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List of Tables and Figures xi Foreword xiii Preface xv Editorial Staff xvii Introduction 3

Organization of the Sixth Edition 4 Specific Changes in the Sixth Edition 4 How to Use the Publication Manual 6

Contents

1. Writing for the Behavioral and Social Sciences 9 Types of Articles 9

1.01 Empirical Studies 10 1.02 Literature Reviews 10 1.03 Theoretical Articles 10 1.04 Methodological Articles 10 1.05 Case Studies 11 1.06 Other Types of Articles 11

Ethical and Legal Standards in Publishing 11 Ensuring the Accuracy of Scientific Knowledge 12

1.07 Ethical Reporting of Research Results 12 1.08 Data Retention and Sharing 12 1.09 Duplicate and Piecemeal Publication of Data 13 1.10 Plagiarism and Self-Plagiarism 15

Protecting the Rights and Welfare of Research Participants 16 1.11 Rights and Confidentiality of Research Participants 16 1.12 Conflict of Interest 17

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Protecting Intel lectual Property Rights 18 1.13 Publication Credit 18 1.14 Reviewers 19 1.15 Author's Copyright on an Unpublished Manuscript 19 1.16 Planning for Ethical Compliance 20

2. Manuscript Structure and Content 2 1 Journal Article Reporting Standards 21 Manuscript Elements 23

2.01 Tide 23 2.02 Author's Name (Byline) and Institutional Affiliation 23 2.03 Author Note 24 2.04 Abstract 25 2.05 Introduction 27 2.06 Method 29 2.07 Results 32 2.08 Discussion 35 2.09 Multiple Experiments 36 2.10 Meta-Analyses 36 2.11 References 37 2.12 Footnotes 37 2.13 Appendices and Supplemental Materials 38

Sample Papers 40

3. Writing Clearly and Concisely 6 1 Organization 6 1

3.01 Length 6 1 3.02 Organizing a Manuscript With Headings 62 3.03 Levels of Heading 62 3.04 Seriation 63

Writing Style 65 3.05 Continuity in Presentation of Ideas 65 3.06 Smoothness of Expression 65 3.07 Tone 66 3.08 Economy of Expression 67 3.09 Precision and Clarity 68 3.10 Linguistic Devices 70 3.11 Strategies to Improve Writing Style 70

Reducing Bias in language 70 General Guidelines for Reducing Bias 71

Guideline 1 : Describe at the Appropriate Level of Specificity 71 Guideline 2: Be Sensitive to Labels 72 Guideline 3: Acknowledge Participation 73

Reducing Bias by Topic 73 3.12 Gender 73 3.13 Sexual Orientation 74 3.14 Racial and Ethnic Identity 75

3.15 Disabilities 76 3.16 Age 76 3.17 Historical and Interpretive Inaccuracies 76

Grammar and Usage 77 3.18 Verbs 77 3.19 Agreement of Subject and Verb 78 3.20 Pronouns 79

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3.21 Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers and Use of Adverbs 81 3.22 Relative Pronouns and Subordinate Conjunctions 83 3.23 Parallel Construction 84

4. The Mechanics of Style 87 Punctuation 87

4.01 Spacing After Punctuation Marks 87 4.02 Period 88 4.03 Comma 88 4.04 Semicolon 89 4.05 Colon 90 4.06 Dash 90 4.07 Quotation Marks 91 4.08 Double or Single Quotation Marks 92 4.09 Parentheses 93 4.10 Brackets 94 4.11 Slash 95

Spelling 96 4.12 Preferred Spelling 96 4.13 Hyphenation 97

Capitalization 101 4.14 Words Beginning a Sentence 101 4.15 Major Words in Titles and Headings 101 4.16 Proper Nouns and Trade Names 102 4.17 Nouns Followed by Numerals or Letters 103 4.18 Titles of Tests 103 4.19 Names of Conditions or Groups in an Experiment 104 4.20 Names of Factors, Variables, and Effects 104

Ita lics 104 4.21 Use of Italics 104

Abbreviations 106 4.22 Use of Abbreviations 106 4.23 Explanation of Abbreviations 107 4.24 Abbreviations Accepted as Words 107 4.25 Abbreviations Used Often in APA Journals 108 4.26 Latin Abbreviations 108 4.27 Scientific Abbreviations 108 4.28 Other Abbreviations 110 4.29 Plurals of Abbreviations 110 4.30 Abbreviations Beginning a Sentence 111

CONTENTS

Numbers 1 1 1 4.31 Numbers Expressed in Numerals 1 1 1 4.32 Numbers Expressed in Words 1 12 4.33 Combining Numerals and Words to Express Numbers 1 12 4.34 Ordinal Numbers 1 13 4.35 Decimal Fractions 1 13 4.36 Roman Numerals 1 14 4.37 Commas in Numbers 1 14 4.38 Plurals of Numbers 1 14

Metrication 1 14 4.39 Policy on Metrication 1 14 4.40 Style for Metric Units 1 15

Statistical and Mathematical Copy 1 16 4.41 Selecting Effective Presentation 1 16 4.42 References for Statistics 1 16 4.43 Formulas 1 16 4.44 Statistics in Text 1 16 4.45 Statistical Symbols 1 17 4.46 Spacing, Alignment, and Punctuation 1 18

Equations 123 4.47 Equations in Text 123 4.48 Displayed Equations 123 4.49 Preparing Statistical and Mathematical Copy 124

5. Displaying Results 125 General Guidance on Tables and Figures 125

5.01 Purposes of Data Displays 125 5.02 Design and Preparation of a Data Display 126 5.03 Graphical Versus Textual Presentation 126 5.04 Formatting Tables and Figures 127 5.05 Table and Figure Numbers 127 5.06 Permission to Reproduce Data Displays 128

Tables 128 5.07 Conciseness in Tables 128 5.08 Table Layout 128 5.09 Standard Forms 129 5.10 Relation of Tables and Text 130 5.11 Relation Between Tables 130 5.12 Table Titles 133 5.13 Table Headings 133 5.14 Table Body 137 5.15 Confidence Intervals in Tables 138 5.16 Table Notes 138 5.17 Ruling of Tables 14 1 5.18 Presenting Data in Specific Types of Tables 14 1 5.19 Table Checklist 150

Figures 150 5.20 Principles of Figure Use and Construction 150

5.21 Types of Figures 15 1 5.22 Standards for Figures 152 5.23 Figure Legends and Captions 158 5.24 Planning Figures 16 1 5.25 Preparation of Figures 16 1

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Presenting Electrophysiological, Radiological, and Other Biological Data 16 1 5.26 Electrophysiological Data 162 5.27 Radiological (Imaging) Data 162 5.28 Genetic Data 165 5.29 Photographs 165 5.30 Figure Checklist 167

6. Crediting Sources 169 When to Cite 169

6.01 Plagiarism 170 6.02 Self-Plagiarism 170

Quoting and Paraphrasing 170 6.03 Direct Quotation of Sources 170 6.04 Paraphrasing Material 17 1 6.05 Direct Quotations of Online Material Without Pagination 17 1 6.06 Accuracy of Quotations 172 6.07 Changes From the Source Requiring No Explanation 172 6.08 Changes From the Source Requiring Explanation 172 6.09 Citations Within Quotations 173 6.10 Permission to Quote, Reprint, or Adapt 173

Citing References in Text 174 6.11 One Work by One Author 174 6.12 One Work by Multiple Authors 175 6.13 Groups as Authors 176 6.14 Authors With the Same Surname 176 6.15 Works With No Identified Author or With an

Anonymous Author 176 6.16 Two or More Works Within the Same Parentheses 177 6.17 Secondary Sources 178 6.18 Classical Works 178 6.19 Citing Specific Parts of a Source 179 6.20 Personal Communications 179 6.21 Citations in Parenthetical Material 179

Reference list 180 6.22 Construction of an Accurate and Complete Reference List 180 6.23 Consistency 18 1 6.24 Using the Archival Copy or Version of Record 18 1 6.25 Order of References in the Reference List 18 1 6.26 References Included in a Meta-Analysis 183

Reference Components 183 6.27 Author and Editor Information 184 6.28 Publication Date 185

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6.29 Title 185 6.30 Publication Information 186 6.31 Electronic Sources and Locator Information 187 6.32 Providing Publication Data for Electronic Sources 189

7. Reference Examples 193 Types and Variations 193 Examples by Type 198

7.01 Periodicals 198 7.02 Books, Reference Books, and Book Chapters 202 7.03 Technical and Research Reports 205 7.04 Meetings and Symposia 206 7.05 Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses 207 7.06 Reviews and Peer Commentary 208 7.07 Audiovisual Media 209 7.08 Data Sets, Software, Measurement Instruments, and Apparatus 210 7.09 Unpublished and Informally Published Works 211 7.10 Archival Documents and Collections 212 7.11 Internet Message Boards, Electronic Mailing Lists, and Other Online

Communities 214 Appendix 7.1: References to legal Materials 216

A7.01 General Forms 216 A7.02 Text Citations of Legal Materials 217 A7.03 Court Decisions (Bluebook Rule 10) 217 A7.04 Statutes (Bluebook Rule 12) 219 A7.05 Legislative Materials (Bluebook Rule 1 3 ) 221 A7.06 Administrative and Executive Materials (Bluebook Rule 14) 223 A7.07 Patents 224

8. The Publication Process 225 Editorial Process 225

8.01 Peer Review 225 8.02 Manuscript Acceptance or Rejection 226

Author Responsibilities 228 8.03 Preparing the Manuscript for Submission 228 8.04 Complying With Ethical, Legal, and Policy Requirements 231 8.05 Publisher Policy Requirements 236 8.06 Working With the Publisher When the Manuscript

Has Been Accepted 239 8.07 Checklist for Manuscript Submission 240

Appendix: Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS), Meta-Analysis Reporting Standards (MARS), and Flow of Participants Through Each Stage of an Experiment or Quasi-Experiment 245

References 255 Index 259

Tables Table 2.1 Table 3.1 Table 4.1 Table 4.2 Table 4.3 Table 4.4 Table 4.5 Table 5.1 Table 5.2 Table 5.3

Table 5.4

Table 5.5 Table 5.6

Table 5.1 Table 5.8 Table 5.9

Table 5.10

list of Tables and Figures

Author Bylines 24 Format for Five Levels of Heading in APA Journals 62 Guide to Hyphenating Terms 98 Prefixes and Suffixes That Do Not Require Hyphens 99 Prefixed Words That Require Hyphens 100 Common Abbreviations for Units of Measurement 109 Statistical Abbreviations and Symbols 1 19 Basic Components of a Table 129 Sample of Effective Table Layout 130 Sample Factor Loadings Table (With Rotation Method Specified) 13 1 Sample Table With Detailed Specifications of Complex Experimental Designs 134 Sample Table Display of a Sample's Characteristics 135 Sample Table of Correlations in Which the Values for Two Samples Are Presented 136 Sample Table of Results of Fitting Mathematical Models 137 Sample Table Including Confidence Intervals With Brackets 139 Sample Table Including Confidence Intervals With Upper and Lower Limits 140 Sample Table Display of Psychometric Properties of Key Outcome Variables 142

Table 5.1 1 Sample Table of One-Degree-of-Freedom Statistical Contrasts 143 Table 5.1 2 Sample Regression Table 144

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Table 5.13 Sample Hierarchical Multiple Regression Table 145 Table 5.1 4 Sample Model Comparison Table 146 Table 5.1 5 Sample Multilevel Model Table 147 Table 5.16 Sample Word Table 149 Table 6.1 Basic Citation Styles 177

Figures figure 2.1 Sample One-Experiment Paper 4 1 Figure 2.2 Sample Two-Experiment Paper 54 figure 2.3 Sample Meta-Analysis 57 figure 5.1 Complex Theoretical Formulations 152 figure 5.2 Theory Through a Set of Path Models 153 figure 5.3 Sampling and Flow of Subjects Through a Randomized Clinical Trial

or Other Experiment 154 figure 5.4 Flow of Participants in a Survey Study 155 figure 5.5 Results of One-Way Design Using Error Bars to Represent Precision

of the Resulting Estimates 156 Figure 5.6 Empirical Results From a Complex Multivariate Model 157 figure 5.7 Kinds of Responses Being Gathered and Scoring Methods 158 figure 5.8 Details of an Experimental Laboratory Set-Up 159 figure 5.9 Details of Experimental Procedure 160 figure 5.10 Event-Related Brain Potential Data 163 Figure 5.1 1 Neuroimaging Data With Details of Processing Information 164 figure 5.1 2 Display of Genetic Material-Physical Map 166 figure 6.1 Example of Appropriate Citation Level 170 Figure 6.2 Location of Digital Object Identifier (DOl) in Journal Article 189 Figure 6.3 Location of Digital Object Identifier for Article on Database Landing

Page 190 figure 6.4 Example of Reference in Electronic Document With Digital Object

Identifier Hidden Behind a Button 19 1 Figure 6.5 Digital Object Identifier Resolver 19 1 figure 8.1 Sample Cover Letter 232 figure 8.2 APA Compliance With Ethical Principles Form 233 figure 8.3 APA Disclosure of Interests Form 235 figure 8.4 APA Copyright Permission Request Form 237

Foreword

rom its inception as a brief journal article in 1 929, the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association has been designed to advance scholar­ ship by setting sound and rigorous standards for scientific communication. The

creators of the 1 929 manuscript included psychologists, anthropologists, and business managers who convened under the sponsorship of the National Research Council. They sought to establish a simple set of procedures, or style rules, that would codify the many components of scientific writing to increase the ease of reading comprehen­ sion. This goal was subsequently embraced not only by psychologists but also by schol­ ars in other social and behavioral sciences who wished to enhance the dissemination of knowledge in their respective fields.

