Dominga Jeffery
Dominga Jeffery voted up Cindy Lou's answer

It's a legal requirement you put your legal name on your paperwork. However, I have seen it done this way:

James Alan ("goes by" Keith) Smith

You have to put the words "goes by" in quotes. You have to write it exactly like I have it with the parenthesis too.

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Dominga Jeffery
Dominga Jeffery voted up Cookie Roma's answer

On your employment paperwork you use your legal name.  Then you can tell people at work the name by which you prefer to be addressed.