APA requires that you place "Running head: TITLE OF YOUR PAPER" in the left-hand corner of your paper and the page number in the right. Here's how to do this in Word 2016:
1. First go to the Insert tab. Select Header, and then choose Edit Header.
2. Once we clicked Edit Header, the Header & Footer Tools tab opened up. Now check off the “Different First Page” box. This is because APA requires that the first page header be slightly different than subsequent pages.
3. Select “Page Number” and “Top of Page” as seen below to add a page number. Choose the page number that runs to the far right.
4. On the title page your header must be formatted like this: “Running head: TITLE OF YOUR PAPER.”
5. Hit the Tab key on your keyboard once or twice to push your title to the left hand side of your paper. Now close out of the header by clicking “Close Header and Footer”.
The cover page of an APA formatted document includes the following information:
Begin by hitting the enter key four to six times or until you’re about a third of the way down the page. Your cover page must be centered, so select the center option.
First type in your paper’s title and hit enter. Now type in your own name and hit enter. Finally, type in: Carteret Community College. Your cover page should look very similar to this one:
Second Page Header: After finishing the cover page, you can hit the enter key until you drop to the second page, or else select the Insert tab and hit Page Break. Either way, we are now at the top of page two. Because we selected Different First Page on the Header menu, we will need to add our header again. So once more:
NOTE: this time we are not adding “Running head:” to the title.