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I am creating a latex document with the following format:

\documentclass[12pt, letterpaper]{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{mathptmx} \usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{hyperref} \usepackage{indentfirst} \usepackage{setspace,caption} \captionsetup{font=doublespacing}% Double-spaced float captions \doublespacing% Double-spaced document text \usepackage{fancyhdr} \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhf{} \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} \fancyhead[R]{\thepage} \lhead{MY RUNNING HEAD} \title{my report title} \author{my name} \date{my date} \begin{document} \maketitle \end{document}

In fact, I am trying to create a document in APA style. Everything is fine now, but the problem is that I need the running head be on my title page as well. In addition, current title page number is shown below the page while based on the APA style I should put it on top of the page on the right corner in the header.

I was wondering how I can start applying the fancyhdr from the title page. OR is there any way to customize the first page with the current settings that I have?

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As far as I have understood you would like a running head on your title page. You can do it by adding a fancypagestyle as in example below:

\documentclass[12pt, letterpaper]{article} \usepackage{fancyhdr} % Redefine the plain page style \fancypagestyle{plain}{% \fancyhf{}% \fancyfoot[R]{\thepage}% \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}% Line at the header invisible \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}% Footer line not visible with 0pt \lhead{MY RUNNING HEAD} } \title{my report title} \author{my name} \date{my date} \begin{document} \maketitle \clearpage \subsection{Some section} And here some text \end{document}

If you also want a running head on the following pages you could just create another fancypagestyle, and call it with \pagestyle{myotherstyle} after \newpage, for example 

% Define another page style \fancypagestyle{myotherstyle}{% \fancyhf{}% \fancyfoot[R]{\thepage}% \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}% Line at the header invisible \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}% Footer line not visible with 0pt \lhead{MY OTHER RUNNING HEAD} }
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  • Are you able to compile my document with original settings with your part added? It seems that it is not compilable. Commented Apr 12, 2017 at 1:32
  • By a slightly modified version I figured what I should do! Thx! Commented Apr 12, 2017 at 3:22
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    You should probably mention that the titlepage does not use plain style in case of having the titlepage document class option, it's empty style then. And \clearpage should be applied before a new pagestyle is used Commented Apr 12, 2017 at 3:24

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