APA Paper Formatting - Anyone using commercial templates?

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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 just finished my BSN/MSN and was very frustrated with how each instructor interpreted APA. (Don't even get me started - lol). However, our instructors would provide us with a sample copy of their version of the APA style and then I followed that and did fine.

I agree. It's incredibly frustrating. There really is no "standard" format with instructors.

:rolleyes:

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

EndNote EndNote EndNote

I didnt lose a SINGLE point on APA last year! NOT ONE!!!!!!!!!! Not even from the professors who are well known for not agreeing on what APA is really supposed to be!

And it does a LOT more than just build and format your bibs. It catalogs whole libraries of articles, images and graphics, it loads the abstract, and you can link the pdf of an article right to it within a library. You can connect to firstsearch pretty easily and download all the refs right into the program. Ebsco works too, but you have to import since ebsco made their stuff not work so well with endnote, so it would work with the prgram ebsco sells.

you can get the student version on amazon for like 89 bucks. I think the endnote.com website has it for a student price too. The reviewer who wrote the negs on Amazon was a total idiot who thought he'd get free access to a library with the software, and didnt bother to read the manual obviously. I have had NO issues with it, and have gotten rapid response from customer service whenever I have a question. They have free web based training courses too.

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Specializes in Psychiatry.
http://www.refpt.net/index.htm

Here's the website I downloaded the program from. My spouse used it to get his Masters in Health Care Administration and loved it.

It does more than reference, it sets up the title page, etc. I'm it does more than what I've used it for when when I start a paper it asks if I'm doing a simple or complex paper. But just having it do the reference page is a Godsend to me.

This looks like a good program.

Kelly

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I use style ease. It does your formatting, and cover page and references. But after 2 yrs in grad school I have found out formatting is the easy part, LOL!

You must have the APA book so you can learn the rules! Ex. when to write out a number versus spelling it, proper abbreviations, politically correct terminology, etc...

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Specializes in Gerontological, cardiac, med-surg, peds.

To me, the templates were much more trouble than they were worth. I just sweated it out with the 5th edition APA Manual.

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

The templates ARE a pain, one more reason why EndNote rocks - by the time you finsih writing your paper, your refs are DONE and you dont have to do a thing. All you have to do is just click on the one you want to put it in your paper whereever you want it. It builds the biblio all by itself AND apa formats it for you.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Nursing Education.
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?

reference point software is great. i'm using it for my BSN program and will continue for my MSN.

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Specializes in Psychiatry.
I was looking at some of these. Don't really want to learn another way to format and write papers. Rather focus on content of writing and other studies.

http://www.charm.net/~rps/index.htm

http://thewritedirection.net/drpaper/dp-home.asp

http://www.styleease.com/APAMain.htm

http://www.apastyle.org/stylehelper/ver5/

May try the syleease demo version first but would love to hear about any of these from others.

Hey Tweety, does reference point do more than reference formatting?

Mike

Did you try the style ease program? I was looking at that one. Please advise if anyone has experience with style ease. tia

Kelly

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Did you try the style ease program? I was looking at that one. Please advise if anyone has experience with style ease. tia

Kelly

I wound up using styleezze simply because it had a free demo to try it out and it worked fine for me. Really cut down on some major formatting headaches due to lack of understanding. Learning as I do.

Perrla looked good as well, similar in function, but did not try it since there was no free demo version.

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Specializes in Psychiatry.
I wound up using styleezze simply because it had a free demo to try it out and it worked fine for me. Really cut down on some major formatting headaches due to lack of understanding. Learning as I do.

Perrla looked good as well, similar in function, but did not try it since there was no free demo version.

Thanks for replying and letting me know.

Kelly

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Specializes in er, pediatric er.

I had PERRLA and APA's style helper. PERRLA is the much better choice. It is much simplier to use plus it formats the paper right into MS word. I have the red and black APA book, as well.

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Check this out. Most of my MScN (A) class uses it.

http://www.journeyed.com/itemDetail.asp?T1=81782773

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