Uniform style helps us to cull articles quickly for key points and findings. Rules of style in scientific writing encourage full disclosure of essential information and allow us to dispense with minor distractions. Style helps us express the key elements of quan­ titative results, choose the graphic form that will best suit our analyses, report critical details of our research protocol, and describe individuals with accuracy and respect. It removes the distraction of puzzling over the correct punctuation for a reference or the proper form for numbers in text. Those elements are codified in the rules we follow for clear communication, allowing us to focus our intellectual energy on the substance of our research.

Today, APA Style sets a standard that is realized in APA journals, books, and electron­ ic databases. In my tenure as APA publisher, the APA Journals program has grown from one that publishes 1 7,700 pages a year to one that publishes 37,000 pages a year. The APA Books program has grown from 12 books to over 1,214 books as well as 1 60 psychother­ apy training videos. APA electronic products have grown from one database to five data­ bases that offer users immediate connection to abstracts, books, journals, reviews, and quality gray literature. This profusion of scholarship has been supported and defined by the guidance provided in the Publication Manual. Together with the APA Dictionary of

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Psychology and Encyclopedia of Psychology, it establishes a sound foundation for the advancement of the field.

The Publication Manual is consulted not only by psychologists but also by stu­ dents and researchers in education, social work, nursing, business, and many other behavioral and social sciences. Its standards are available in English as well as Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Chinese, and many other languages. A central focus of delibera­ tion for this edition has been the way in which web-based technological innovations have altered the way we conceptualize, conduct, and consume scientific research. The sixth edition of the Publication Manual is devoted in large part to interpreting these advances and incorporating them into the style lexicon. It is my hope that, in concert with our other reference products, it will serve as a solid base for all of your scientific communications.

Gary R. VandenBos, PhD Publisher, American Psychological Association

Preface

o better understand the complex changes in scientific publishing and address them in this edition, many experts and professional groups were consulted. We began the revision process in 2006 by looking closely at the fifth edition, ana­

lyzing more than five years of accumulated user feedback; evaluating published criti­ cism; and commissioning reviews from senior editors in psychology, education, nurs­ ing, history, and business. After deliberation of and debate about these comments, the APA Publications and Communications Board set broad parameters for the revision and appointed a panel of experienced editors and scientists from diverse specialty areas to collaborate with dedicated staff on the revision.

The six-member Publication Manual Revision Task Force met for the first time in February 2007. They determined that revisions were needed in seven key areas: ethics, journal article reporting standards, reducing bias in language, graphics, writing style, references, and statistics. Working groups of experts were established to support the work of the task force in each area.

As the revision progressed, APA staff continued to solicit recommendations for revision from the APA Council of Editors, from Publication Manual users at the www.apastyle.org website, from APA members at professional meetings, and from APA boards and committees. Those recommendations were passed along to working group and task force members for consideration.

Thus, this edition of the Publication Manual is the result of creative collaboration with many groups and individuals. We must first thank the members of the Publication Manual Revision Task Force. They devoted many hours to analyzing reviews, consid­ ering the scholarly publishing climate, identifying topics in need of greater coverage, meeting with working group members to generate and revise text, critiquing and dis­ cussing new drafts, and poring over the final draft with a persistent commitment to getting it right. We are fortunate to have benefited so thoroughly from their enthusias­ tic and generous support of this project.

P R E F A C E

We are also grateful for the contributions that came from the working groups of experts who helped shape this edition. They dialed in faithfully to join Webex confer­ ence calls, collaborating to ensure accurate and comprehensive coverage for their respective areas. We benefited from the welcome blend of tact, humor, and insight that they brought to this project.

Early in the revision process, we solicited critiques from selected core users, that is, from senior editors and writers in the areas of psychology, nursing, education, and business. The overall recommendations gained from those individuals greatly influ­ enced the approach taken in planning this edition of the Publication Manual. For shar­ ing their insights and suggestions, we thank Barney Beins, Geoff Cumming, Janet Shibley Hyde, Judy Nemes, Kathryn Riley, Henry Roediger III, Peter W. Schroth, Martha Storandt, and Sandra P. Thomas. On a related note, we are indebted to Linda Beebe and the PsycINFO staff for their invaluable guidance on how evolving technolo­ gies continue to affect the reading, storage, and retrieval of scholarly work.

To guide us in our commitment to provide sound and timely instruction on scien­ tific reporting, we solicited comments from several APA boards and committees. We are grateful for recommendations received from the APA Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs; the APA Board of Scientific Affairs; the APA History Oversight Committee; the APA Committee on Disability Issues in Psychology; the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students; the APA Task Force on Gender Identity, Gender Variance, and Intersex Conditions; and the APA Committee on Socioeconomic Status.

Several writing instructors and coaches contacted us with suggestions for making APA Style more accessible for students. For taking the time to share their recommen­ dations, we are most grateful to Dee Seligman, Wendy Packman, Scott Hines, Geeta Patangay, Mylea Charvat, and Jeff Zuckerman.

Last, we thank the APA Office of Publications and Databases staff for their many contributions to this edition, including Paige Jackson, Susan Herman, Annie Hill, Harriet Kaplan, Edward Porter, Shenyun Wu, Amy Pearson, Ron Teeter, Hal Warren, Beverly Jamison, Susan Harris, and Julia Frank-McNeil. Nora Kisch, Julianne Rovesti, Peter Gaviorno, and the entire sales and marketing team have worked tirelessly to inform the broad social science community about the new edition. We are particular­ ly grateful to Jennifer Macomber for her skilled and meticulous care in shepherding the manuscript through production. Finally, we thank Anne Woodworth Gasque, who man­ aged the process with ingenuity and grace, for her superb stewardship of this project.

Mary Lynn Skutley Editorial Director, APA Books

Gary R. VandenBos, PhD Publisher, American Psychological Association

Publication Manual of the American Psychological

Association, Sixth Edition Editorial Staff

Publication Manual Revision Task Force Mark Appelbaum, Chair Lillian Comas-Diaz Harris Cooper Leah Light Peter Ornstein Lois Tetrick

Editor in Chief

Gary R. VandenBos

Project Director

Mary Lynn Skutley

Senior Editors

Anne Woodworth Gasque Paige Jackson

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Publication Manual Revision Working Groups Bias-Free Language Lillian Comas-Diaz, Co-Chair Peter Ornstein, Co-Chair Norman Abeles Kevin Cokley Sari H. Dworkin Alba A. Ortiz Denise Sekaquaptewa Nathan Grant Smith Glen W. White

Ethics Leah L. Light, Co-Chair Lois Tetrick, Co-Chair Celia B. Fisher Lenore W. Harmon Mieke Verfaellie

Graphics Mark Appelbaum, Co-Chair Lois Tetrick, Co-Chair John Jonides Penny Pexman David Thissen Howard Wainer

Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS) Mark Appelbaum, Co-Chair Harris Cooper, Co-Chair Scott E. Maxwell Valerie F. Reyna Kenneth J. Sher Arthur Stone

References Mark Appelbaum, Co-Chair Peter Ornstein, Co-Chair Susan Herman Annie Hill

Statistics Mark Appelbaum, Co-Chair Harris Cooper, Co-Chair Geoff Cumming Michael Edwards Joel Levin Abigail Panter

Writing Style Leah L. Light, Co-Chair Peter Ornstein, Co-Chair David F. Bjorklund Catherine Haden Annie Hill

Introduction

The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association was first published in 1 929 as a seven-page "standard of procedure, to which exceptions would doubtless be necessary, but to which reference might be made in cases of doubt" (Bentley et aI., 1 929, p. 57). Eighty years later, we launch the sixth edition of the Publication Manual in the same spirit. Over the years, the Publication Manual has grown by necessity from a simple set of style rules to an authoritative source on all aspects of scholarly writing, from the ethics of duplicate publication to the word choice that best reduces bias in language.

The rules of APA Style are drawn from an extensive body of psychological litera­ ture, from editors and authors experienced in scholarly writing, and from recognized authorities on publication practices. This edition of the Publication Manual has been extensively revised to reflect new standards in publishing and new practices in infor­ mation dissemination. Since the last edition of the manual was published, we have gone from a population that reads articles to one that "consumes content." New tech­ nologies have made increasingly sophisticated analyses possible, just as they have accelerated the dissemination of those analyses in multiple forms, from blogs to per­ sonal web postings to articles published in online databases.

To provide readers with guidance on how these and other developments have affected scholarly publishing, we have reordered and condensed the manual signifi­ cantly. Our first goal was to simplify the reader's job by compiling all information on a topic in a single place. We have ordered information in accordance with the publica­ tion process, beginning with the idea stage and ending with the publication stage. We have retained and strengthened the basic rules of APA writing style and the guidelines on avoiding bias in language that were first published by APA more than 30 years ago. Most important, we have significantly expanded guidance on ethics, statistics, journal article reporting standards, electronic reference formats, and the construction of tables and figures.

O R G A N I Z A T I O N O F T H E S I X T H E D I T I O N

Key to this revision is an updated and expanded web presence, which exponential­ ly increases the information we are able to provide. At www.apastyle.org, readers will find a full range of resources for learning AP A Style as well as additional guidance on writing and publishing, which will evolve with changing standards and practices.

Organization of the Sixth Edition In Chapter 1 , we acquaint readers with the types of articles common in scholarly pub­ lications. We also describe the role of ethics in publishing and offer guidance in follow­ ing best practices for compliance.

In Chapter 2, we define all parts of a scholarly manuscript, from title to appendix, emphasizing both function and form. We also summarize current reporting standards for journal articles. The chapter ends with sample papers that illustrate the rules of APA Style.

In Chapter 3, we offer basic guidance on planning and writing the article. We advise readers on how to organize their thoughts, choose effective words, and describe individuals with accuracy and sensitivity.

In Chapter 4, we instruct readers on the nuts and bolts of style: punctuation, spelling, capitalization, abbreviations, numbers, and statistics in text. Consistency in the use of these basic aspects of style is key to clear scientific communication.

In Chapter 5, we describe the effective use of graphic elements in text and provide readers with illustrations of graphic elements that are useful for the presentation of data in tables and figures.

In Chapter 6, we provide guidance on citing sources. We discuss ground rules for acknowledging contributions of others and for formatting quotations. We instruct readers on when and how to cite references in text and on how to construct a refer­ ence list that contains everything readers need to locate each source.

In Chapter 7, we provide a comprehensive selection of reference examples in APA Style. The examples cover a range of categories, from periodicals to podcasts, with an emphasis on references to electronic formats.

In Chapter 8, we provide an overview of the journal publishing process. We emphasize the author's responsibilities in manuscript preparation and at each subse­ quent stage of publication.

Specific Changes in the Sixth Edition General Approach

We considered two broad issues in planning this revision. First, given the wide use of the Publication Manual by readers outside the field of psychology, to what extent should this edition focus specifically on the APA journals program? Detailed infor­ mation on APA journals is available on the web (see http://www.apa.orgljournals/); each journal has its own web page, which includes specific instructions to authors. We decided to remove from the Publication Manual much of the APA-specific information that is readily accessible on the web, where guidelines are kept current. In this edition of the Publication Manual, we emphasize general principles that researchers need to know as well as principles of clear textual and visual communication.

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Second, to what extent should the Publication Manual be prescriptive rather than descriptive of current practices in the field? A section in the foreword to the fourth edi­ tion is relevant:

The Publication Manual presents expl icit style requ i rements but acknowledges that a lternatives a re sometimes necessary; authors should ba lance the rules of the Publication Manual with good judgment. Because the written language of psychology changes more s lowly than psychology itself, the Publication Manual does not offer sol utions for a l l styl istic problems. I n that sense, it is a trans ition­ a l document: Its style requ i rements a re based on the exist ing scientific l iteratu re rather than imposed on the l iterature. (American Psychological Association , 1 994, p . xxi i i )

Because of the diversity of practices in the social and behavioral sciences, we antici­ pated that the Publication Manual would likely prescribe new direction for some subdisciplines and merely describe the current state of scientific reporting for other subdisciplines.

New and Expanded Content

Chapter 1. Because of the importance of ethical issues that affect the conduct of scien­ tific inquiry, we have placed ethics discussions in this opening chapter and have signif­ icantly expanded coverage of several topics. New guidance is included on determining authorship and terms of collaboration, duplicate publication, plagiarism and self­ plagiarism, disguising of participants, validity of instrumentation, and making data available to others for verification.

Chapter 2. In Chapter 2, we provide comprehensive information on specific manuscript parts, which were located in several chapters in the last edition. For each manuscript part, we describe purpose and core content as well as how it should appear in text. This chapter has been significantly expanded with the addition of journal article reporting standards to help readers report empirical research with clarity and preci­ sion. We also provide an expanded discussion of statistical methods, including guid­ ance on reporting effect sizes. In addition, we provide a new section on the use and preparation of supplemental materials for the web. We close the chapter with a new selection of sample papers that instantiate elements of APA Style.

Chapter 3. In this chapter, we offer two areas with significantly changed content. First, we have simplified APA heading style to make it more conducive to electronic publi­ cation. Second, we have updated guidelines for reducing bias in language to reflect cur­ rent practices and preferences. A new section on presenting historical language that is inappropriate by present standards has been added, and examples of good and bad language choices have been expanded and moved to the web, where they are more accessible to all and can be easily updated.

Chapter 4. New content in Chapter 4 includes guidelines for reporting inferential statistics and a significantly revised table of statistical abbreviations. A new discus­ sion of using supplemental files containing lengthy data sets and other media is also included.

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Chapter 5. Procedures for developing graphic material have changed dramatically since the last edition of the Publication Manual was published. This chapter contains signif­ icantly expanded content on the electronic presentation of data. It will help readers understand the purpose of each kind of display and choose the best match for commu­ nicating the results of the investigation. We provide new examples for a variety of dis­ plays, including electrophysiological, imaging, and other biological data.

Chapter 6. In this chapter, we have consolidated information on all aspects of citations, beginning with guidance on how much to cite, how to format quotations, and how to navigate the permission process. Basic in-text citation styles and reference compo­ nents are covered in detail . The discussion of electronic sources has been greatly expanded, emphasizing the role of the digital object identifier as a reliable way to locate information.

Chapter 1. Chapter 7 contains a significantly expanded set of reference examples, with an emphasis on electronic formats, for readers to use in mastering the changes described in Chapter 6. New examples have been added for a number of online sources, from data sets and measurement instruments to software and online discussion forums.

Chapter 8. Chapter 8 has been revised to focus more on the publication process and less on specific APA policies and procedures. It includes an expanded discussion of the func­ tion and process of peer review; a discussion of ethical, legal, and policy requirements in publication; and guidelines on working with the publisher while the article is in press.

How to Use the Publication Manual The Publication Manual describes requirements for the preparation and submission of manuscripts for publication. Chapters in the Publication Manual provide substantive­ ly different kinds of information and are arranged in the sequence in which one con­ siders the elements of manuscript preparation, from initial concept through publica­ tion. Although each chapter is autonomous, individuals new to the publication process may benefit from reading the book from beginning to end to get a comprehensive overview.

Organizational Aids

We have included checklists throughout the book to help you organize tasks and review your progress. These are listed below.

Checklist name Page

Eth ica l Compl iance Checkl ist 20

Table Checkl ist 1 50

F igure Checklist 1 67

Checkl ist for Manuscript Submission 240

We have also provided sample papers to illustrate applications of APA Style. These include a one-experiment paper (Figure 2 .1 , pp. 41-53) , a two-experiment paper (Figure 2.2, pp. 54-56), and a sample paper reporting a meta-analysis (Figure 2.3, pp. 57-59) .

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Format Aids

Examples of points of style or format that appear throughout the book are in a con­ trasting typeface. This typeface is intended to help you locate examples quickly.

This is an example of the typeface used to i l l ustrate style points.

The following are other formatting aids that are designed to help the reader locate specific information quickly:

l1li A detailed table of contents lists the sections for each chapter and will help you locate categories of information quickly.

!ill An abbreviated table of contents appears inside the front cover for ease in locating broad categories of information.

!ill A list of tables and figures follows the table of contents and will help you locate spe­ cific tables and figures.

l1li An abbreviated index of commonly used references appears inside the back cover.

We hope that these format aids will assist you in finding the instruction you need in the pages that follow.1

Iyou may find that the appearance of these pages occasionally deviates from APA Style rules. For example, sections may not be double-spaced and may not be in 12-point limes Roman typeface. APA Style rules are designed for ease of reading in manuscript form. Published work often takes a different form in accordance with professional design standards.

Writing for the Behavioral and Social Sciences

esearch is complete only when the results are shared with the scientific com­ munity. Although such sharing is accomplished in various ways, both formal and informal, the traditional medium for communicating research results is

the scientific journal. The scientific journal is the repository of the accumulated knowledge of a field.

The findings and analyses, the successes and failures, and the perspectives of many investigators over many years are recorded in the literature. Familiarity with the liter­ ature allows an individual investigator to avoid needlessly repeating work that has been done before, to build on existing work, and in turn to contribute something new.

Just as each investigator benefits from the publication process, so the body of sci­ entific literature depends for its vitality on the active participation of individual inves­ tigators. Authors of scientific articles contribute most to the literature when they com­ municate clearly and concisely.

In this chapter, we discuss several considerations that authors should weigh before writing for publication--considerations both about their own research and about the sci­ entific publishing tradition. We begin by identifying the types of articles that appear in sci­ entific journals. In the rest of the chapter, we focus on overarching ethical and legal stan­ dards in publishing that must be addressed as a first step in planning an investigation.

Types of Articles Journal articles are usually reports of empirical studies, literature reviews, theoretical articles, methodological articles, or case studies. They are primary or original publica­ tions. Members of the scientific community generally agree that the characteristics of these publications are that (a) articles represent research not previously published (i .e., first disclosure; for a discussion of duplicate publication, see section 1 .09. ) , (b ) articles

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are reviewed by peers before being accepted or rejected by a journal, and (c) articles are archival (i .e., retrievable for future reference) .

1 .01 E mpirical Studies

Empirical studies are reports of original research. These include secondary analyses that test hypotheses by presenting novel analyses of data not considered or addressed in previous reports. They typically consist of distinct sections that reflect the stages in the research process and that appear in the following sequence:

III introduction: development of the problem under investigation, including its histori- cal antecedents, and statement of the purpose of the investigation;

.. method: description of the procedures used to conduct the investigation; .. results: report of the findings and analyses; and .. discussion: summary, interpretation, and implications of the results.

1.02 Literature Reviews

Literature reviews, including research syntheses and meta-analyses, are critical evalu­ ations of material that has already been published. In meta-analyses, authors use quan­ titative procedures to statistically combine the results of studies. By organizing, inte­ grating, and evaluating previously published material, authors of literature reviews consider the progress of research toward clarifying a problem. In a sense, literature reviews are tutorials, in that authors

.. define and clarify the problem; .. summarize previous investigations to inform the reader of the state of research; .. identify relations, contradictions, gaps, and inconsistencies in the literature; and .. suggest the next step or steps in solving the problem.

The components of literature reviews can be arranged in various ways (e.g., by group­ ing research based on similarity in the concepts or theories of interest, methodological similarities among the studies reviewed, or the historical development of the field) .

1.03 T heoretical Articles

In theoretical articles, authors draw on existing research literature to advance theory. Literature reviews and theoretical articles are often similar in structure, but theoretical articles present empirical information only when it advances a theoretical issue. Authors of theoretical articles trace the development of theory to expand and refine theoretical constructs or present a new theory or analyze existing theory, pointing out flaws or demonstrating the advantage of one theory over another. In this type of article, authors customarily examine a theory's internal consistency and external validity. The sections of a theoretical article, like those of a literature review, can vary in order of their content.

1 .04 Methodological Articles

Methodological articles present new methodological approaches, modifications of existing methods, or discussions of quantitative and data analytic approaches to the

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community of researchers. These articles focus on methodological or data analytic approaches and introduce empirical data only as illustrations of the approach. Methodological articles are presented at a level that makes them accessible to the well­ read researcher and provide sufficient detail for researchers to assess the applicability of the methodology to their research problem. Further, the article allows the reader to compare the proposed methods with those in current use and to implement the pro­ posed methods. In methodological articles, highly technical materials (e.g., derivations, proofs, details of simulations) should be presented in appendices or as supplemental materials to improve the overall readability of the article.

1 .05 Case Studies

Case studies are reports of case materials obtained while working with an individual, a group, a community, or an organization. Case studies illustrate a problem; indicate a means for solving a problem; and/or shed light on needed research, clinical applica­ tions, or theoretical matters. In writing case studies, authors carefully consider the bal­ ance between providing important illustrative material and using confidential case material responsibly. (See section 1 . 1 1 for a discussion on confidentiality. )

1 .06 Other Types of Articles

Other, less frequently published types of articles include brief reports, comments and replies on previously published articles, book reviews, obituaries, letters to the edi­ tor, and monographs. Consult with the editor of the journal to which you are con­ sidering submitting the manuscript for specific information regarding these kinds of articles.

Ethical and legal Standards i n Publ ish i n g

Much of the Publication Manual addresses scientific writing style. Style involves no inherent right or wrong. It is merely a conventional way of presenting information that is designed to ease communication. Different scholarly disciplines have different pub­ lication styles.

In contrast, basic ethical and legal principles underlie all scholarly research and writing. These long-standing principles are designed to achieve three goals:

II!l to ensure the accuracy of scientific knowledge, II!l to protect the rights and welfare of research participants, and rill to protect intellectual property rights.

Writers in the social and behavioral sciences work to uphold these goals and fol­ low the principles that have been established by their professional associations. The following guidance is drawn from the "Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct" (hereinafter referred to as the APA Ethics Code; APA, 2002; see also http://www.apa.org!ethics) , which contains standards that address the reporting and publishing of scientific data. Note that the APA Ethics Code is not a static document­ it may be revised and updated over time. Updates appear on the website as they become available.

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Ensuring the Accuracy of Scientific Knowledge 1 .07 Ethical Reporting of Research Results

The essence of the scientific method involves observations that can be repeated and verified by others. Thus, psychologists do not fabricate or falsify data (APA Ethics Code Standard 8 . 1 0a, Reporting Research Results) . Modifying results, including visu­ al images (for more discussion on visual images, see Chapter 5, section 5 .29) , to sup­ port a hypothesis or omitting troublesome observations from reports to present a more convincing story is also prohibited (APA Ethics Code Standard 5 .01a, Avoidance of False or Deceptive Statements) .

Careful preparation of manuscripts for publication i s essential, but errors can still occur. Authors are responsible for making such errors public if the errors are discov­ ered after publication. First, inform the editor and the publisher so that a correction notice can be published. The goal of such a notice is to correct the knowledge base so that the error is brought to the attention of future users of the information. Each cor­ rection notice is appended to the original article in an online database so that it will be retrieved whenever the original article is retrieved (for more details on correction notices, see section 8 .06; APA Ethics Code Standard 8 . 1 0b, Reporting Research Results) .

1.08 Data Retention and Sharing

Researchers must make their data available to the editor at any time during the review and publication process if questions arise with respect to the accuracy of the report. Refusal to do so can lead to rejection of the submitted manuscript without further con­ sideration. In a similar vein, once an article is published, researchers must make their data available to permit other qualified professionals to confirm the analyses and results (APA Ethics Code Standard 8 . 14a, Sharing Research Data for Verification). Authors are expected to retain raw data for a minimum of five years after publication of the research. Other information related to the research (e.g., instructions, treatment manuals, software, details of procedures, code for mathematical models reported in journal articles) should be kept for the same period; such information is necessary if others are to attempt replication and should be provided to qualified researchers on request (APA Ethics Code Standard 6.01 , Documentation of Professional and Scientific Work and Maintenance of Records) .

APA encourages the open sharing of data among qualified investigators. Authors are expected to comply promptly and in a spirit of cooperation with requests for data sharing from other researchers. Before sharing data, delete any personally identifiable information or code that would make it possible to reestablish a link to an individual participant's identity. In addition to protecting the confidentiality of research partici­ pants, special proprietary or other concerns of the investigator or sponsor of the research sometimes must be addressed as well. Generally, the costs of complying with the request should be borne by the requester.

