I am back in school, and that means research papers, hooray. I am being smarter about it all these days though–templates and citation management software are definitely the way to go!
It would sure be nice if Apple would include templates for the major paper formats with their word processor. And all the ones I could find that others had posted were either not really templates, or got the formatting wrong.
So I created one based off of their research paper template that references the latest rules at Purdue. I couldn’t have done it so quickly if it weren’t for this great tutorial over at the Mac Law Students website, thanks for the handy write-up.
So, if you came here looking for a free APA template for Pages, try this one out and let me know if it works for you: APA template for Pages 09′.
Updated July 17, 2009: Fixed a few annoyances in the template (page titles were not repeating and hyphenation was set for document.)
17 Responses to “Apple STILL doesn’t have an APA template for Pages?”
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“Perdue”?
Perdew?
Purdoo?
Purdue!
Install river point writer, there is a version for Mac and it will format and build references for you.
it seems to be working Great My friend, Thank You from Manaus, Amazonas – Brazil
brilliant! thank you so much for doing this.
Hi there!
Thanks for the template! It’s helpful to me as a researcher writing in APA format.
This is great, thank you so much! Do you know how to coax pages into helping you create citations, preferable without having to buy endnote? I just bought my first mac, and just installed pages. I was told that Pages will create APA references, but so far I have not found how to do it. Thanks for your help!
I use Zotero for citation management–it is not integrated with Pages, but it is easy enough that the differences between the programs wasn’t worth the cost of Endnote.
I discovered CiteInPages scripts yesterday (URL: http://jhh.med.virginia.edu/main/CiteInPages). It seems to work quite well so far, even if the references might need some tweaking to comply formally with APA recommendations.
Huge thanks for Pages’ APA template !
Well… it looks pretty good to me? any changes due to the 6th edition of the APA
Oh My gosh!!!! Endnote is simply outrageously expensive!!! I will give Zotero a try. Any notes on Zotero?
This is great! Thanks for taking the time to do this.
This is helpful! Thank you. I am trying to create a form template when doing initial patient evaluations. In MS Word, it is possible to create a form with boxes that I can select (e.g., behavioral observations, etc.). Is it possible to do this in Pages, and if so, how? I haven’t been able to figure this out. In advance, many thanks for the assistance.
Thank you so much for this template.
Any luck using this template with Pages on an iPad?
If you have a Mac try Sente (google it) it might not be a freebee but its is heads and tales above Endnote which I spent a fortune on and was sorely disappointed! Sente was created for a Mac rather than a Endnote which was created for a PC and then adapted (poorly) for a Mac. Sente also has an IPAD app if that appeals to those who need portability. Thanks for the APA template! It was the only one on here that I could find!
Thank you so much. This has helped immensely in my Business Management classes!
Thank you so much for doing this. I really appreciate the time you took to do this – and your generosity in sharing it!