Click on any of the numbers for more information on a specific topic. If you have a popup blocker, be sure to turn it off. 1 First, make sure Dr Paper is installed properly. If the program is installed properly you will have 3 black and red icons on your desktop, and a new item on your Programs menu. Now that Dr. Paper is installed, make sure you take a moment to REGISTER if you haven't done so yet! Also take a moment before doing anything else to look at the sample APA papers. 2 Create a Test Document. Start Word, and click Dr Paper, New Document. Set the options for the type of Dr Paper Document Template you want to use for the new document (APA, MLA, or Turabian, etc.). Fill in the dialog with Your name Your school Course, Instructor, Date submitted [January 22, 2006] Title [capitalize all significant words] Running head: [AN ABBREVIATION OF YOUR TITLE: ALL CAPS] Short title for the page header: First two or three words of your title. Click OK, and start typing your paper. The Dr Paper macro creates a word document with the margins set, page numbers in the right place, and a cover page created. And the built-in styles on the menu bar at the the top allow you to easily switch between body text, quotations, and section headings. Note: The first time you start Word after you install Dr. Paper, you may see a Security Warning dialog appear. First, check the "Always trust macros from this publisher" box, then select Enable Macros. 3 SAVE your new document with a new name. As soon as the paper is created, SAVE IT with a new name. This is a WORD document now. You can edit it like any other Word document. 4 Practice using the Word Styles for body text and section headings. Dr Paper creates a Word document with Styles that make it easy to conform to the APA rules for the way body text, quotations, and section headings should look. Take a moment now to practice a bit with these Styles: Type a few nonsense sentences to replace the text "Start typing the text of your paper here." This text is BODY TEXT; it is 12 point Courier New, double spaced, as it should be for an APA or MLA Paper (there is also a template with Times New Roman, if you prefer that font. Both are acceptable for APA or MLA papers). Now press Enter so that the cursor is on a blank line, and click the button labeled "Heading 1" on the Styles Toolbar. Type the word Method, and press Enter. Type another sentence. Notice the Style returns to BODY TEXT. 5 Set up your computer's desktop so you can write your paper and cite sources. Resizing the Word window, and making a space on your desktop for both Word and CiteWrite will make it easier to do your references as you are writing. Here's how to do this: First, resize the Word window so it doesn't take up your entire screen. Click the middle button in the top right corner of the Word window, and then move the cursor over the edge of the window. When you do this, the cursor will become a two-sided arrow ( <--> ). With the cursor over the edge, press and hold the left mouse button, and drag the edge of the window in. You can do this on all sides of the Word window. Start CiteWrite, and position it alongside Word on your desktop. Click Start, All Programs, Dr Paper Software, References-CiteWrite to start CiteWrite. Then you can put your cursor over the top of the wondow and press and hold the left mouse button to drag the CiteWrite window alongside the Word window. 6 Insert an intext citation (Author, Date) into your practice document. APA style requires in text citations for references, as well as a Reference List. Use the sample record in CiteWrite to practice inserting an Author, Date cite into your document. Click on your Word document, and type a nonsense sentence, with a period and a space. Make sure you can see the cursor blinking. Click Start, All Programs, Dr Paper Software, Sample CiteWrite Entries. CiteWrite starts with a sample record, showing you how names should be entered, titles, etc. Move CiteWrite to one side of the screen, so that you can view your document and the CiteWrite datafile at the same time. On the CiteWrite menu, click Format, In text cites in Preview Box to display a formatted Author, Date cite in the Preview Box. Click on the Insert tab, and then click on your Word document. An in text citation will be there. If you don't see an in text citation in the document, just press Ctrl+V (or Edit, Paste) to insert the Author, Date citation into your paper. 7 Enter a practice record in CiteWrite. For each work that you read as you are researching your paper topic, you should add a "notecard" or "record" to your CiteWrite datafile. Practice adding one now: Click Edit, Add Record, and choose the form for a Book. Notice that CiteWrite has forms for just about any type of work you might use as research material. Now type the bibliographic information in the appropriate fields: Author Jones, Alan; Smith, Jane Year 2006 Title How to use Dr Paper: a brief guide Place New York Publisher Preston Press Once you finish entering the bibliographic information, click File, Save. Notice that CiteWrite formats the in text citation as you type in the information. You can enter keywords and an abstract (a short summary of the main point of the work) for your own research materials if you like. Before continuing, take a moment to read through the CiteWrite Guidelines and Illustrations. 8 Inserting intext citations (Author, Date) into your paper as you are writing. Now that you've entered a practice record in CiteWrite, let's practice inserting an in text cite one more time: Click on your Word document, and type another nonsense sentence. Type a period and a space, and make sure you can see the cursor blinking. Click on CiteWrite, and locate the work you want to cite in your datafile. Click Format, Find Records in Short List, to display a list of all the entries in your CiteWrite datafile. Double click on the entry you want to cite. Click Format, In text cites in Preview Box, to display a formatted Author, Date cite in the Preview Box. Click on the Insert tab. Click on your Word document. The intext citation should be at the end of the sentence you just typed. Again, if you don't see the in text citation in your document, just press Ctrl+V (or Edit, Paste) to insert the Author, Date citation into your paper. 9 Writing a Reference List. Go to the end of your paper, where it says Insert References Here, and put the cursor before the word "Insert." Click on the CiteWrite icon, and then click Format, Write Bibliography (Reference List). On the dialog, make sure "Alphabetize" is checked, and then click OK. CiteWrite formats all the entries in APA Style and then alphabetizes them. Click back on your Word document to view the Reference List. (If you do not see the Reference List, press Ctrl+V to write the Reference List to the document.) Check to make sure Word has not justified the text (if it has, you will see spaces in the References). If you see gaps in the text, highlight the entire Reference List, and then click Format, Styles and Formatting, and click on the style called References. And that's all there is to it! Before ending your practice session: ADD A RECORD FOR A WORK YOU WILL CITE IN YOUR FIRST PAPER DELETE THE SAMPLE RECORD & PRACTICE RECORD LOOK OVER THE HELP FILES. After finishing the practice session -- Click here for a summary of APA Style Guidelines or MLA Style Guidlines and here for sample APA Papers or MLA Papers. Ó 2006 The Write Direction. Citation is a registered trademark of Oberon.