APA Style Helper 3.0: Software for New Writers in the Behavioral Sciences (CD-ROM, Individual Version) [CD-ROM]

American Psychological Association (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 15, 2001

Writing just got easier-thanks to the new APA Style Helper 3.0, the companion to the APA Publication Manual, fifth edition. The APA Style Helper 3.0 gives writers clear and straightforward help on formatting references, headings, and more.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

If you're a student or professional struggling with psychology research papers, the APA-Style Helper can save your sanity. This software helps format headings, citations, statistics, tables, and references according to the new 5th edition of the APA style guide. It's also compatible with most word processing software. --Carolyn Lewis

From the Publisher

The APA-Style Helper is a tool to aid those writing in APA-Style. The program helps the student in formatting the basic components of a paper, and is a big help in assembling your reference list. We regret that some users have had difficulty using the program. We respond to all reports of technical difficulties by the next business day and make every effort to see that the program is working and helpful for the user.

We have issued a patch for the program that addresses all issues brought to our attention thus far. There is a convenient "auto-update" feature in most versions of the program that enables you to easily obtain the latest version of the program.

This program is an aid to writing in APA-Style, but does not replace knowledge of APA-Style, or having a copy of the Publication Manual to refer to. If anyone has questions about the program, what it will or won't do, or other questions, we invite you to view the web site above, and contact us at [e-mail] if you have further questions.

Product Details

• CD-ROM
• Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA); CD-Rom edition (July 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557988307
• ISBN-13: 978-1557988300
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 8.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #415,467 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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188 of 188 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Promising, but Buggy Software, November 23, 2001

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Christopher Reagoso (West Chester, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: APA Style Helper 3.0: Software for New Writers in the Behavioral Sciences (CD-ROM, Individual Version) (CD-ROM)

APA-Style Helper 3.0 claims to allow a user to create a manuscript by prompting the user for the title, running head, author, abstract information, and all of their references. After the user provides this information APA-Style Helper 3.0 creates a rich-text file that Microsoft Word can read - it fully supports paragraph styles.

The user encounters problems when entering references. If you edit a reference in your manuscript, your first reference is lost. If you add a reference after saving, closing the software, and opening it again, you lose two of your first references.

APA-Style Helper 3.0 is a very promising package, but the vendor's lack of testing is very disappointing considering this problem was discovered after adding only three references. The APA is aware of the problems and promises a patch is on the way.

Avoid APA-Style Helper 3.0 until version 3.1 or a patch for 3.0 is released.

104 of 105 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not very good, unless you know what you are doing!, December 23, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: APA Style Helper 3.0: Software for New Writers in the Behavioral Sciences (CD-ROM, Individual Version) (CD-ROM)

I bought this, because my proffesor told us that we had to switch from 4th edition APA to the 5th half-way during the semester, without instructions on what was new! Well, I found this a very hard program to use. I basically used it to do my references. I found it very hard to save my manual as a Word document. The instructions provided are not very easy to folow, and even when you have finished your manual, and saved it as a Word document, you will still have to play around with the Word doc to correct some of the "assumptions" that this program makes. All in all, this is good when you are in a pinch, but it is not reliable enough to use for all of your papers.

113 of 115 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Style-Helper does not work, February 10, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: APA Style Helper 3.0: Software for New Writers in the Behavioral Sciences (CD-ROM, Individual Version) (CD-ROM)

After entering all of the required information in both the title page area and the reference area, the software fails to open the selected word processing program (Microsoft Word 2000). The references are lost if you try to modify them and they do not format properly. You cannot just print off the references, which I tried to do when Word would not open. Essentially all of my work was "lost" and I had to make multiple screen prints of the entries and try to recreate them from scratch. I am surprised that better quality control and testing was not done before marketing this product. I contacted "help" on the apa website on 1/26/02 and to date (2/17/02) have never had anything other than an automatic response to my inquiry for assistance. They promised to follow-up in 24 hours, but never did.