Styling Your APA Style Cover Sheet

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They say that a book is judged by its cover—true. Title page is the first thing readers will notice before they even start reading your work. So it becomes really important that you format your title page using the correct APA style.

Instructions on the Correct Way for APA Paper Format

Any minor mistake gives a bad impression about the quality of your work. Presently all colleges and universities prefer the title page to be designed in APA style. Oftentimes, students find it difficult to keep their formatting in the correct APA format—following are a few instructions will make the process easy:

  1. At the top left of the title page, you need to insert a running title. The running title is in caps and made of the title/heading of your work. If the title is too long, try to make it brief here.
  2. The running title should contain not more than fifty words.
  3. Flushed to the right side of the page and adjacent to the running title comes the page number, which should be in form of whole number (no roman numeric allowed).
  4. You now need to mention the title of your research paper, dissertation or essay in the center of the paper. By center, I mean center from the side, not from top—almost half way down the page. The font size of the title should be a point or two larger than the standard Times New Roman, 12.
  5. Right below the title, again in the center, mention the name of the author(s) and the name of the college or university he is affiliated with.
  6. Near the end of the page, the author can provide any additional information of the affiliated institutes, his grants and his contact number or email address so that it becomes easy for the readers to contact him.

These simple and straightforward guidelines, if followed strictly, will result in a perfect title page.

Sample APA Title Page

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TITLE OF PAPER

Your Name

Course Title

Date