Speaker 1: Hello, Professor Morgan here showing you how to set up a APA style paper Student paper as opposed to a professional document There are two different formatting and this shows you the student way of doing it and we're using Google Docs Because why not? All right, so there's several different ways you can do this The first thing I want to do is kind of just set up some of the basic parameters Now when it comes to the font for APA latest one, and I'm recording this in December, actually just about January of 2024. Anyway, so the font actually isn't specific. They have a list of, if you go to the APA webpage, it gives you a list of different fonts you can use. When in doubt, go with Times New Roman 12. Okay, that is just kind of the standard. It's a very readable font, and it's kind of, you know, you know, accepted. But it doesn't have to be times 0 and 12, but I would just suggest that you use times 0 and 12. Okay, and then I want to make sure that all my everything in APA formatting is double-spaced. So what I want to do is I want to go to format, and I want to go to line and paragraph spacing, and I want to make sure that is doubled. Okay, so double-spaced. All right, so first thing we're going to do, so this these little things right here, this is just stuff that Google Docs puts here, but as soon as I start working on my document then it's gonna go away. The first thing I'm going to do is add in the page number. Now, unlike previous versions of APA, the only thing that's in there, for our student papers, is just the number. That's it. And the number does go on the first page. So what we're going to do is we're going to go to Insert, and we're going to go to Page Number, okay, and Page Number, and we're going to put it in the top right-hand corner, okay, and And that's it. That's all we have to do. Okay, I mean make sure that you don't have this checked the different first page Because we want it to be Fine, that's the way it is. Okay now to click out of the header We can just you know, double click down here below this boom boom and it goes this way the header Okay, so now we've set up our page number and that's that's as easy as it is Okay, next thing we're going to do is we're going to actually start working on the title page So in APA there is a title page before we have, we actually start to get to the document itself. We've already set up our spacing to double spacing, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to hit the enter button four times, one, two, three, four, okay, and then I'm going to center my text, so how I do that is go do this align and indent, and then hit center, align, okay, and then for the latest edition of APA formatting the title is in bold so what I know so click on B for bold all right and then you can type in the name of the paper now like MLA formatting all the words are capitalized except for very common words so if I'm writing this formatting those are what I can make this bigger so you can see it Yeah, that's better. Okay. Formatting a paper in APA style. So you'll notice that I didn't capitalize A or N, but I capitalized the other ones. Why? I don't know, folks. I didn't create this. I'm just showing you how to do it. Okay. So the title is in bold. Alrighty. And then I'm gonna turn off my bold because that's just the only the title. Next thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna hit the enter button again and then once again and then the next bit of information I need is the name of the person who wrote the paper. So again this is a student paper so I'm gonna put my name and they like middle initials if you have one include your middle initial okay. The next thing is then I'm just gonna hit enter and this is all centered is they want you to put in which department this courses in so let's call this the department of let's call this psychology okay and then a comma and then the name of the school we'll call this the University of University yeah I didn't spell that right okay all right University of University next thing they want you to do is put in the like section of the the course number okay so let's say this is psychology this is what it's called psychology 120 then you put a colon space and then you actually put the name of the class so this wouldn't be let's say intro to psychology okay and then you put the name of the instructor please use their title professor doctor whatever so let's say this is taught by dr. in the and Indiana H Jones bonus points if you can figure out why he's H is the middle name Okay, and then the date now from what I've seen. It's you can use either the American style of doing a date or the European or worldly style so the American style would be like March Oh, and a key point is this is the due date This is the due date of the paper not necessarily when you wrote it, but the due date So this is the American style right where we do March The the month the day then the year Now, there's other parts of the world where they actually write the date, like, 17 March, where they actually do it in the actual order of the smallest day to the largest day. If you go from the smallest period of time, okay, a day is smaller than a month, a month is smaller than a year, you don't need a comma. So as far as I can tell, it doesn't really matter either way. Okay, so that's the information that's on the first page. Okay, now we're getting now. We're ready to start basically writing our our Our paper proper, so here's another cool little trick that you can use if you go to insert and you go to Break and you do page break Boom it'll just put you right at the top of the next page and look there's the number two What I know okay, so then what you're going to do is that at the top of the next page? You need to put the title again now the easiest way to do this is you just I just left-click hold And I will highlight the title. I'm gonna right-click Hit copy, and then I'm gonna come down here where this is right click hit paste Booyah life is good. Okay. Now. We're not done yet because there's a couple other things that you need to be a paying attention to So we're gonna unbold this and we're going to go and change this over to to left align, left align. Okay, now, super important, because if you don't do this step, then it can mess it up when you actually, if you try to convert this file. We need to set up the indentations. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna go to Format, and we're gonna go to Align and Indent, and then we're gonna go over here to Indentation Options. Okay? And we're gonna say, what kind of indent do we want? Well, we want the first line of the paragraph to be indented by 0.5. If you don't do this, it's going to cause a problem. Even if it looks, because if you convert this to a PDF and you don't have this, the PDF won't convert correctly. OK, so that's the thing. So now it's moved over. So then I say, this is the first line of the first paragraph. And then I would just go and start typing my a paper here where I have just just rocking it like a hurricane. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Boom. And then put a period. Okay. And then, um, when I hit enter, you'll notice that it automatically moves it over. Okay. And then I would type in, you know, this is the first line. my second second paragraph, and then you would type more information, you know, Blah, Go with what your instructor tells you, okay? But often I'll have students share this document with me, okay? And then I don't have access. Boo. Or sometimes there are certain programs where it's like you have to submit the paper electronically and it has to really be done as a PDF so that it can be done through a plagiarism checker. save this file as a PDF you go to file and then you go to download and you can actually choose which kind of file you want if you want to do it as Microsoft Word document or whatever but I'm going to save it as a PDF document okay and it just it saved it up here and you can't really see because I've kind of cropped that out okay but I want to show you something here okay so this is what it will look like as a PDF and you notice that it's doing the indenting if you try to convert this file to a PDF and you hadn't in that little didn't then that do that little indenting thing then it won't indent. So that's just a weird thing with that. Anyway so that is how you format a paper in APA style using Google Docs. Alright if you liked this video I have other video tutorials on all sorts of different things so just like and subscribe. Oh I can't believe that I'm the person that said that but yeah do the thing. Alright thank you so much and have fun writing.