A complete paper, start to finish

Watch a paper get written, cited, and turned in.

No slideshow, no reenactment. This is the real application, recorded in one pass. Scroll to move through it at your own pace.

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Step 01

Start the paper, not the formatting.

Name it, pick APA 7, choose the class. That is the whole setup. PERRLA handles what the format actually requires.

Six fields, then you are writing
Step 02

The whole document is already built.

Title page, running head, page numbers, section headings and the reference page, all in place before you start. From there it is an ordinary editor: type, paste and format exactly like you would in Word or Google Docs.

Sections, formatting and elements: ready
Step 03

Add a reference in a few fields.

Look it up or enter it by hand. PERRLA asks for the parts of the source, never for the punctuation, and shows you the finished reference as you fill it in.

Live preview while you type
Step 04

Cite it exactly where the cursor is.

Choose what belongs in the citation and what it points to. It lands in the sentence correctly punctuated, and the reference page updates itself.

(Morris, 2007, p. 47)
Step 05

Check it, then download it.

PERRLA reviews the paper against the format rules and tells you what it found. When it is clean, take it as a Word document or a PDF.

No issues found, ready to turn in
Step 06

It opens in Word already finished.

A real .docx: title page, body, citations and a formatted reference page. Nothing to clean up, nothing to reformat. Attach it and turn it in.

Opens clean in Microsoft Word
Creating a research paper in PERRLA: the setup form filled in.A formatted APA title page in the PERRLA editor.Adding a reference in PERRLA.Inserting a citation into the paper.Downloading the finished paper as a Word document.The finished paper open in Microsoft Word.

You wrote it. PERRLA did everything else.

Every citation, the reference page, the title page, the margins and the running head, all formatted while you write, then handed to you as a Word document that is ready to turn in.

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