still the old one. For example, there is no support for a DOI field by
default. So I'm not sure if grabbing a copy from Word 2007 is going to be
any help. I have been in contact with the people at Microsoft responsible
for the tool in the Windows version of Word and they are aware of the
stylesheets being out-of-date. However, I never received any straight answer
of them releasing updated stylesheets (with Word 2010).

I have posted instructions on the docmanagement group on how to alter the
style to include a DOI field:
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...hread/8a28a5a9a2a607d7/5b594105d46d9ba7?hl=en .
Note that on a Mac, there are some changes in the 'bibform.xml' structure.
But you should be able to implement things if you wanted to.

Another issue is that Word is not capable of adding suffices to years if the
same author has published multiple works in the same year. In such a case, a
totally incorrect format is outputted by the stylesheet. The easiest
solution is to generate the bibliography once, then add suffices to the
sources that need them, and finally update all the citation and bibliography
fields in your document to get the correct formatting.

Yves