APA Paper Formatting - Anyone using commercial templates?

Nursing Students Post Graduate

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There are several commercial templates aavailable to format APA type papaers and I'm looking for recommendations. Anyone use one and can recommend as outstanding?

I have used style ease for the past 2 years, and was pleased with it. After reading gauge 14 post, I downloaded a free trial of end note and found it MUCH easier to use than style ease.

I am taking a course this summer and used it, and loved it! It is so much easier than style ease. I only used it to create my reference page, didn't have time to figure out how to do all the other functions.

When my demo expires, I will purchase it. Thanks for the recommendation!

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Specializes in ICU, ER, HH, NICU, now FNP.

The first couple times I used EndNote, it was so easy I felt like I was cheating. here are a few settings you have to check, but after that you are pretty much home free.

By the way, endnote offers free web based training with a live person!

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The first couple times I used EndNote, it was so easy I felt like I was cheating. here are a few settings you have to check, but after that you are pretty much home free.

By the way, endnote offers free web based training with a live person!

I'll have to give endnote a try. :)

Kelly

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Specializes in ER/Tele, Med-Surg, Faculty, Urgent Care.

When I was in grad school, I used WordPerfect. It has templates for both MLA & APA styles. You go under education templates. It automatically formates your entire paper, running heads, references etc. I have been out of school for 4 years so I do not know if new versions of WordPerfect will work the same way.

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Specializes in ICU, ER, HH, NICU, now FNP.

EndNote is not really a template - although it contains templates. It is actually more of a storage and archiving system for your articles and images and tables.

As you are typing in word, you decide to ref a certain article, you flip over to endnote, select the article you want and then click on the button that it installs in word. It inserts the ref in the appropriate format, with year and appropriate punctuation AND slips it into the bibliography or reference list in order and properly formatted.

It will connect with First Search databases (IF you have access to these through a school or university already!!!) very well and download all the info including the actual article or abstract if it is available, right from first search so you dont have to type the info in. Getting it to work with Ebsco or other hosts can be done, it's just a little trickier since you have to use an export/import process (Ebsco used to work very well with EndNote until they started selling their own web based ref manager - then all of a sudden it didn't work so well with EndNote anymore - coincidence?)

You can store tables, images, and other items in there too and it will refence those appropriately as well. It will store the PDF's, and all the refs you download into your library - or manually type in if you wish - can all be searched by keyword.

It doesnt do just APA, It does MLA and thousands of other styles I never knew existed.

Student versions are available for about 90.00 once the free trial runs out. Best 90 bucks I ever spent.

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