kb1jec@[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm writing an APA format research paper on the topic of gun control. > This is one of the first such papers I have written (this is my first > semester in college). The instructor's instructions were rather vague > and he just stated he wanted the paper in APA format. If you are using almost any variant of TeX there is at least one package for APA format. http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/apa/ http://www.ilsp.gr/homepages/protopapas/apacls.html Googling for APA style guide gives these amongst its top results: http://apastyle.apa.org/ http://www.uwsp.edu/PSYCH/apa4b.htm (includes a Word2002 template) http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ Owain