Danged 4-character search requirement.

So I'm taking some classes to get back into the swing of the school thing before applying formally to grad school. Luckily they have copies of all course syllabi on the student web portal.

Just about every class has a writing component and they want all papers to use APA (preferred) or at least MLA style, formatting and citation structure. A coworker (new college grad) mentioned that she used some kind of template software that came with her critical writing course textbook.

I've just started poking around and see this category of software goes from simple pre-formatted templates all the way to research materials management databases and auto-formatting macros.

Any suggestions? I use Word 2003 on my work laptop and Word 2007 on my personal laptop.

TIA