To avoid misunderstanding, it is important for the researcher requesting data and the researcher providing data to come to a written agreement about the conditions under which the data are to be shared. Such an agreement must specify the limits on how the shared data may be used (e.g., for verification of already published results, for inclusion in meta-analytic studies, for secondary analysis) . The written agreement

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should also include a formal statement about limits on the distribution of the shared data (e.g., it may be used only by the person requesting the data, it may be used by the person requesting the data and individuals the requestor directly supervises, or there are no limits on the further distribution of the data ) . Furthermore, the agreement should specify limits on the dissemination (conference presentations, internal reports, journal articles, book chapters, etc . ) of the results of analyses performed on the data and authorship expectations. Data-sharing arrangements must be entered into with proper consideration of copyright restrictions, consent provided by subjects, require­ ments of funding agencies, and rules promulgated by the employer of the holder of the data (APA Ethics Code Standard 8 . 14b, Sharing Research Data for Verification) .

1 .09 Duplicate and Piecemeal Publication of Data

The scientific literature is our institutional memory. Thus, reports in the literature must accurately reflect the independence of separate research efforts. Both duplicate and piecemeal publication of data constitute threats to these goals. Duplicate publication is the publication of the same data or ideas in two separate sources. Piecemeal publi­ cation is the unnecessary splitting of the findings from one research effort into multi­ ple articles.

Duplicate publ ication. Misrepresentation of data as original when they have been pub­ lished previously is specifically prohibited by APA Ethics Code Standard 8 . 1 3, Duplicate Publication of Data. Duplicate publication distorts the knowledge base by making it appear that there is more information available than really exists . It also wastes scarce resources (journal pages and the time and efforts of editors and review­ ers ) . The prohibition against duplicate publication is especially critical for the cumula­ tive knowledge of the field. Duplicate publication can give the erroneous impressicm that findings are more replicable than is the case or that particular conclusions are more strongly supported than is warranted by the cumulative evidence. Duplicate pub­ lication can also lead to copyright violations; authors cannot assign the copyright for the same material to more than one publisher.

Previously published research. Authors must not submit to an APA journal a map­ uscript describing work that has been published previously in whole or in substi'lptial part elsewhere, whether in English or in another language. More important, authors should not submit manuscripts that have been published elsewhere in substantially similar form or with substantially similar content. Authors in doubt about what con­ stitutes prior publication should consult with the editor of the journal in question.

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This policy regarding duplicate publication does not necessarily exclude from cqn­ sideration manuscripts previously published in abstracted form (e.g., in the proce�d­ ings of an annual meeting) or in a periodical with limited circulation or availability (e.g., in a report by a university department, by a government agency, or in a U.S. dis­ sertation) . This policy does exclude from consideration the same or overlapping mate­ rial that has appeared in a publication that has been offered for public sale, such as conference proceedings or a book chapter; such a publication does not meet the crite­ rion of "limited circulation. " Publication of a brief report in an APA journal is with the understanding that an extended report will not be published elsewhere :�ecause APA brief reports include sufficient qescriptions of methodology to allow for repFc�­ tion; the brief report is the archival record for the work. Similarly, the restraints against

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duplicate publication do not preclude subsequent reanalysis of published data in light of new theories or methodologies, if the reanalysis is clearly labeled as such and pro­ vides new insights into the phenomena being studied.

Acknowledging and citing previous work. Authors sometimes want to publish what is essentially the same material in more than one venue to reach different audiences. However, such duplicate publication can rarely be justified, given the ready accessibil­ ity of computerized retrieval systems for published works. If it is deemed scientifically necessary to re-present previously published material-for instance, in reports of new analyses or to frame new research that follows up on previous work from the authors' laboratory-the following conditions must be met:

1 . The amount of duplicated material must be small relative to the total length of the text.

2. The text must clearly acknowledge in the author note and other relevant sections of the article (i .e., Method and/or Result sections) that the information was reported previously, and the citation to the previous work must be given.

3. Any republished tables and figures must be clearly marked as reprinted or adapted, and the original source must be provided both in the text and in a footnote to the table or figure.

4. The original publication venue must be clearly and accurately cited in the reference list (see also the discussion on self-plagiarism in section 1 . 1 0) .

When the original publication has multiple authors and the authorship is not iden­ tical on both publications, it is important that all authors receive agreed-upon credit (e.g., in an author note) for their contributions in the later publication.

Piecemeal publication. Authors are obligated to present work parsimoniously and as completely as possible within the space constraints of journal publications. Data that can be meaningfully combined within a single publication should be presented to­ gether to enhance effective communication. Piecemeal, or fragmented, publication of research findings can be misleading if multiple reports appear to represent independ­ ent instances of data collection or analyses; distortion of the scientific literature, espe­ cially in reviews or meta-analyses, may result. Piecemeal publication of several reports of the results from a single study is therefore undesirable unless there is a clear benefit to scientific communication. It may be quite difficult to determine whether such a ben­ efit exists when multiple dependent variables that were observed in the same sample and at the same time are reported in separate manuscripts. Authors who wish to divide the report of a study into more than one article should inform the editor and provide such information as the editor requests . Whether the publication of two or more reports based on the same or on closely related research constitutes fragmented publi­ cation is a matter of editorial judgment.

Reanalysis of published data. There may be times, especially in instances of large­ scale, longitudinal, or multidisciplinary projects, when it is both necessary and appro­ priate to publish multiple reports. Multidisciplinary projects often address diverse top­ ics, and publishing in a single journal may be inappropriate. Repeated publication from a longitudinal study is often appropriate because the data at different ages make unique scientific contributions. Further, useful knowledge should be made available to others as soon as possible, which is precluded if publication is withheld until all the studies are completed.

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As multiple reports from large-scale or longitudinal studies are created, authors are obligated to cite prior reports on the project to help the reader understand the work accurately. For example, in the early years of a longitudinal study, one might cite all previous publications from it. For a well-known or long-term longitudinal study, one might cite the original publication, a more recent summary, and earlier articles that focused on the same or related scientific questions addressed in the current report. Often it is not necessary to repeat the description of the design and methods of a lon­ gitudinal or large-scale project in its entirety. Authors may refer the reader to an earli­ er publication for this detailed information. It is important, however, to provide suffi­ cient information so that the reader can evaluate the current report. It is also important to make clear the degree of sample overlap in multiple reports from large studies. Again, authors should inform and consult with the editor prior to the submission of a manuscript of this type.

Alerting the editor. Whether the publication of two or more reports based on the same or closely related research constitutes duplicate publication is a matter of editorial judgment, as is the determination of whether the manuscript meets other publication criteria. Any prior publication should be noted (see previous section on acknowledg­ ing and citing previous work) and referenced in the manuscript, and authors must inform the journal editor of the existence of any similar manuscripts that have already been published or accepted for publication or that may be submitted for concurrent consideration to the same journal or elsewhere. The editor can then make an informed judgment as to whether the submitted manuscript includes sufficient new information to warrant consideration. If, during the review or production process, a manuscript is discovered to be in violation of duplicate publication policies and authors have failed to inform the editor of the possible violation, then the manuscript can be rejected with­ out further consideration. If such a violation is discovered after publication in an APA journal, appropriate action such as retraction by the publisher or notice of duplicate publication will be taken.

Journal articles sometimes are revised for publication as book chapters. Authors have a responsibility to reveal to the reader that portions of the new work were previ­ ously published and to cite and reference the source. If copyright is owned by a pub­ lisher or by another person, authors must acknowledge copyright and obtain permis­ sion to adapt or reproduce.

1 . 1 0 Plagiarism and Self-Plagiarism

Plagiarism. Researchers do not claim the words and ideas of another as their own; they give credit where credit is due (APA Ethics Code Standard 8 . 1 1 , Plagiarism) . Quotation marks should be used to indicate the exact words of another. Each time you paraphrase another author (i .e . , summarize a passage or rearrange the order of a sen­ tence and change some of the words) , you need to credit the source in the text. The following paragraph is an example of how one might appropriately paraphrase some of the foregoing material in this section.

As stated in the sixth edit ion of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA, 201 0), the eth ica l pr inc ip les of scientific pub l ica­ tion a re designed to ensure the integrity of scientific knowledge and to protect the inte l lectua l property rights of others . As the Publication Manual expla ins ,

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authors a re expected to correct the record if they discover errors i n their pub l i­ cations; they are a lso expected to g ive credit to others for their prior work when it is quoted or paraphrased .

The key element of this principle is that authors do not present the work of anoth­ er as if it were their own work. This can extend to ideas as well as written words. If authors model a study after one done by someone else, the originating author should be given credit. If the rationale for a study was suggested in the Discussion section of someone else's article, that person should be given credit. Given the free exchange of ideas, which is very important to the health of intellectual discourse, authors may not know where an idea for a study originated. If authors do know, however, they should acknowledge the source; this includes personal communications. (For additional infor­ mation on quotations and paraphrasing, see sections 6 .03-6.08; for instructions on referencing publications and personal communications, see sections 6 . 1 1-6.20. )

Self-plagiarism. Just a s researchers do not present the work of others a s their own (pla­ giarism), they do not present their own previously published work as new scholarship (self-plagiarism). There are, however, limited circumstances (e.g., describing the details of an instrument or an analytic approach) under which authors may wish to duplicate without attribution (citation) their previously used words, feeling that extensive self­ referencing is undesirable or awkward. When the duplicated words are limited in scope, this approach is permissible. When duplication of one's own words is more extensive, citation of the duplicated words should be the norm. What constitutes the maximum acceptable length of duplicated material is difficult to define but must conform to legal notions of fair use. The general view is that the core of the new document must consti­ tute an original contribution to knowledge, and only the amount of previously pub­ lished material necessary to understand that contribution should be included, primarily in the discussion of theory and methodology. When feasible, all of the author's own words that are cited should be located in a single paragraph or a few paragraphs, with a citation at the end of each. Opening such paragraphs with a phrase like "as I have pre­ viously discussed" will also alert readers to the status of the upcoming material.

Protecting the R ights and Welfare of Research Participants

1 . 1 1 Rights and Confidential ity of Research Participants

Certification of standards. Standards 8.01-8.09 of the APA Ethics Code specify the princi­ ples psychologists are to follow in conducting research with humans and animals. Authors, regardless of field, are required to certify that they have followed these standards as a precondition of publishing their articles in APA journals (see http://www.apa.org! journals; see also Figure 8 .2, pp. 233-234). Authors are also encouraged to include such certifications in the description of participants in the text of the manuscript. Failure to fol­ low these standards can be grounds for rejecting a manuscript for publication or for retraction of a published article.

Protecting confidential ity. When researchers use case studies to describe their research, they are prohibited from disclosing "confidential, personally identifiable information concerning their patients, individual or organizational clients, students, research par-

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ticipants, or other recipients of their services" (APA Ethics Code Standard 4.07, Use of Confidential Information for Didactic or Other Purposes) . Confidentiality in case stud­ ies is generally handled by one of two means. One option is to prepare the descriptive case material, present it to the subject of the case report, and obtain written consent for its publication from the subject. In doing so, however, one must be careful not to exploit persons over whom one has supervisory, evaluative, or other authority such as clients, patients, supervisees, employees, or organizational clients (see APA Ethics Code Standard 3 .08, Exploitative Relationships) . The other option is to disguise some aspects of the case material so that neither the subject nor third parties (e.g., family members, employers) are identifiable. Four main strategies have emerged for achieving this: (a ) altering specific characteristics, (b) limiting the description of specific characteristics, (c ) obfuscating case detail by adding extraneous material, and (d) using composites.

Such disguising of cases is a delicate issue because it is essential not to change vari­ ables that would lead the reader to draw false conclusions related to the phenomena being described (Tuckett, 2000) . For example, altering the subject's gender in a case illus­ trating a promising therapy for rape trauma might compromise its educative value if the client-patient's gender played a significant role in the treatment. Subject details should be omitted only if they are not essential to the phenomenon described. Subject privacy, how­ ever, should never be sacrificed for clinical or scientific accuracy. Cases that cannot ade­ quately disguise identifiable subject information should not be submitted for publication. For additional information on the presentation of case material, see VandenBos (2001 ) .

1 . 1 2 Conflict of Interest

In all scientific disciplines, professional communications are presumed to be based on objective interpretations of evidence and unbiased interpretation of fact. An author's economic and commercial interests in products or services used or discussed in a paper may color such objectivity. Although such relations do not necessarily constitute a con­ flict of interest, the integrity of the field requires disclosure of the possibilities of such potentially distorting influences where they may exist. In general, the safest and most open course of action is to disclose in an author note activities and relationships that if known to others might be viewed as a conflict of interest, even if you do not believe that any conflict or bias exists .

Whether an interest is significant will depend on individual circumstances and can­ not be defined by a dollar amount. Holdings in a company through a mutual fund are not ordinarily sufficient to warrant disclosure, whereas salaries, research grants, con­ sulting fees, and personal stock holdings would be. Being the copyright holder of and/or recipient of royalties from a psychological test might be another example. Participation on a board of directors or any other relationship with an entity or person that is in some way part of the paper should also be carefully considered for possible disclosure.

In addition to disclosure of possible sources of positive bias, authors should also carefully consider disclosure when circumstances could suggest bias against a product, service, facility, or person. For example, having a copyright or royalty interest in a competing psychological test or assessment protocol might be seen as a possible source of negative bias against another test instrument.

The previous examples refer to possible conflicts of interest of a researcher in the con­ duct of the research. It is important to recognize that reviewers of research reports also have potential conflicts of interest. In general, one should not review a manuscript from a colleague or collaborator, a close personal friend, or a recent student. Typically, the action

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editor will not select individuals to be reviewers in which this obvious conflict of interest may exist. However, if this might occur, a potential reviewer should consult with the action editor about whether recusal from the evaluation process would be appropriate.

Reviewers also have an ethical obligation to be open and fair in assessing a man­ uscript without bias. If for any reason a reviewer may find this difficult, it is appropri­ ate to discuss the potential conflict of interest with the action editor as soon as this sit­ uation becomes apparent.

Last, reviewers have an obligation to maintain the confidentiality of a manuscript. This means, in general, that one does not discuss the manuscript with another individ­ ual. Moreover, as noted in section 1 . 14, "editors and reviewers may not use the mate­ rial from an unpublished manuscript to advance their own or others' work without the author's consent ."

Protecting I ntel lectual Property Rig hts

1 . 1 3 Publication Credit

Authorship is reserved for persons who make a substantial contribution to and who accept responsibility for a published work.

Definition of authorship. Individuals should only take authorship credit for work they have actually performed or to which they have substantially contributed (APA Ethics Code Standard 8 . l2a, Publication Credit) . Authorship encompasses, therefore, not only those who do the actual writing but also those who have made substantial scientific con­ tributions to a study. Substantial professional contributions may include formulating the problem or hypothesis, structuring the experimental design, organizing and conducting the statistical analysis, interpreting the results, or writing a major portion of the paper. Those who so contribute are listed in the byline. Lesser contributions, which do not con­ stitute authorship, may be acknowledged in a note (see section 2.03 ) . These contributions may include such supportive functions as designing or building the apparatus, suggesting or advising about the statistical analysis, collecting or entering the data, modifying or structuring a computer program, and recruiting participants or obtaining animals. Conducting routine observations or diagnoses for use in studies does not constitute authorship. Combinations of these (and other) tasks, however, may justify authorship.

Determining authorship. As early as practicable in a research project, the collaborators should decide on which tasks are necessary for the project's completion, how the work will be divided, which tasks or combination of tasks merits authorship credit, and on what level credit should be given (first author, second author, etc. ) . Collaborators may need to reassess authorship credit and order if changes in relative contribution are made in the course of the project (and its publication) . This is especially true in faculty­ student collaborations, when students may need more intensive supervision than origi­ nally anticipated, when additional analyses are required beyond the scope of a student's current level of training (Fisher, 2003 ), or when the level of the contribution of the stu­ dent exceeds that originally anticipated.

When a paper is accepted by an editor, each person listed in the byline must verify in writing that he or she agrees to serve as an author and accepts the responsibilities of authorship (see the section on author responsibilities at the beginning of Chapter 8 ) .

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Order of authorship. Authors are responsible for determining authorship and for spec­ ifying the order in which two or more authors' names appear in the byline. The gen­ eral rule is that the name of the principal contributor should appear first, with subse­ quent names in order of decreasing contribution, but this convention can vary from field to field. If authors played equal roles in the research and publication of their study, they may wish to note this in the author note (see section 2.03 for more infor­ mation on author notes ) .

Principal authorship and the order of authorship credit should accurately reflect the relative contributions of persons involved (APA Ethics Code Standard 8 . 1 2b, Publication Credit) . Relative status (i.e., department chair, junior faculty member, stu­ dent) should not determine the order of authorship. Because doctoral work is expect­ ed to represent an independent and original contribution devised by students, except under rare circumstances, students should be listed as the principal author of any mul­ tiauthored papers substantially based on their dissertation (APA Ethics Code Standard 8 . 12c, Publication Credit) . Unusual exceptions to doctoral student first authorship might occur when the doctoral dissertation is published as part of a collection of stud­ ies involving other researchers (Fisher, 2003 ) . Whether students merit principal author­ ship on master's-level or other pre doctoral research will depend on their specific con­ tributions to the research. When master's-level students make the primary contributions to a study, they should be listed as the first author. When students are just beginning to acquire skills necessary to make a primary scientific contribution, they may conduct master's theses that involve the opportunity to learn these skills through collaboration on a faculty-originated project. In such cases, authorship should be determined by the relative contributions of student and faculty member to the proj ­ ect (Fisher, 2003 ) .

1 . 14 Reviewers

Editorial review of a manuscript requires that the editors and reviewers circulate and discuss the manuscript. During the review process, the manuscript is a confidential and privileged document. Editors and reviewers may not, without authors' explicit permis­ sion, quote from a manuscript under review or circulate copies of it for any purpose other than editorial review (APA Ethics Code Standard 8 . 15, Reviewers; see section 8 .01 for a detailed discussion of the peer review process ) . If reviewers for APA journals wish to consult with a colleague about some aspect of the manuscript, the reviewer must request permission from the editor prior to approaching the colleague. Publishers have different policies on this, and reviewers should consult with the editor about this mat­ ter. In addition, editors and reviewers may not use the material from an unpublished manuscript to advance their own or others' work without the author's consent.

1 . 1 5 Author's Copyright on an U npublished Manuscript

Authors are protected by federal statute against unauthorized use of their unpublished manuscripts . Under the Copyright Act of 1 976 (title 17 of the United States Code), an unpublished work is copyrighted from the moment it is fixed in tangible form-for example, typed on a page. Copyright protection is "an incident of the process of authorship" (U.S. Copyright Office, 1981 , p. 3 ) . Until authors formally transfer copy­ right (see section 8 .05) , they own the copyright on an unpublished manuscript, and all

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exclusive rights due the copyright owner of a published work are also due authors of an unpublished work. To ensure copyright protection, include the copyright notice on all published works (e.g., Copyright [year) by [name of copyright holder) ) . The notice need not appear on unpublished works; nonetheless, it is recommended that a copy­ right notice be included on all works, whether published or not. Registration of copyright provides a public record and is usually a prerequisite for any legal action.

1 . 1 6 Planning for Ethical Compliance

Regardless of the type of article involved, attention to ethical concerns begins long before a manuscript is submitted for publication. Authors submitting a manuscript to an APA journal are required to submit a form stating their compliance with ethical standards for publication as well as a form disclosing any conflicts of interest ( see Chapter 8 , Figures 8.2 and 8 .3, pp. 233-235) once a manuscript i s accepted. We encourage authors to consult these forms before beginning their research project and at regular intervals throughout the entire research process. Whether or not the work will be submitted to an APA journal, issues related to institutional approval, informed consent, deception in research, and participant protections should be carefully considered while the research is in the planning stages and may be the basis of questions for editors or reviewers (see Chapter 8 ) . In particular, we urge researchers to review the following checklist.

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o Have you obta i ned permission for use of unpubl ished i nstruments, proce­ dures, or data that other researchers m ight consider theirs (proprieta ry) ?

o Have you properly c ited other publ ished work presented i n port ions of your manuscript?

o Are you prepared to answer questions about institutiona l review of you r study or studies?

o Are you prepared to answer editoria l questions about the i nformed consent and debrief ing procedures you used ?

o If you r study involved an ima l subjects, are you prepared to answer editoria l questions about humane care and use of an ima ls i n research?

o Have a l l authors reviewed the manuscript and agreed on respons ib i l ity for its content?

o Have you adequately protected the confidentia l ity of research partic ipants, c l ients-patients, organ izations, th i rd parties, or others who were the source of i nformation presented in th is manuscript?

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Manuscript Structure and Content

In this chapter, we describe the structure of the manuscript, with a focus on function and format. For each manuscript element, we detail current expectations for the content. In each section, the following kinds of information are included: • a definition or description of the manuscript part, • specific guidelines on content to be included, and • guidelines on how the part should appear in text. 1

In this edition of the Publication Manual, we present updated journal article reporting standards, and these are also discussed in this chapter. These reporting stan­ dards relate to material recommended to appear in the abstract, the introduction of the research problem, the method section, the results, and the discussion of the results . Also presented are three specific modules relating to studies with manipulated condi­ tions or interventions. The chapter ends with sample papers that illustrate the function and format of the sections described.

Journal Article Reporting Standards

Reporting standards provide a degree of comprehensiveness in the information that is routinely included in reports of empirical investigations. The motivation for the devel­ opment of reporting standards has come from within the disciplines of the behavioral, social, educational, and medical sciences. Uniform reporting standards make it easier to generalize across fields, to more fully understand the implications of individual stud­ ies, and to allow techniques of meta-analysis to proceed more efficiently. Also, decision makers in policy and practice have emphasized the importance of understanding how research was conducted and what was found. A set of comprehensive reporting stan­ dards facilitates this understanding.

lNote that guidelines for the formatting and preparation of the complete manuscript can be found in section 8.03.

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Reporting standards are based on the research design and implementation of the study being reported, not on the topical focus of the study or the particular journal that might serve as the vehicle for its publication. Reporting standards are emergent and have not yet been developed for all types of studies.

In the next section, we describe a set of reporting standards relating to the mate­ rial recommended to appear in (a) the abstract; (b) the introduction of the research problem; (c) subsections of the method section describing the characteristics of the par­ ticipants; sampling procedures; sample size, power, and precision; measures and covari­ ates; and the general descriptor of the research design; (d) the statistical results; and (e) the discussion of results . These standards relate to all types of research designs. Then we present three specific modules relating to studies with manipulated conditions or interventions. You can use (or a journal editor may ask you to use) these modules in addition to the general template if they are relevant to the research at hand. One mod­ ule contains standards for describing the experimental manipulation or intervention itself, and the other two modules describe features of designs with experimental (i .e. , random assignment) and quasi-experimental (i .e. , nonrandom assignment) research designs. We also provide a flow chart to help you describe how subjects moved through the experimental or quasi-experimental study. In the same spirit, we include standards for reports of meta-analyses. Before you begin to write a manuscript, con­ sult the particular journal to which you are considering submitting and see whether there are journal-specific guidelines regarding your research design.

We relied heavily on previous efforts to construct reporting standards in develop­ ing the standards presented here . For example, for the Journal Article Reporting Standards, Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials ( CONSORT; 2007; see http://www.consort-statement.orgl) and Transparent Reporting of Evaluations With Nonexperimental Designs (TREND; see http ://www.trend-statement .org/asp/ trend.asp) were used. Four earlier efforts contributed to the meta-analysis reporting standards. A complete description of how the standards were developed can be found in "Reporting Standards for Research in Psychology: Why Do We Need Them? What Might They Be? " (APA Publications and Communications Board Working Group on Journal Article Reporting Standards, 2008 ) .

Four sets of guidelines, which can be found in the Appendix, have been created to help you decide which elements are relevant to your study. These guidelines are from the American Psychologist article (see previous paragraph) and include entries beyond those discussed in this chapter. For information on content, refer to Table 1 of the Appendix, Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS) : Information Recommended for Inclusion in Manuscripts That Report New Data Collections Regardless of Research Design. The additional modules for designs involving experimental manipu­ lations and interventions can be found in Table 2 of the Appendix, Module A: Reporting Standards for Studies With an Experimental Manipulation or Intervention (in Addition to Material Presented in Table 1 ) and Table 3 of the Appendix, Reporting Standards for Studies Using Random and Nonrandom Assignment of Participants to Experimental Groups. The fourth set of guidelines is titled Meta-Analysis Reporting Standards [MARS] : Information Recommended for Inclusion in Manuscripts Reporting Meta-Analyses, which can be found in Table 4 of the Appendix.

Not everything in these guidelines will be relevant to every article you prepare. Also, as descriptions of research expand, so does the space needed to report them. Technological changes now allow authors to supplement their articles with additional

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online-only material to facilitate complete reporting. Most scholarly publishers, including the APA, now make available to authors online supplemental archives that can be used to store supplemental materials associated with the articles that appear in print. So, some of the material in the appendices may not appear in the published arti­ cle itself but rather in an online supplemental archive. We discuss supplemental mate­ rial more fully in section 2 . 13 .

