Student Title Page Guide, APA Style 7th Edition

7th Edition

Student Title Page Guide

NOTE: These guidelines should be used to create title pages for student papers. However, if instructors or institutions provide different

guidance, students should abide by those directions.

TITLE PAGE: The title page needs to provide information about the paper’s topic and authors and the course to

which it is being submitted.

Title Page Content

A student title page includes the following elements:

• title of the paper

• author(s)

include the full names of all authors of the

paper; use the form rst name, middle initial,

last name (e.g., Betsy R. Klein)

if two authors, separate with the word “and”

(e.g., Ainsley E. Baum and Lucy K. Reid)

if three or more authors, separate each name

with a comma and write the word “and” before

the last author (e.g., Riley S. Rodrigo, Dev M.

Kumar, and Aidan T. Zhang)

for names with sufxes, separate the sufx

from the rest of the name with a space, not a

comma (e.g., Felicien L. Cooke Jr.)

• afliation

is usually the university the author(s) attended

include the name of the department or

division, followed by the name of the university,

separated by a comma (e.g., Department of

Psychology, University of Nebraska)

• course name and number

use the format shown on institutional materials

for the course to which the paper is being

submitted (e.g., PSY 202, NURS101)

• instructor name

use the instructor’s preferred designation

(e.g., Dr., Professor) and spelling

• assignment due date

use the month, date, and year format used in

your country

spell out the month (e.g., March 6, 2020)

• header with the page number

Title Page Format

• recommended fonts: 11-point Calibri, 11-point

Arial, 10-point Lucida Sans Unicode, 12-point

Times New Roman, 11-point Georgia, or 10-point

Computer Modern

• 1-in. margins on all sides

• placement: rst page of the paper

• title, author name(s), university, course name and

number, instructor name, assignment due date

positioned in the upper-middle of the page

(3 or 4 lines below the top of the page)

centered

double-spaced

not bold or italic, except for the paper title

(see more in the next section)

each element placed on a separate line

no extra lines added between elements,

except after the paper title (see more in the

next section)

• header:

page number (starting at 1) in the top right

corner inserted using the automatic page-

numbering function of your word-processing

program

no running head

Special Considerations

for the Paper Title

• written in title case

capitalize the rst word of the title and the rst

word of any subtitle (after a colon, dash, etc.)

capitalize all major words in the title (i.e.,

nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns,

and words of four letters or more)

capitalize the second part of hyphenated major

words (e.g., “Self-Report”)

lowercase minor short words (i.e.,

conjunctions of three letters or fewer;

prepositions of three letters or fewer; and

articles “a,” “an,” and “the”)

also capitalize “is” and “be” (because they are

verbs) and “with” (because it has four letters)

• bold

• place one double-spaced blank line between the

paper title and the author names

Academic Writer includes formatting tools and

structured forms to help you seamlessly format

your title page in APA Style.

Unless requested otherwise; consult your instructor for appropriate formatting guidelines.

The running head is not required for student papers unless requested by your instructor or institution. The running head is an abbreviated version of the paper

title that is 50 characters or fewer, counting letters, punctuation, and spaces between words as characters. If requested, it should appear in the page header,

ush left and across from the right-aligned page number. It should be written in ALL-CAPITAL letters.

More information on elements to include in a student title page can be found in the

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.) Sections 2.3

to 2.6 and in the Concise Guide to APA Style (7th ed.) Sections 1.5 to 1.9.

SOURCE: American Psychological Association. (2020).

Publication manual of the American Psychological

Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000

CREDIT: ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT