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#HOW TO SINGLE SPACE IN WORD FOR MAC FOR MAC OS#

The selection will default to the format of the text you have selected (your reference), which is correct. Select a reference that you just formatted by dragging over it with your mouse

You’ll likely add / remove references in the process of editing, so it’s best to save the reference style for quick application in the future. Drag diagonally on your project to create a new text frame, or click on an existing text frame with the Selection tool. Select the Type tool in the main Tools panel (or press the T key). That’s it! Your references should be in good shape. First, load your current InDesign project or start a new document by selecting 'File' > 'New' > 'Document'. Click ok.Į) Set your font to Times New Roman, size 12. This is the amount of space to leave between paragraph blocks. And unlike the rest of your paper they should be single spaced.ĭo NOT add tabs to do this, there’s a better way:Ī) Select all your references by dragging over them with your mouse.ĭ) In Spacing ensure line-spacing is ‘Single’, and enter ‘16pt’ in the field labelled ‘after’. Harvard Educational Review, 33(1) 1-20.ĪPA requires that all lines other than the first be ‘hanging’, that means indenting them by 1/2 inch. Then the journal in Italics “ Harvard Educational Review”.If you don't see the icon, from the View menu, choose Toolbars, and then check Standard.

#HOW TO SINGLE SPACE IN WORD FOR MAC FOR MAC OS#

In Word for Mac OS X, click the paragraph icon in the Standard toolbar. Not every word is capitalized: “How to format references” In Word for Windows, on the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click the paragraph icon.

Then you put the year of the paper in parens (1994).

Authors are listed Surname, Initials: “Rathbone, M.A.”.

Seeing as I’m usually the dogs-body who ends up fixing APA reference formatting on an almost weekly basis, I thought I’d document it so maybe my wife will learn how (hint hint). If you’re like my wife, you’ll likely start inserting tabs and newlines all over the place, but then if you ever have to edit your references you’ll end up with a mess you’ll have to fix manually, which can be frustrating. If you write a lot of academic papers in the social sciences (like my wife does) you’re likely going to have to manually format some references at one time or another.