APA Student Paper

Title page

1. Write your title

On your keyboard, press Enter three or four times. Go to the Home tab, center the text, write your title and put it in bold. You want to write it in title case, meaning that all important words start with a capital letter, but you should not use abbreviations in the title. If you have a longer title, or a subtitle, you can split it on to the next line. 

2. State who wrote the paper

On your keyboard, press Enter twice to put a space between the title and author byline. Disselect from the Home tab the Bold option. Write the author or authors. You should include your first name, middle initial, and last name. If there are more than one authors, separate each person with a comma, and write out ‘and’ before the final author. Do not include any titles or degrees. When you finish writing the author(s) names, press Enter to move on to a new line.

3. State your affiliation

Your affiliation is your department and university, separated by a comma. After writing your affiliation, press Enter to move on to a new line.

4. State the course number and course title

The course number and title should match the way the school or instructor has it listed. After writing the course number and title, press Enter to move on to a new line.

5. State the course instructor’s name

If your instructor has a doctoral degree, you can start with ‘Dr.’ or put ‘PhD’ after their name. Or you could just put ‘Professor’ in front of their name. If your instructor doesn’t have a doctoral degree, you could also put ‘Ms.’ or ‘Mrs.’ or ‘Mr.’ in front of their name. After writing the instructor's name press Enter to move on to a new line.

6. State the assignment’s due date

Write out the due date based on how your country does it. So, if you put the day before the month, do that here. Go to the Insert tab and add a page break to ensure that the text (body) of your paper will start on a new page.

Once you’ve done that, you have finished formatting the title page, and you are ready to move on to formatting the text (body) of your paper.

If your instructor requires you to add an abstract, consult the abstract page of the APA Professional Paper.