Setting Up the Page
Access Google's home page by going to www.google.com.
Click on the blue "Sign in" icon in the top right of the screen, enter your information, and sign into your account. You will then be redirected back to the home page.
Click on the grid-shaped icon in the top right of the screen, to the left of the icon with the bell on it, in order to access your apps. A menu will pop up and from here you will see the triangle-shaped icon labeled "Drive". Click on it and you will be redirected to the "My Drive" main screen.
Click the red button on the left of the screen labeled "New", and select the "Google Docs" option from the drop down menu that appears. This creates a new untitled document that you can now edit just as you would on other word processors such as Microsoft Word.
Adding Title Page Details
Create the title page itself. First, create a running header by clicking on the "Insert" option on the top left of the toolbar and select "Header" from the drop down menu. Click the box next to the "Different first page header/footer" pop up to place a check mark into it. Make sure the blinking cursor is on the left hand side of the page and type "Running head:" followed by the title of your paper in all capital letters so it looks like this: "Running head: TITLE OF YOUR PAPER".
Insert a page number. Click the "Insert" tab on the top left again and hover your cursor over the "Page number" option. Select the first choice in the pop up images that appear, with the numbers proceeding in sequence on the top right of the preview pictures of the pages. Clicking that will cause a number 1 to appear right after your title in the header. This is where it gets a little tricky. Click before the number one to put your blinking cursor before the number one and after the last word of your title. Then press the "tab" key and/or spacebar on your keyboard to bring the number one all the way to the right hand side of the page. This step is so tedious because although Microsoft Word has a way to input two separate pieces of information in the header and justify one to the far left and one to the far right, Google Docs does not have a way to do this, thus we manually justify the page number to the right. After you have your running head and title to the left of the header and your page number on the right, exit the header by clicking anywhere else on the page outside of the header field.
Center the cursor and increase the line spacing to double. Do this by first clicking on the icon in the toolbar with the centered horizontal lines and the pop up message "Center (Ctrl+Shift+E)" when you hover over it with the mouse. Further to the right is the line spacing icon, composed of a vertical arrow pointing up and down and more horizontal lines. Hovering over this icon will prompt a pop up message that says "Line spacing". Click this icon, and from the drop down menu that appears, select "Double".
Press "Enter" about five times or until your cursor is about a quarter to a third of the way down the page. This does not need to be precise.
Type your title, this time using both capital and lower case letters. "Title of Your Paper". Press enter.
Type the author's name (presumably you!). Include first and last name (middle initial is optional). Do NOT include titles (Dr., Mrs., Mr., etc..) or degrees (PhD, Master's, etc..). Press enter.
Type the institutional affiliation, which indicates where the author conducted his or her research (ex: Harvard University, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, etc..). Press enter.
Congratulations! You have made your APA title page via Google Drive! Good luck with the rest of your paper!
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