A Microsoft Word template for creating documents in APA 7 format.
See the changelog for updates or the GitHub issues for the development pathway.
Issues and PRs are welcomed.
Download the template into your User templates directory, or any convenient location. Double-click the template to create a new blank document using the template.
These styles are inlined in APA. (Really, who invents this stuff?) Anyway, that means you'll have to use character styles for them, but you can also choose the template's Heading 4 and Heading 5 experimental styles which are -- not kidding -- embedded in frames. You'll have to make the first paragraph after these styles Body Flush.
APA style does not have a problem with widows and orphans. That is, a heading can be the last line of a page, and a sentence can end in the first line of a new page. The justification for this is that these are presentation considerations, and APA is all about preparing an article to submit to a journal. The journal itself will handle all these little details for you.
But... it looks pretty stupid. I've put an on/off switch for widows an orphans on the development pathway.
In APA, the first paragraph of a section should not differ from any other paragraph. However, the first paragraph after block quotes (style: Block Text) is (usually) a continuation of the paragraph from before the block. A style Body Flush exists for that
There are some packages (like Writage, that allows you to paste markdown; and pandoc) that create certain styles by default. These are handled by creating synonyms. Here are the examples and how they are handled:
| package | style issue |
|---|---|
| pandoc | Pandoc uses a paragraph style called Compact for table text; this has been created as a synonym for Table Text. You'll have to set the headers yourself. |
| pandoc | If you have a title value in the file's frontmatter, it will be added to your final document with style Title, which has been created as a synonym to Title Page Title. If you're writing a manuscript with sections, however, you probably want this to be Header 1. (The best practice is probably not to use a title in your frontmatter; just include headings in the text.) |
| pandoc, Writage | These packages create a First Paragraph style; in this template is is considered a synonym for Body Text. See the note above about block quotes, however. |
APA 7 says that tables can have single, 1.5, or double spacing. The default in this template is 1.5.