 In this screencast I will explain the use of the APA document template and how you can insert citations with Zotero reference management software. So we have Zotero open here and now we'll switch to Word and we'll start a new template, new APA document. So whenever you want to start a new document you just file a new front template and then you get the window that we have here. And this is the building templates that you have and I have the APA style paper installed already. But if you don't have that type APA to the search bar and then Word will load different templates from the internet. And we want to have a paper, not a report, and we'll use the first document here. These are just different versions of the same thing basically. So we'll double click on that and it will give us a new document. And this document template contains text styles and it contains explanation of how to use the template. So when you apply the template I usually open the styles pane first and I'll switch on the style guide. So I can see which styles this document actually uses. So these styles are in use and they're in a color coded. So I'll see which one is used and where. And if you work on an article then you should generally have this title page. But if you just work on a school assignment or something like that then you can just delete autonaut because there are no acknowledgments that you need to make or no conflict of interest that you need to declare. So you can delete that. And then there is the table of contents and if you are working on a short report let's say 10 or 20 pages then having a table of content may not be necessary so you can delete that as well. Typically when you submit an article to a journal you don't have the table of contents either because that's not the convention but when I write things, articles myself I usually have a table of contents here during the writing because it helps me to keep track of how much space I spend on each section. So let's just delete the table of contents for now. So we don't need that either. And then we have the abstract. If you have something like a final report for a course or if you have a paper that you're writing for a journal then you should have an abstract. It tells the reader a short explanation of what the document is about. Perhaps the main result, the motivation for writing the document, that kind of things. And for journals you also need to have keywords that allow other people to find the article in insurance. But if you are just working on an assignment for a school or school project then you can just delete the keywords. No need to have that. Now if you're just working on a weekly writing assignment using this template then you may also consider eliminating the title page or the abstract. Let's take the abstract away. So if we're just working on a weekly paper instead of a final report that is the weekly paper could be like two or three or five pages then having an abstract would be an overkill. So we delete that as well. And then we get to actually to the writing of the paper. And now we can see that these different headings are here. So you of course delete all these things and write your own or you can start writing your own things over these headings. But they show you the different styles that are used. So headings use heading one, heading two, heading three and so on. And then this normal body text uses the normal style. So you know that these styles are used and then it gives you the APS style. Then in the end of the document we have the references. We will replace this set of references with something that Jodero generates for us and then there are explanations of food notes, explanation of how you add tables. In this document style you always add the tables to the end of the document and figures to the end of the document. And that's what you should do in an article if you are working on a school project then you can have the figures and tables flowing in the text as well. So there's no need to have it in there. And let's just delete all this stuff because we are not going to be using that at the moment. So we need the reference section and let's type here our title, example paper or we can delete that and type example paper that's heading one. And we can add a page break because it was deleted for some reason or just paragraph and page break before. All right. And then we delete the text and we start writing our own things. So we write our own things here and this is going to be normal style and I'll just use a text from Singleton straights and that's how Singleton straights defined reliability. All right. And how do we add citations to this document? So this is just copied from the text and we need to do two things because this has been copied from the book. First we add quotation marks around it and then we replace these double quotation marks with a single quotation marks just to make it clear that this quote here is not an ending of this quote but it's just a quote within the quote. And then we need to site the book and to site the book we open the Zotero tab here and there's add and edit citation. There's a keyboard shortcut for this as well and if you use this heavily then using the keyboard shortcut is faster than going through the tab but we'll just do add and edit citation. Now the software will ask us for a citation style. We'll choose American Psychological Association like so and then we have this bar that comes up and we start typing, for example, the authors and it searches for items and I have a fairly large library so it may take a while to find it and we know that this is Singleton straights 2018 we choose that and then we need to have the page number here so we have the page, I don't remember the page but let's say just XYZ. If you want to cite chapters or something else you can change here what specific part you cite typically you cite with page numbers and we click OK. So this is the way that you cite quotations or cite direct quotations. There are also other ways that you can do this citation or do this text. Sometimes you want to emphasize that a particular source says something for example if you are working on a course paper and the assignment is to tell how a certain source defines some concepts then we can cite, we can write this slightly different so I'm copying it and so we can do and now that we have the names of the authors here already we can do the citation a little bit differently so we do add an edit citation and we choose supers author here the reason why we supers the author is that the author names have already been mentioned and so this is one way to do the citation but this is not actually the right way when you have this kind of construction that you are first giving the author names then you should have as a part of your text then the citation actually should go here so it goes here and then we have the page number here at the end so that doesn't need to be done with Zotero and you actually can't because this is really not associated with any citation and then we don't have the page number here anymore so we just say that this is what singleton as rates say if we just, we can also do other things for example we can say that reliability can be defined as or let's say reliability is commonly defined as the degree of stability this is such a short part that we don't generally, we are just saying that it's about stability and so we don't need to have quotations because we're just using a single word from the source okay so if we say that it's commonly defined as a degree of stability we can add the citation to singleton as rates but we may want to emphasize this is just an example of how people commonly define reliability as a degree of stability and we can use these prefix and suffix to add things inside the citation so we can use EG so that's example for example and this would mean that reliability is commonly defined as the degree of stability for an example of such definition see singleton as rates and we of course need to have the page number because we are citing a book so I'm just going to bring it up with a keyboard shortcut and it's going to be XYZ I don't remember the page number also we can use the suffix and let's say that we would like to claim that reliability there are different definitions of let's say validity and now we could do something like this so we still cite singleton as rates and we can do for example for a C for a review and this prefix and suffix will be added to the citation as you can see here in the preview and this is another way so if you want to add text inside the citation which is completely okay then you use the prefix and suffix so this is the basic way of using Zotero one thing that you should know that it is possible to edit this directly but you should not do that because then Zotero cannot update it anymore and for example if you have misspelled the name of singleton in your database of articles and if you want to fix it later on then if you manually edit this text here then Zotero cannot update it anymore