Manuscript Elements

2.01 Title

A title should summarize the main idea of the manuscript simply and, if possible, with style. It should be a concise statement of the main topic and should identify the vari­ ables or theoretical issues under investigation and the relationship between them. An example of a good title is "Effect of Transformed Letters on Reading Speed. "

A title should be fully explanatory when standing alone. Although its principal function is to inform readers about the study, a title is also used as a statement of arti­ cle content for abstracting and reference purposes in databases such as APA's PsycINFO. A good title is easily shortened to the running head used within the published article.

Titles are commonly indexed and compiled in numerous reference works. Therefore, avoid words that serve no useful purpose; they increase length and can mislead indexers. For example, the words method and results do not normally appear in a title, nor should such terms as A Study of or An Experimental Investigation of. Occasionally a term such as a research synthesis or a meta-analysis or fMRI study of conveys important informa­ tion for the potential reader and is included in the title. Avoid using abbreviations in a title; spelling out all terms helps ensure accurate, complete indexing of the article. The recommended length for a title is no more than 12 words.

The title should be typed in uppercase and lowercase letters, centered between the left and right margins, and positioned in the upper half of the page.

2.02 Author's Name ( Byl ine) and Institutional Affil iation

Every manuscript includes the name of the author and the institutional affiliation of the author when the research was conducted.

Author's name (byl ine). The preferred form of an author's name is first name, middle initial (s } , and last name; this form reduces the likelihood of mistaken identity. To assist researchers as well as librarians, use the same form for publication throughout your career; that is, do not use initials on one manuscript and the full name on a later one. Determining whether Juanita A. Smith is the same person as J. A. Smith, J. Smith, or A. Smith can be difficult, particularly when citations span several years and institutional affiliations change. Omit all titles (e.g., Dr. , Professor) and degrees (e .g. , PhD, PsyD, EdD) .

Institutional affil iation. The affiliation identifies the location where the author or authors were when the research was conducted, which is usually an institution. Include a dual affiliation only if two institutions contributed substantial support to the study. Include no more than two affiliations per author. When an author has no institutional affiliation, list the city and state of residence below the author's name. If the institu-

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Byline variation

One author, no aff i l iation

Two authors (with suffixes) , one aff i l iation

Three authors, one affi l iation

Two authors, two affi l iat ions

Example

Mary S . Haggerty Rochester, New York

John O. Foster I I and Roy R. Davis J r. Educational Testing Service, Pr inceton, New Jersey

Juan ita Fuentes, Pau l Dykes, and Susan Watanabe Un ivers ity of Colorado at Boulder

David Wolf Un iversity of Cal iforn ia , Berke ley Amanda B lue Brandon Un ivers ity

Three authors, two aff i l iations Mariah Meade and Sylvia Ear leywine Georgetown U n ivers ity Jeffrey Coffee Dartmouth Col lege

tional affiliation has changed since the work was completed, give the current affilia­ tion in the author note (see Table 2. 1 ) .

The names of the authors should appear in the order o f their contributions, cen­ tered between the side margins. For names with suffixes (e.g., Jr. and III ) , separate the suffix from the rest of the name with a space instead of a comma. The institutional affiliation should be centered under the author's name, on the next line.

John O. Foster I I and Roy R . Davis J r. Educationa l Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey

2 .03 Author Note

An author note appears with each printed article to identify each author's departmen­ tal affiliation, provide acknowledgments, state any disclaimers or perceived conflict of interest, and provide a point of contact for the interested reader. (Students should note that an author note is usually not a requirement for theses and dissertations. ) Notes should be arranged as follows.

First paragraph: Complete departmental affil iation. Identify departmental affiliations at the time of the study for all authors. Format as follows: name of the author as it appears in the byline, comma, department name, comma, university name, semicolon, next author name, and so on, and end with a period. If an author is not affiliated with an institution, provide the city and state (provide city and country for authors whose affil­ iations are outside of the United States, and include province for authors in Canada or Australia) . No degrees should be given, and state names should be spelled out.

Second paragraph: Changes of affi l iation ( if any). Identify any changes in author affili­ ation subsequent to the time of the study. Use the following wording: [author's name] is now at [affi l iation ) . The affiliation should include the department and institution.

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Thi rd paragraph. Acknowledgments. Identify grants or other financial support (and the source, if

appropriate) for your study; do not precede grant numbers by No. or #. Next, acknowledge colleagues who assisted in conducting the study or critiquing the manu­ script. Do not acknowledge the persons routinely involved in the review and accept­ ance of manuscripts-peer reviewers or editors, associate editors, and consulting edi­ tors of the journal in which the article is to appear. (If you would like to acknowledge a specific idea raised by a reviewer, do so in the text where the idea is discussed. ) In this paragraph, also explain any special agreements concerning authorship, such as if authors contributed equally to the study. End this paragraph with thanks for personal assistance, such as in manuscript preparation.

Special circumstances. If there are any special circumstances, disclose them before the acknowledgments in the third paragraph. For example, if the manuscript is based on data also used in a previously published report (e.g., a longitudinal study) or a doctoral dissertation, state that information in this paragraph. Also, acknowledge the publication of related reports (e.g., reports on the same database) . If any relationships may be perceived as a conflict of interest (e.g., if you own stock in a company that manufactures a drug used in your study) , explain them here. If your employer or granting organization requires a disclaimer stating, for example, that the research reported does not reflect the views of that organization, such a statement is included in this paragraph.

Fourth paragraph: Person to contact (mai l ing address, e-mai l ). Provide a complete mailing address for correspondence. End this paragraph with an e-mail address and no period.

Jane Doe, Department of Psychology, Un iversity of I l l i nois at U rbana-Champaign ; John Smith, Department of Educationa l Psychology, Un ivers ity of Ch icago.

John Smith is now at Department of Psychology, U n ivers ity of Ca l ifornia , San Diego.

This research was supported in pa rt by grants from the Nat ional I nstitute on Aging and from the John D . and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation .

Correspondence concern ing this article should be addressed to Jane Doe, Department of Psychology, Un ivers ity of I l l i nois, Champa ign , IL 6 1 820. E-ma i l : jdoe@uiuc .edu

Place the author note on the title page, below the title, byline, and affiliation. Center the label Author Note. Start each paragraph of the note with an indent, and type separate paragraphs for the authors' names and current affiliations, changes in affiliations, acknowledgments, and special circumstances, if any, along with the person to contact. The author note is not numbered or cited in the text.

2.04 Abstract

An abstract is a brief, comprehensive summary of the contents of the article; it allows readers to survey the contents of an article quickly and, like a title, it enables persons inter­ ested in the document to retrieve it from abstracting and indexing databases. Most schol-

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arly journals require an abstract. Consult the instructions to authors or web page of the journal to which you plan to submit your article for any journal-specific instructions.

A well-prepared abstract can be the most important single paragraph in an article. Most people have their first contact with an article by seeing just the abstract, usually in comparison with several other abstracts, as they are doing a literature search. Readers frequently decide on the basis of the abstract whether to read the entire arti­ cle. The abstract needs to be dense with information. By embedding key words in your abstract, you enhance the user's ability to find it. A good abstract is

1111 accurate: Ensure that the abstract correctly reflects the purpose and content of the manuscript. Do not include information that does not appear in the body of the manuscript. If the study extends or replicates previous research, note this in the abstract and cite the author's last name and the year of the relevant report. Comparing an abstract with an outline of the manuscript's headings is a useful way to verify its accuracy.

!!ill nonevaluative: Report rather than evaluate; do not add to or comment on what is in the body of the manuscript.

!!ill coherent and readable: Write in clear and concise language. Use verbs rather than their noun equivalents and the active rather than the passive voice (e.g., investigated rather than an investigation of; The authors presented the results instead of Results were presented) . Use the present tense to describe conclusions drawn or results with continuing applicability; use the past tense to describe specific variables manipulat­ ed or outcomes measured.

1111 concise: Be brief, and make each sentence maximally informative, especially the lead sentence. Begin the abstract with the most important points. Do not waste space by repeating the title. Include in the abstract only the four or five most important con­ cepts, findings, or implications. Use the specific words in your abstract that you think your audience will use in their electronic searches.

An abstract of a report of an empirical study should describe

!!ill the problem under investigation, in one sentence if possible; !!ill the participants, specifying pertinent characteristics such as age, sex, and ethnic

and/or racial group; in animal research, specifying genus and species;

!!ill the essential features of study method-you have a limited number of words so restrict your description to essential and interesting features of the study methodology­ particularly those likely to be used in electronic searches;

III the basic findings, including effect sizes and confidence intervals and/or statistical significance levels; and

III the conclusions and the implications or applications.

An abstract for a literature review or meta-analysis should describe

!Ill the problem or relation(s ) under investigation; III study eligibility criteria; 1111 type(s ) of participants included in primary studies; III main results (including the most important effect sizes) and any important modera­

tors of these effect sizes;

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!!II conclusions (including limitations) ; and fill implications for theory, policy, and/or practice.

An abstract for a theory-oriented paper should describe

fill how the theory or model works and/or the principles on which it is based and fill what phenomena the theory or model accounts for and linkages to empirical results.

An abstract for a methodological paper should describe

fill the general class of methods being discussed; fill the essential features of the proposed method; fill the range of application of the proposed method; and III! in the case of statistical procedures, some of its essential features such as robustness

or power efficiency.

An abstract for a case study should describe

!!II the subject and relevant characteristics of the individual, group, community, or organization presented;

I!II the nature of or solution to a problem illustrated by the case example; and fill the questions raised for additional research or theory.

Do not exceed the abstract word limit of the journal to which you are submitting your article. Word limits vary from journal to journal and typically range from 150 to 250 words. For information on how abstracts are used to retrieve articles, consult Record Structure for APA Databases ( Sick, 2009 ) .

When preparing your manuscript, begin the abstract o n a new page and identify it with the running head or abbreviated title and the page number 2. The label Abstract should appear in uppercase and lowercase letters, centered, at the top of the page. Type the abstract itself as a single paragraph without paragraph indentation.

2.05 Introduction

Introduce the problem. The body of a manuscript opens with an introduction that pres­ ents the specific problem under study and describes the research strategy. Because the introduction is clearly identified by its position in the manuscript, it does not carry a heading labeling it the introduction.

Before writing the introduction, consider the following questions :

II Why is this problem important? IIIil How does the study relate to previous work in the area ? If other aspects of this study

have been reported previously, how does this report differ from, and build on, the earlier report?

III! What are the primary and secondary hypotheses and objectives of the study, and what, if any, are the links to theory?

II!I How do the hypotheses and research design relate to one another? !ill What are the theoretical and practical implications of the study?

A good introduction answers these questions in just a few pages and, by summa­ rizing the relevant arguments and the past evidence, gives the reader a firm sense of what was done and why.

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Explore importance of the problem. State why the problem deserves new research. For basic research, the statement about importance might involve the need to resolve any inconsistency in results of past work and/or extend the reach of a theoretical formula­ tion. For applied research, this might involve the need to solve a social problem or treat a psychological disorder. When research is driven by the desire to resolve controversial issues, all sides in the debate should be represented in balanced measure in the intro­ duction. Avoid animosity and ad hominem arguments in presenting the controversy. Conclude the statement of the problem in the introduction with a brief but formal statement of the purpose of the research that summarizes the material preceding it. For literature reviews as well as theoretical and methodological articles, also clearly state the reasons that the reported content is important and how the article fits into the cumulative understanding of the field.

Describe relevant scholarship. Discuss the relevant related literature, but do not feel compelled to include an exhaustive historical account. Assume that the reader is knowledgeable about the basic problem and does not require a complete accounting of its history. A scholarly description of earlier work in the introduction provides a summary of the most recent directly related work and recognizes the priority of the work of others. Citation of and specific credit to relevant earlier works are signs of scientific and scholarly responsibility and are essential for the growth of a cumula­ tive science. In the description of relevant scholarship, also inform readers whether other aspects of this study have been reported on previously and how the current use of the evidence differs from earlier uses. At the same time, cite and reference only works pertinent to the specific issue and not those that are of only tangential or gen­ eral significance. When summarizing earlier works, avoid nonessential details; instead, emphasize pertinent findings, relevant methodological issues, and major conclusions . Refer the reader to general surveys or research syntheses of the topic if they are available.

Demonstrate the logical continuity between previous and present work. Develop the problem with enough breadth and clarity to make it generally understood by as wide a professional audience as possible. Do not let the goal of brevity lead you to write a statement intelligible only to the specialist.

State hypotheses and their correspondence to research design. After you have intro­ duced the problem and have developed the background material, explain your approach to solving the problem. In empirical studies, this usually involves stating your hypotheses or specific question and describing how these were derived from theo­ ry or are logically connected to previous data and argumentation. Clearly develop the rationale for each. Also, if you have some hypotheses or questions that are central to your purpose and others that are secondary or exploratory, state this prioritization. Explain how the research design permits the inferences needed to examine the hypoth­ esis or provide estimates in answer to the question.

