Assignment Cover Page & Title Page Generator

About the Assignment Cover Page & Title Page Generator

Fill in a short form and get the first page of your assignment laid out the way your style guide asks: the APA 7 student or professional title page, the MLA 9 heading at the top of page 1 (or a title page for a group project), the Chicago (Turabian) class-paper title page, or a front page for a school or college with the institution’s logo, the subject, who submitted it and to whom. The preview is laid out line for line like the PDF and updates as you type.

With a Pro pass you download it as a Word file (.docx) that is set up for the rest of the paper — 1-inch margins, your font and size, double spacing, and the page number in a real header (with APA’s running head, MLA’s surname, or no number on a Turabian title page) — or as a PDF to put in front of a finished paper or print. Everything happens in your browser: the logo and your details are never uploaded.

Common uses

• An APA 7 title page for a psychology, nursing, education or business assignment.
• The MLA heading and running head for an English essay, ready to keep writing in Word or Google Docs.
• A Turabian title page for a history or humanities paper, with page 2 numbered in the .docx.
• A front page with the school or college logo for an assignment, project report, lab record or practical file.

What each format puts on the page

• APA 7 student: the title three or four lines below the top margin, in bold and centred, with any subtitle on its own line; one blank line; then the author names (two joined by “and”, three or more with commas and “and”), the department and university, the course number and name, the instructor and the due date — all centred and double-spaced. Page number 1 sits at the top right; a student paper needs no running head unless the instructor asks for one. See APA Style on the title page and its Student Paper Setup Guide (PDF).
• APA 7 professional: the title and byline in the same places, the affiliations each on their own line (with superscript numbers when authors have different ones), the author note in the bottom half under a bold, centred “Author Note” label, and in the header a running head in capitals at the left — at most 50 characters, without the words “Running head” — across from the page number. See APA Style on the page header.
• MLA 9: no title page. Your name, the instructor’s name, the course and the date go on separate double-spaced lines at the top left of page 1, the title is centred on the next line with no bold, italics, quotation marks or capitals throughout, and your surname and the page number sit at the top right, half an inch from the top. A group project gets a title page that lists every author instead. See the MLA Handbook on the title and heading and the running head.
• Chicago / Turabian: the title begins about a third of the way down, in bold and headline-style capitals, with a colon after the main title and the subtitle on the next line; your name, the course and the date go lower down; the page shows no number but counts as page 1. See the University of Chicago Press’s Turabian student tip sheets.
• School / college: a plain front page of this tool’s own design — logo, institution, kind of work and title, subject, “Submitted by” with the student’s number and class, “Submitted to” with the teacher’s designation, the session and the date — with an optional border and lines for a signature and marks. Every label can be reworded.

What the Word file and the PDF contain

• Margins and spacing: 1 inch on every side; APA, MLA and Turabian pages are double-spaced with no extra space between paragraphs, and their blank lines are real empty lines you can delete or add to.
• Fonts: the .docx asks for the font you chose (Times New Roman, Calibri, Arial, Georgia or Aptos) at your size; for APA the size follows the font, as in APA’s setup guide (12 point for Times New Roman and Aptos, 11 for Calibri, Arial and Georgia). The PDF uses Times or Helvetica, the standard PDF fonts every reader has: Times stands in for the serif fonts and Helvetica, which has Arial’s proportions, for the sans-serif ones. Names in Polish, Greek, Cyrillic, Vietnamese or Hindi are set in Noto Sans in the PDF.
• Page numbers: a real header half an inch from the top with a page-number field, so the numbers stay right as the paper grows. For APA and Turabian the .docx can go on to the first page of the paper (APA repeats the title in bold at the top of it); after an MLA group title page the numbering starts again at 1.
• The PDF is the title page on its own, ready to put in front of a finished paper with PDF Merge.

Before you hand it in

• Your instructor’s or institution’s instructions come first: all three style guides say so, and many schools have a front-page format of their own.
• Check the capitals of names, places and abbreviations after Fix capitalization, and type the course and the instructor’s name exactly as your course materials write them.
• APA students use the student title page unless they are told to use the professional one.
• For the reference list, use the APA Citation Generator and the Reference List Checker.

Limitations

• The PDF uses Times or Helvetica in place of Calibri, Georgia or Aptos; the .docx uses the font you chose, which Word, Google Docs or LibreOffice show when it is installed.
• In the PDF, letters of scripts other than Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Vietnamese and Devanagari (for example Arabic, Bengali, Tamil or Chinese) print as “?”; the .docx keeps them, and the page warns you first.
• Word lays text out with the real font, so a long title may break at a slightly different word than in the preview.
• The school front page is a generic design. It does not reproduce any board’s, university’s or college’s official format; if yours prescribes one, follow it.
• Your details are kept only if you tick “Remember these details on this device” (the logo is never kept).

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