If using APA, it is recommended to follow these guidelines unless otherwise instructed by your professor.

Always follow your professor's guidelines.

The running head is a short version of you title's paper.

Example

If your title looks like this:

"On the Origins of the Modern Superhero: Cultural Adaptation and the Evolution of Norse Folktales and Mythology"

Your running head might look like this on the first page:

Running head: FOLKTALE EVOLUTION AND THE MODERN SUPERHERO

And this on every page thereafter:

FOLKTALE EVOLUTION AND THE MODERN SUPERHERO

NOTE: Make sure you check the box for a different first page in the header options first (see image below)

When citing a source, use the author's last name and year of publication. If using a direct quote, you must use the page number if available. Do not repeat the authors name in the parenthetical citation if already stated in the sentence.

• Scheub (2012) concludes that oral traditions provide the social resonance for "great poets to bring elements of tradition to bear on these significant and dangerous transitional periods" (p. 196).
• Scheub (2012) concludes that orators would use oral traditions as allegory during watershed periods of history.
• Oral traditions used as allegory provided significant social resonance during watershed periods of history (Scheub, 2012).

Multiple Authors:

• The Brothers Grimm did not treat each version of a tale as similarly valid, instead qualitatively judging versions in terms of artistic integrity, detail and which "corresponded better to the moral codes" of the time (Calvin & McAra, 2011, p. 20).

No Author and Webpages:

If no author is given, use the title of the work. On a webpage where no page numbers are give, use the title of the work.

• Between antiquity and post-antiquity, mythology was treated with fundamentally different attitudes where in the former there was a strong connection between daily and religious life, and the latter as a source of themes in art and literature ("About Greek and Roman Mythology," 2007).

Organization as an Author:

If the author is an organization or a government agency, use its title.

• According to the American Folklore Society (2012), ...

For more details and examples, see the Purdue Online Writing Lab.

Remember, when using a machine-generated citation, you are still responsible for the accuracy of information and format! Always double check these citations before you finish your paper.

• Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
• Quick Answers from APA Style
• Citation Machine