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 um because why not all right so there's several different ways you can do this um 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 about January of 2024 um anyway so the font actually isn't specific um they have a list of if you go to the APA web page it gives you a list of different fonts you can use um one in doubt go with Times New Roman 12 okay um 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 New Roman 12 but I would just suggest that you use Times New Roman 12 okay and then I want to make sure that all my um 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 um 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 going to go away um the first thing I'm going to do is add in the page number now unlike previous version of APA there's the only thing that's in there for 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 go to page number okay and page number and we're going to put it in the top right hand corner okay and that's it that's all we have to do okay I me make sure that you don't have this checked the different first page because we want it to 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 1 2 3 4 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 um like MLA formatting all the words are capitalized except for very common words so if I'm writing this formatting is there a way I can make this bigger so you can see it yeah that's better okay formatting a paper in AA 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 all righty and then I'm going to turn off my bold cuz that's just the only the title next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to 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 this I'm going to put my name and they like middle initials if you have one um include your middle initial okay the next thing is then I'm just going to hit enter and this is all centered is they want you to put in which department this uh course is 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 the the 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 one would be let's say intro to psychology okay and then you put the name of the instr instructor please use their title Professor doctor whatever so let's say this is taught by Dr [Music] indana Indiana H Jones bonus points if you can figure out why I used H as the middle name okay and then the date now um 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 side would be like March oh and keep working this 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 uh the the month the day than the year um 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 smallest 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 that doesn't really matter either way okay so that's the information that's on the first page okay now we can now we're ready to start um 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 on hold and I will highlight the title I'm going to right click hit copy and then I'm going to come down here where this is rightclick hit paste booya life is good okay now we're not done yet because there's a couple other things you need to be paying attention to um so we're going to unbold this and we're going to go and change this over to left Al line left Al line okay now super important because um 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 going to do is we're going to go to format and we're going to go to align and indent and we're going to go over here to indentation options okay and we're going to 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 um even if it looks because if you convert this to a PDF and you don't have this the PDF won't convert correctly okay so that's the thing so now it's moved over so now I can say this is the first line of the first first paragraph okay 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 of my second oops second paragraph and then you would type more information you know blah blah okay blue okay fantastic okay so when we look at it so this is how it looks okay you notice that everything here is double SPAC there's no Extra Spaces anywhere okay now um basically you're good to go but I'm going to show you another trick that is very helpful um as a professor and I've worked at different schools okay often I'll have students again go with what your school tells you 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 and or sometimes um there's certain programs where it's like you have to submit the paper electronically and it has to really be done as like a PDF so that the it can be done through a plagiarism Checker um to to 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 a 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 you can't really see because I've kind of cop that out okay but I want to show you something here okay so this is what it would look like as a PDF and you notice that it's do any indenting if you try to convert this file to a PDF and you hadn't in that little didn't didn't 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 and APA style using Google Docs all right uh if you like this video I have other video tutorials on all sorts of different things so just uh like And subscribe oh I can't believe that I'm the the that person that said that but yeah do the thing all right thank you so much 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