APA. The very acronym made her heart sink. She’d spent weeks fine-tuning the margins, the running head, the in-text citations. But the cover page? She’d left it for last, thinking it was just a formality. Now, with only forty-five minutes until the deadline, she realized it was a minefield.
She wrote: Elena M. Vasquez (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-2345-6789). This paper was completed in partial fulfillment of PSY 401. No conflicts of interest to disclose. portada de un trabajo normas apa
Course number and name: one double-spaced line below the institution. PSY 401: Advanced Cognitive Psychology. But the cover page
Panic set in. She added a new page? No—the author note goes on the cover page? Wrong again. In APA, the author note is placed at the bottom of the title page, but only for professional papers. Her assignment was a student paper. She re-read the rubric: “Student papers do not require author notes unless specified.” And the professor had specified. So she added it: a paragraph at the bottom of the page, indented, with the label “Author Note” centered and bolded. She wrote: Elena M
Elena stared at the blank Word document. The cursor blinked mockingly. Her research paper on cognitive biases in decision-making was finished—twenty-three pages of references, statistics, and hard-won analysis. But the professor’s email echoed in her head: “Strict APA 7th edition. Cover page counts. No exceptions.”
But something felt wrong. She pulled up a sample from Purdue OWL. Her title was in bold, yes. But the rest? No bold on name, institution, or course info. She unbolded them quickly.
She opened the APA manual—the physical brick of a book she’d borrowed from the library. Chapter 2: “Title Page.” Her eyes scanned the bullet points.