Hi all! I've got my first paper due in about a week or so. It's to be written, of course, in APA format. Now, in my prior papers, I've always done all of the work entirely by hand as instructed... however, I'm wondering - is there a legitimate and correct way to save some time on this by having a program or website assist in creating citations/bibliography?
I have been warned that the current iteration of MS Word does not do APA correctly, so I'm hesitant to trust any program I stumble across randomly. What do you recommend, if anything, that has proven accurate results?
It does not do all the work for you....it just makes it a heck of a lot simpler!
It automatically formats your paper so you can just start typing, and when you have a reference you click insert reference and fill out the boxes that pop up.
Then the program cites it in your paper in APA format and organizes and automatically starts your works cited page.
It cut my paper writing time in half, because I don't have to worry about where there needs to be a comma or period or not, in my references....
Anyway, the website has a short video that shows you how it works....check it out :)
Thanks for your reply JBudd! I will look into getting PERLA. I don't mind spending a small amount of money as long as I'm assured a quality product! I think I will buy the APA book as well, since I'm going to be writing multitudinous papers for the next couple years or so....
Buy PERRLA... save your money on the APA book... the book won't provide you anything that you need. PERRLA will pretty much have you covered and you can use various websites (I'm a fan of Purdue's OWL) to fill in any missing pieces.
My university recommends Endnote for all referencing which I use. Saves a ton of time and most of the academic journal databases have an export to Endnote function that will export your references directly into Endnote.
SOn of Citation Machine always has the most up to date version of all citation style and will give you in text citation and reference page format. Also they can cite books based on the ISBN # and others by web addresses (i.e. medline). Best part it's free. Google it and it will come up
I didn't read the thread yet so I don't know if it has been posted, but this website either takes the isbn from the book or you enter individual information and it will make your reference for your reference list at the end and your in text citations. Your welcome
I have always used noodletools.com It was free at my last college and now I just pay (like $20 I think) and still use them. Its really nice for your reference page.
I get papers submitted to me to edit from time to time. Although the citation lists can be beautiful...as an editor it gives me a pain to have to correct author name misspellings at both ends. But PERRLA sounds wonderful.
Does anyone know if PERRLA work's with Mac's Pages program? I was about to get it until it said Word only. I can convert my files to Word docs, but I'm not sure if this would be the same.
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It does not do all the work for you....it just makes it a heck of a lot simpler!
It automatically formats your paper so you can just start typing, and when you have a reference you click insert reference and fill out the boxes that pop up.
Then the program cites it in your paper in APA format and organizes and automatically starts your works cited page.
It cut my paper writing time in half, because I don't have to worry about where there needs to be a comma or period or not, in my references....
Anyway, the website has a short video that shows you how it works....check it out :)