In preparing your manuscript, begin the introduction on a new page, identifying it with the running head and the page number 3. Type the title of the manuscript in uppercase and lowercase letters centered at the top of the page, and then type the text. The remaining sections of the article follow each other without a break; do not start a new page when a new heading occurs. Each remaining manuscript page should also carry the running head and a page number.

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2 .06 Method

The Method section describes in detail how the study was conducted, including con­ ceptual and operational definitions of the variables used in the study. Different types of studies will rely on different methodologies; however, a complete description of the methods used enables the reader to evaluate the appropriateness of your meth­ ods and the reliability and the validity of your results . It also permits experienced investigators to replicate the study. If your manuscript is an update of an ongoing or earlier study and the method has been published in detail elsewhere, you may refer the reader to that source and simply give a brief synopsis of the method in this sec­ tion ( see also section 1 . 1 0, regarding self-plagiarism) . The following is an example of such a synopsis:

We present cross-sectional and 3-year longitud ina l data from a study of adu lts aged 55 to 84 . . . . The memory tasks were those used in our previous research (Ze l inski et a I . , 1 990; Ze l i nsk i , G i lewski , & Thompson, 1 980) .

If you are reporting on multiple experiments, see section 2.09.

Identify subsections. It is both conventional and expedient to divide the Method sec­ tion into labeled subsections. These usually include a section with descriptions of the participants or subjects and a section describing the procedures used in the study. The latter section often includes description of (a) any experimental manipulations or inter­ ventions used and how they were delivered-for example, any mechanical apparatus used to deliver them; (b ) sampling procedures and sample size and precision; (c) meas­ urement approaches ( including the psychometric properties of the instruments used) ; and (d) the research design. If the design of the study is complex or the stimuli require detailed description, additional subsections or subheadings to divide the subsections may be warranted to help readers find specific information.

Include in these subsections the information essential to comprehend and replicate the study. Insufficient detail leaves the reader with questions; too much detail burdens the reader with irrelevant information. Consider using appendices andlor a supplemen­ tal website for more detailed information (see section 2. 1 3 ) .

Participant (subject) characteristics. Appropriate identification o f research partici­ pants is critical to the science and practice of psychology, particularly for generalizing the findings, making comparisons across replications, and using the evidence in research syntheses and secondary data analyses. If humans participated in the study, report the eligibility and exclusion criteria, including any restrictions based on demo­ graphic characteristics.

Describe the sample adequately. Detail the sample's major demographic charac­ teristics, such as age; sex; ethnic andlor racial group; level of education; socioeco­ nomic, generational, or immigrant status; disability status; sexual orientation; gen­ der identity; and language preference as well as important topic-specific characteristics (e .g. , achievement level in studies of educational interventions ) . As a rule, describe the groups as specifically as possible, with particular emphasis on characteristics that may have bearing on the interpretation of results . Often, partic­ ipant characteristics can be important for understanding the nature of the sample

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and the degree to which results can be generalized. For example, the following is a useful characterization of a sample:

The second group inc l uded 40 women between the ages of 20 and 30 years ( M = 24.2 , SO = 2 . 1 ) , a l l of whom had emigrated from EI Sa lvador; had at least 1 2 years of education; had been permanent res idents of the U n ited States for at least 1 0 years ; and l ived in Wash ington, DC.

To determine how far the data can be generalized, you may find it useful to identify subgroups:

or

The Asian sample inc l uded 30 Ch inese and 45 Vietnamese persons .

Among the Latino and H ispan ic American men , 20 were Mexican American and 20 were Puerto Rican .

Even when a characteristic i s not used in analysis of the data, reporting i t may give readers a more complete understanding of the sample and the generalizability of results and may prove useful in meta-analytic studies that incorporate the article's results.

When animals are used, report the genus, species, and strain number or other spe­ cific identification, such as the name and location of the supplier and the stock desig­ nation. Give the number of animals and the animals' sex, age, weight, and physiolog­ ical condition.

Sampling procedures. Describe the procedures for selecting participants, including (a ) the sampling method, i f a systematic sampling plan was used; (b ) the percentage of the sample approached that participated; and (c) the number of participants who selected themselves into the sample. Describe the settings and locations in which the data were collected as well as any agreements and payments made to participants, agreements with the institutional review board, ethical standards met, and safety monitoring procedures.

Sample size, power, and precision. Along with the description of subjects, give the intended size of the sample and number of individuals meant to be in each condition, if separate conditions were used. State whether the achieved sample differed in known ways from the target population. Conclusions and interpretations should not go beyond what the sample would warrant.

State how this intended sample size was determined (e.g., analysis of power or pre­ cision) . If interim analysis and stopping rules were used to modify the desired sample size, describe the methodology and results.

When applying inferential statistics, take seriously the statistical power considera­ tions associated with the tests of hypotheses. Such considerations relate to the likeli­ hood of correctly rejecting the tested hypotheses, given a particular alpha level, effect size, and sample size. In that regard, routinely provide evidence that the study has suf­ ficient power to detect effects of substantive interest. Be similarly careful in discussing the role played by sample size in cases in which not rejecting the null hypothesis is desirable (i.e., when one wishes to argue that there are no differences) , when testing various assumptions underlying the statistical model adopted (e.g., normality, homo­ geneity of variance, homogeneity of regression) , and in model fitting.

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Alternatively, use calculations based on a chosen target precision (confidence inter­ val width) to determine sample sizes. Use the resulting confidence intervals to justify conclusions concerning effect sizes (e.g., that some effect is negligibly small ) .

Measures and covariates. Include in the Method section information that provides def­ initions of all primary and secondary outcome measures and covariates, including measures collected but not included in this report. Describe the methods used to col­ lect data (e.g., written questionnaires, interviews, observations) as well as methods used to enhance the quality of the measurements (e.g., the training and reliability of assessors or the use of multiple observations) . Provide information on instruments used, including their psychometric and biometric properties and evidence of cultural validity.

Research design. Specify the research design in the Method section. Were subjects placed into conditions that were manipulated, or were they observed naturalistically? If multiple conditions were created, how were participants assigned to conditions, through random assignment or some other selection mechanism? Was the study con­ ducted as a between-subjects or a within-subject design?

Different research designs have different reporting needs associated with them. Information that should be reported for all studies that involve experimental manip­ ulations or interventions is summarized in Table 2 of the Appendix, Module A: Reporting Standards for Studies With an Experimental Manipulation or Intervention ( in Addition to Material Presented in Table 1 ) and Table 3 of the Appendix, Reporting Standards for Studies Using Random and Nonrandom Assignment of Participants to Experimental Groups. When reporting studies that are not of the manipulation or intervention variety (e.g. , observational, natural history studies) , provide sufficient description of the study procedures to allow the reader to fully comprehend the complexity of the study and to be prepared to conduct a near repli­ cation of the study (see APA Publications and Communications Board Working Group on Journal Article Reporting Standards, 2008 , for a discussion of the emer­ gence of these standards) .

Experimental manipulations o r interventions. If interventions or experimental manipu­ lations were used in the study, describe their specific content. Include the details of the interventions or manipulations intended for each study condition, including control groups (if any), and describe how and when interventions (experimental manipula­ tions) were actually administered.

The description of manipulations or interventions should include several elements. Carefully describe the content of the intervention or specific experimental manipula­ tions. Often, this will involve presenting a brief summary of instructions given to par­ ticipants. If the instructions are unusual or compose the experimental manipulation, you may present them verbatim in an appendix or in an online supplemental archive. If the text is brief, you may present it in the body of the paper if it does not interfere with the readability of the report.

Describe the methods of manipulation and data acquisition. If a mechanical appara­ tus was used to present stimulus materials or collect data, include in the description of procedures the apparatus model number and manufacturer (when important, as in neu­ roimaging studies), its key settings or parameters (e.g., pulse settings), and its resolution (e.g., regarding stimulus delivery, recording precision) . As with the description of the

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intervention or experimental manipulation, this material may be presented in the body of the paper, in an appendix, in an online supplemental archive, or as appropriate.

When relevant-such as, for example, in the delivery of clinical and educational interventions-the procedures should also contain a description of who delivered the intervention, including their level of professional training and their level of training in the specific intervention. Present the number of deliverers along with the mean, standard deviation, and range of number of individuals or units treated by each deliverer.

Provide information about (a) the setting where the intervention or manipulation was delivered, (b) the quantity and duration of exposure to the intervention or manipulation (i.e., how many sessions, episodes, or events were intended to be delivered and how long they were intended to last), (c) the time span taken for the delivery of the intervention or manipulation to each unit (e.g., would the manipulation delivery be complete in one ses­ sion, or if participants returned for multiple sessions, how much time passed between the first and last session? ) , and (d) activities or incentives used to increase compliance.

When an instrument is translated into a language other than the language in which it was developed, describe the specific method of translation (e.g., back-translation, in which a text is translated into another language and then back into the first to ensure that it is equivalent enough that results can be compared) .

Provide a description of how participants were grouped during data acquisition (i.e., was the manipulation or intervention administered individual by individual, in small groups, or in intact groupings such as classrooms? ) . Describe the smallest unit (e.g., indi­ viduals, work groups, classes) that was analyzed to assess effects. If the unit used for sta­ tistical analysis differed from the unit used to deliver the intervention or manipulation (i .e., was different from the unit of randomization), describe the analytic method used to account for this (e.g., adjusting the standard error estimates or using multilevel analysis) .

2 .07 Results

In the Results section, summarize the collected data and the analysis performed on those data relevant to the discourse that is to follow. Report the data in sufficient detail to justify your conclusions. Mention all relevant results, including those that run counter to expectation; be sure to include small effect sizes (or statistically nonsignifi­ cant findings) when theory predicts large (or statistically significant) ones. Do not hide uncomfortable results by omission. Do not include individual scores or raw data, with the exception, for example, of single-case designs or illustrative examples. In the spirit of data sharing (encouraged by APA and other professional associations and some­ times required by funding agencies ) , raw data, including study characteristics and indi­ vidual effect sizes used in a meta-analysis, can be made available on supplemental online archives. See section 2 . 13 for a detailed discussion of the use of supplemental online archives. Discussing the implications of the results should be reserved for presen­ tation in the Discussion section.

Recruitment. Provide dates defining the periods of recruitment and follow-up and the primary sources of the potential subjects, where appropriate. If these dates differ by group, provide the values for each group.

Statistics and data analysis. Analysis of data and the reporting of the results of those analyses are fundamental aspects of the conduct of research. Accurate, unbiased, com-

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plete, and insightful reporting of the analytic treatment of data (be it quantitative or qualitative) must be a component of all research reports . Researchers in the field of psychology use numerous approaches to the analysis of data, and no one approach is uniformly preferred as long as the method is appropriate to the research questions being asked and the nature of the data collected. The methods used must support their analytic burdens, including robustness to violations of the assumptions that underlie them, and they must provide clear, unequivocal insights into the data.

Historically, researchers in psychology have relied heavily on null hypothesis sta­ tistical significance testing (NHST) as a starting point for many (but not all) of its ana­ lytic approaches. APA stresses that NHST is but a starting point and that additional reporting elements such as effect sizes, confidence intervals, and extensive description are needed to convey the most complete meaning of the results . The degree to which any journal emphasizes (or de-emphasizes) NHST is a decision of the individual edi­ tor. However, complete reporting of all tested hypotheses and estimates of appropriate effect sizes and confidence intervals are the minimum expectations for all APA jour­ nals.2 The research scientist is always responsible for the accurate and responsible reporting of the results of research studies.

Assume that your reader has a professional knowledge of statistical methods. Do not review basic concepts and procedures or provide citations for the most commonly used statistical procedures. If, however, there is any question about the appropriateness of a particular statistical procedure, justify its use by clearly stating the evidence that exists for the robustness of the procedure as applied.

Similarly, missing data can have a detrimental effect on the legitimacy of the infer­ ences drawn by statistical tests . For this reason, it is critical that the frequency or per­ centages of missing data be reported along with any empirical evidence and/or theoret­ ical arguments for the causes of data that are missing. For example, data might be described as missing completely at random (as when values of the missing variable are not related to the probability that they are missing or to the value of any other vari­ able in the data set) ; missing at random (as when the probability of missing a value on a variable is not related to the missing value itself but may be related to other com­ pletely observed variables in the data set); or not missing at random (as when the prob­ ability of observing a given value for a variable is related to the missing value itself) . It is also important to describe the methods for addressing missing data, if any were used (e.g., multiple imputation) .

