How can I make the apa6-document class NOT print a short title?

Question

I am writing my master's thesis on TeXmaker. As for following the APA citation rules, I started using the apa6 document class. But even in the doc-mode, it still puts a short title (in capital letters) on top of every page, but I don't think that is appropriate in a master's thesis.
So my question is: how can I either erase that short title so it doesn't appear at all, or at least change it into normal letters? I tried \renewcommand{\shorttitle}[1]{} which I found in this forum, it seems to work for suppressing the abstract, but it didn't work for me.

Welcome to TeX.SX! Please help us help you and add a minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates your problem. Reproducing the problem and finding out what the issue is will be much easier when we see compilable code, starting with \documentclass{...} and ending with \end{document}. — egreg, Feb 25 '16 at 21:07
I would not use the apa6 class at all. See What is the difference between natbib, apacite package and apa6 document class? — Alan Munn, Feb 26 '16 at 02:04
thank you @AlanMunn, that page helped me a lot! I think you are right, I will now use a more basic document class. — C.Zet, Feb 26 '16 at 11:58

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 25 '16 at 21:18

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I found a nice workaround: just leaving the \shorttitle{} -command empty helped. My MWE:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,doc]{apa6}
\usepackage[english, ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\begin{document}

\title{title}
\author{C.Zet}
\affiliation{master's thesis}
\date{\today}
\shorttitle{ }
\maketitle
\end{document}

answered Feb 25 '16 at 21:18

C.Zet

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it doesn't work. the doc still says "Running head:" – Vipin Verma Sep 10 '18 at 19:23

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 16 '22 at 21:20

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Try adding \thispagestyle{empty} in the title section, in addition to \shorttitle{ }. This removes "Running head:" for me.

answered Dec 16 '22 at 21:20

cuivre

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How can I make the apa6-document class NOT print a short title?

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