De Un Trabajo Normas Apa: Portada

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.”

Institution: one double-spaced line below the name. University of Northwood.

She smiled. Then she went to bed, dreaming of hanging indents and serif fonts. portada de un trabajo normas apa

Elena closed her laptop and exhaled. The cover page—three inches of text, margins, and a header—had nearly undone six weeks of research. But she’d learned something that night. APA wasn’t about torture. It was about clarity, consistency, and respect for the reader. And a perfect cover page? It was the handshake before the conversation.

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. Elena stared at the blank Word document

Her hands were shaking. The clock read 11:47 p.m. Deadline: midnight.

So far, so good. But then she remembered: the running head. On the cover page, APA 7th edition requires the running head in all capital letters, flush left, and the page number flush right. No “Running head:” label anymore—that was from the old version. But the professor’s email echoed in her head:

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.