When I was an undergraduate in nursing school, our papers had to be written in APA format, much like in nursing school now. The APA manual was a thin paperback-hardly a paperback, more like a pamphlet- that described how you would site different sources and list them in your bibliography. At that time, citing Internet sources and pdf files was unheard of. Research was done in a library. Indenting was easy- you did it on your typewriter (now I do feel like a fossil)
Presently, the APA manual that I own is many times the size of my original (I wish I could find my original for kicks & giggles) and tells you how to cite sources I never would have thought of using in the 80's. After returning to school, trying to make APA fit on a MS Word document and meet its criteria took almost as long as the writing assignment. I would do my best, but ultimately, I would lose points for APA format. Years ago, a friend of mine turned me on to APA assistance that would rock my world.
http://www.refpt.net/APA_features.htm
Reference point APA software- it works with your MS office word software, and like magic, transforms your ordinary document into APA- the running head, the title page are easy. It makes your bibliography perfect, cites your resources like a dream. It practically write your papers for you, It saves so much time, time better spent on writing the paper than figuring out how to double space your document without being a certified MS Office instructor. After all, I’m a nurse, not Bill Gates!
It is the best spent $30 of your graduate school career, and I get no kickback from telling everyone how awesome it is. I wish I had found it sooner, it surely would have meant a higher grade point average early on.