She clicked into the header. Typed: HEURISTICS AND CLINICAL BIAS — then tabbed over to the right and inserted the page number “1.” She checked the font: Times New Roman, 12 point. Yes.
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. portada de un trabajo normas apa
Instructor: one double-spaced line below the course. Dr. Samuel Reyes. She clicked into the header
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. Panic set in
She hit “Save As,” named it “Vasquez_APA_Cover_Final,” and uploaded it to the portal. At 11:59 p.m., the green checkmark appeared. Submission received.
Then she saw it: the title was supposed to be in title case—major words capitalized. She’d written “Heuristics and Anchoring: How First Impressions Skew Clinical Diagnoses.” That was correct. But the professor also required a “author note” for graduate papers. Elena wasn’t in grad school, but the rubric said: “For this assignment, include an author note with ORCID ID and disclosure of conflicts.” She’d almost missed that.