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hey everybody my name is Isabelle May I'm the director of the Writing Center at the University of Maryland Baltimore and I want to take you through in a few minutes how to successfully set up your cover page and really your paper structure for paper following APA style guidelines okay so I've pulled up here a new document in Word and one thing to know about Word is that the default setting of Microsoft Word does not correspond with the requirements for the default setting for an APA cell paper unfortunately there's a couple of things that I always suggest to do before you even start drafting so the first thing you want to do I always like to do that is to turn on this little hide button or unhide button and looks like the paragraph science so by clicking on it you'll suddenly see there we go you see the little paragraph sign on the page that's not going to print right because it's it's unhidden it just shows you all the formatting the behind-the-scenes formatting so to speak on your page so it can be really useful so the first thing so that then you want you want to do is start actually with your cover page and the cover page and APA is always centered so I'm going to select the center option here and I'm gonna go down with a couple of enter spaces to sort of the middle and type in the title of my paper the effects of chocolate consumption on teenagers my name it's usually the second space at the second line my institutional affiliation either as a publisher or as you know for a course assignment University of Maryland Baltimore should capitalize Baltimore and then if you're doing this for class I always recommend to writers to put in the acronym for the class in the course number so MSH MHS 750 so that's pretty much to set up off my of my cover page and as you can go down a little bit in one space the next thing you want to do before you do anything else is I would highlight everything that is on your first page and then you have to format it with the correct paragraphing so the way to do that is to double to right click on what you've highlighted click on paragraph and you'll get this window this is a really useful window for any formatting issues in Word you always want to have it set on spacing before and after it's zero and the line spacing should always be double you saw how the default setting is different this is the setting you'll need for APA you don't have to worry about margins or the top header and footer if you don't manipulate it let's set up already according to APA standards what you need to change is the line spacing so we click on OK and everything's fine sometimes you might have to move this up a little bit because the spacing just changed a little right ok perfect so the next thing you want to do is to start working on the items that need to go into your header on the first and then subsequent pages so there is this thing called the running head in APA and I'm going to show you what it is in a second but before I show you what it is let's go into the space where it needs to happen index needs to happen up here in the footer in the header so you want to double click with the left click on your mouse double click on it you automatically get into the header now it's super simple in the header the first thing you want to do this pane comes up automatically and Microsoft Office on pcs on Mac sometimes you have to look for it you want to click on different first page because your first page or the header on your first page is going to look different than on your second and subsequent pages the next thing you want to do is insert page numbers so you go on the insert tab on top here look for page numbers the page number is always top of the page plain number 3 there we go and then the running head actually literally you're right in running head the words running head with a colon space and then your title in caps and sometimes if your title is really long you don't want to put the whole title in there so it shouldn't be longer than three or four maybe five words I think there's a character limit on it I don't remember the exact number but usually four or five words of your title if you can all imbrie v8 it version of your title so I'm gonna call this effects of chocolate consumption and there we go all right so I'm done with my first page yeehaw so then I have to start figuring out okay what we are going to do in pages two and then later it's very simple so double click back on the main text so you get out of the header which I'm doing right here I always like to insert a page break here right so it automatically starts me on page two and then you'll see how in the header on the second page you see nothing in there remember a different first page so we have to do some work on the header on the second page before we even go there I would always recommend sometimes the the cursor stays centered because you centered parts of your first page so on the home button you can click on the left align and you're safe with that so let's double click again with the left on our mouse the left click on your mouse on the top here so we get into the header you see it still says different first page right so now we have to format the second page so we have to get the page number on there and then we do the same process that we did earlier we click on insert page number top of page plain number three and boom there we are and then here what you put in here is the actual title or what you have is your running head on the first page but just the stuff that's in caps I'm gonna actually copy and paste this make my life a little easier and voila here you are and you click back on the main text and you can continue you know drafting whatever you want to draft an additional thing that is useful to do since you're already here my page is to go down a couple of spaces here I would insert another page break it gets you to page three I would actually set up your reference page already and to do that the formatting in APA you said you Center the the heading references let me get out of caps references there we are and then you aligned its left and you're good to go notice that references the heading references is not bolded not italicize and underline just plain plain plain language plain lettering right different from other headings within your text so that's basically how you do it and any questions email us at writing Center at you Maryland dot edu again it's Writing Center one word at you Maryland edu thanks guys