When reporting the results of inferential statistical tests o r when providing esti­ mates of parameters or effect sizes, include sufficient information to help the reader fully understand the analyses conducted and possible alternative explanations for the outcomes of those analyses. Because each analytic technique depends on different aspects of the data and assumptions, it is impossible to specify what constitutes a "suf­ ficient set of statistics " for every analysis. However, such a set usually includes at least the following: the per-cell sample sizes; the observed cell means (or frequencies of cases in each category for a categorical variable); and the cell standard deviations, or the pooled within-cell variance. In the case of multivariable analytic systems, such as mul-

2 Issues dealing with the controversy over the use of NHST and its alternatives are complex and outside the scope of a publication manual. For those interested in this controversy, a discussion of these and related issues can be found in the article by Wilkinson and the Task Force on Statistical Inference ( 1 999); Harlow, Mulaik, and Steiger's ( 1997) What If There Were No Significance Tests? Kline's (2004) Beyond Significance Testing: Reforming Data Analysis Methods in Behavioral Research; and the article by Jones and Tukey (2000) .

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tivariate analyses of variance, regression analyses, structural equation modeling analyses, and hierarchical linear modeling, the associated means, sample sizes, and variance-covariance (or correlation) matrix or matrices often represent a sufficient set of statistics. At times, the amount of information that constitutes a sufficient set of sta­ tistics can be extensive; when this is the case, this information could be supplied in a supplementary data set or appendix (see section 2. 1 3 ) . For analyses based on very small samples ( including single-case investigations) , consider providing the complete set of raw data in a table or figure. Your work will more easily become a part of the cumulative knowledge of the field if you include enough statistical information to allow its inclusion in future meta-analyses.

For inferential statistical tests (e.g., t, F, and X2 tests ) , include the obtained magni­ tude or value of the test statistic, the degrees of freedom, the probability of obtaining a value as extreme as or more extreme than the one obtained (the exact p value) , and the size and direction of the effect. When point estimates (e.g., sample means or regres­ sion coefficients) are provided, always include an associated measure of variability (precision) , with an indication of the specific measure used (e.g., the standard error) .

The inclusion o f confidence intervals (for estimates of parameters, for functions of parameters such as differences in means, and for effect sizes) can be an extremely effec­ tive way of reporting results . Because confidence intervals combine information on location and precision and can often be directly used to infer significance levels, they are, in general, the best reporting strategy. The use of confidence intervals is therefore strongly recommended. As a rule, it is best to use a single confidence level, specified on an a priori basis (e.g., a 95% or 99% confidence interval) , throughout the manuscript. Wherever possible, base discussion and interpretation of results on point and interval estimates.

For the reader to appreciate the magnitude or importance of a study's findings, it is almost always necessary to include some measure of effect size in the Results sec­ tion.3 Whenever possible, provide a confidence interval for each effect size reported to indicate the precision of estimation of the effect size. Effect sizes may be expressed in the original units (e.g., the mean number of questions answered correctly; kg/month for a regression slope) and are often most easily understood when reported in original units . It can often be valuable to report an effect size not only in original units but also in some standardized or units-free unit (e.g., as a Cohen's d value) or a standardized regression weight. Multiple degree-of-freedom effect-size indicators are often less use­ ful than effect-size indicators that decompose multiple degree-of-freedom tests into meaningful one degree-of-freedom effects-particularly when the latter are the results that inform the discussion. The general principle to be followed, however, is to provide the reader with enough information to assess the magnitude of the observed effect.

Anci l lary analyses. Report any other analyses performed, including subgroup analyses and adjusted analyses, indicating those that were prespecified and those that were exploratory (though not necessarily in the level of detail of primary analyses) . Consider putting the detailed results of these analyses on the supplemental online archive. Discuss the implications, if any, of the ancillary analyses for statistical error rates.

Participant flow. For experimental and quasi-experimental designs, there must be a description of the flow of participants (human, animal, or units such as classrooms or

3 Grissom and Kim (2005) provide a comprehensive discussion of effect sizes.

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hospital wards) through the study. Present the total number of units recruited into the study and the number of participants assigned to each group. Provide the number of participants who did not complete the experiment or crossed over to other conditions and explain why. Note the number of participants used in the primary analyses. (This number might differ from the number who completed the study because participants might not show up for or complete the final measurement. ) The flowchart in the Appendix (Figure 1 ) provides a useful device for displaying the flow of participants through each stage of a study (see also Figures 5 .3 and 5 .4, pp. 1 54-155 ) .

Intervention or manipulation fidel ity. I f interventions or experimental manipulations were used, provide evidence on whether they were delivered as intended. In basic experimental research, this might be the results of checks on the manipulation. In applied research, this might be, for example, records and observations of intervention delivery sessions and attendance records.

Basel ine data. Be sure that baseline demographic and/or clinical characteristics of each group are provided.

Statistics and data analysis. In studies reporting the results of experimental manipula­ tions or interventions, clarify whether the analysis was by intent-to-treat. That is, were all participants assigned to conditions included in the data analysis regardless of whether they actually received the intervention, or were only participants who com­ pleted the intervention satisfactorily included? Give a rationale for the choice.

Adverse events. If interventions were studied, detail all important adverse events (events with serious consequences) and/or side effects in each intervention group.

2.08 Discussion

After presenting the results, you are in a position to evaluate and interpret their impli­ cations, especially with respect to your original hypotheses. Here you will examine, interpret, and qualify the results and draw inferences and conclusions from them. Emphasize any theoretical or practical consequences of the results. (When the discus­ sion is relatively brief and straightforward, some authors prefer to combine it with the Results section, creating a section called Results and Discussion. )

Open the Discussion section with a clear statement of the support or nonsupport for your original hypotheses, distinguished by primary and secondary hypotheses. If hypotheses were not supported, offer post hoc explanations. Similarities and differ­ ences between your results and the work of others should be used to contextualize, confirm, and clarify your conclusions. Do not simply reformulate and repeat points already made; each new statement should contribute to your interpretation and to the reader's understanding of the problem.

Your interpretation of the results should take into account (a) sources of potential bias and other threats to internal validity, (b) the imprecision of measures, (c) the over­ all number of tests or overlap among tests, (d) the effect sizes observed, and (e) other limitations or weaknesses of the study. If an intervention is involved, discuss whether it was successful and the mechanism by which it was intended to work (causal path­ ways) and/or alternative mechanisms. Also, discuss barriers to implementing the inter­ vention or manipulation as well as the fidelity with which the intervention or manip-

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ulation was implemented in the study, that is, any differences between the manipula­ tion as planned and as implemented.

Acknowledge the limitations of your research, and address alternative explana­ tions of the results. Discuss the generalizability, or external validity, of the findings. This critical analysis should take into account differences between the target popula­ tion and the accessed sample. For interventions, discuss characteristics that make them more or less applicable to circumstances not included in the study, how and what out­ comes were measured (relative to other measures that might have been used) , the length of time to measurement (between the end of the intervention and the measure­ ment of outcomes), incentives, compliance rates, and specific settings involved in the study as well as other contextual issues.

End the Discussion section with a reasoned and justifiable commentary on the importance of your findings. This concluding section may be brief or extensive provid­ ed that it is tightly reasoned, self-contained, and not overstated. In this section, you might briefly return to a discussion of why the problem is important (as stated in the introduction); what larger issues, those that transcend the particulars of the subfield, might hinge on the findings; and what propositions are confirmed or disconfirmed by the extrapolation of these findings to such overarching issues.

You may also consider the following issues:

l1li What is the theoretical, clinical, or practical significance of the outcomes, and what is the basis for these interpretations? If the findings are valid and replicable, what real-life psychological phenomena might be explained or modeled by the results ? Are applications warranted on the basis of this research?

IIil What problems remain unresolved or arise anew because of these findings ?

The responses to these questions are the core of the contribution of your study and justify why readers both inside and outside your own specialty should attend to the findings. Your readers should receive- clear, unambiguous, and direct answers.

2.09 Multiple Experiments

If you are presenting several studies in one manuscript, make the rationale, logic, and method of each study clear to the reader. If appropriate, include for each study a short discussion of the results, or combine the discussion with the description of results (e.g., Results and Discussion). Always include a comprehensive general discussion of all the work after the last study. Report only conceptually linked studies in a single paper.

The arrangement of sections reflects the structure previously described. For exam­ ple, label a series of experiments Experiment 1, Experiment 2, and so forth. They organize the subsections and make referring to a specific experiment convenient for the reader. The Method and Results sections (and the Discussion section, if a short discus­ sion accompanies each study) appear under each study heading. (Refer to Figure 2.2, pp. 54-56, for the form of a two-experiment paper. )

2 . 1 0 Meta-Analyses

The same factors that have led to proposals for reporting standards for manuscripts that report new data collections have led to similar efforts to establish standards for report­ ing the methods and results of meta-analyses. Guidelines for reporting research synthe-

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ses and meta-analyses are in the Appendix (Table 4, Meta-Analysis Reporting Standards [MARS] : Information Recommended for Inclusion in Manuscripts Reporting Meta­ Analyses) . In the guidelines, it is assumed that the research synthesis being reported used quantitative procedures to combine the results of studies. However, many of the guide­ lines (e.g., regarding introductory material and literature searching procedures) could apply to a research synthesis even if meta-analytic procedures were not carried out. Because this type of research is more specialized, we do not detail each item. The terms and issues should be familiar to researchers undertaking a meta-analysis and are described in numerous texts.

Note that easy access to electronic storage of information means that all of the ele­ ments listed in the MARS guidelines need not appear in printed journal articles. The online supplemental archives of journals can be used to store supplemental materials associated with the articles that appear in print. This supplemental material might include, for example, the list of citations to the research included in a meta-analysis and the table giving descriptive information for each included study, especially when the number of included studies is large. If the number of articles contributing studies to the meta-analysis is relatively small (e.g., about 50 or fewer), they should appear in the ref­ erence list with an asterisk included to identify them. If the number of articles in the meta-analysis exceeds 50, then the references to the articles should be placed in a list and in a supplemental online archive. If an article is mentioned in the text of a meta­ analytic article and the results reported in that article are included in the meta-analysis, the article should be cited both in the reference list and in the supplemental materials.

2. 1 1 References

References acknowledge the work of previous scholars and provide a reliable way to locate it. References are used to document statements made about the literature, just as data in the manuscript support interpretations and conclusions. The references cited in the manuscript do not need to be exhaustive but should be sufficient to support the need for your research and to ensure that readers can place it in the context of previ­ ous research and theorizing.

The standard procedures for citation ensure that references are accurate, complete, and useful to investigators and readers. For detailed guidance on citing sources and preparing the reference list, consult Chapters 6 and 7.

Start the reference list on a new page. The word References should appear in upper­ case and lowercase letters, centered. Double-space all reference entries. APA publishes references in a hanging indent format, meaning that the first line of each reference is set flush left and subsequent lines are indented.

2.12 Footnotes

Footnotes are used to provide additional content or to acknowledge copyright permis­ sion status.

Content footnotes. Content footnotes supplement or amplify substantive information in the text; they should not include complicated, irrelevant, or nonessential information. Because they can be distracting to readers, such footnotes should be included only if they strengthen the discussion. A content footnote should convey just one idea; if you find yourself creating paragraphs or displaying equations as you are writing a footnote,

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then the main text or an appendix probably would be a more suitable place to present your information. Another alternative is to indicate in a short footnote that the materi­ al is available online as supplemental material. In most cases, an author integrates an article best by presenting important information in the text, not in a footnote.

Copyright permission. Copyright permission footnotes acknowledge the source of lengthy quotations, scale and test items, and figures and tables that have been reprint­ ed or adapted. Authors must obtain permission to reproduce or adapt material from a copyrighted source. (See Chapter 8 for a discussion of what authors should know about permissions and copyright. )

A numbered footnote is generally used to provide source material for long quota­ tions. For tables, the source material is provided in a table note (see section 5 . 1 6 ) , and for figures, the source is credited at the end of the caption (see section 5 .23 ) . Use the wording below for copyright permission footnotes.

Type of source Copyright permission footnote

Journal From [or The data in column 1 are from] "Title of Article, " by A. N . Author and C. O. Author, year, TItle of Journal, Volume, p. xx. Copyright [year] by the Name of Copyright Holder. Reprinted [or adapted] with permission .

Book From [or The data in col umn 1 a re from] TItle of Book (p . xxx), by A. N. Author and C. O. Author, year, Place of Publ ication : Pub l isher. Copyright [year] by the Name of Copyright Holder. Repri nted [o r adapted] with perm iss ion .

Number all footnotes consecutively in the order in which they appear in the man­ uscript with superscript Arabic numerals. Footnote numbers should be superscripted, like this, l following any punctuation mark except a dash. A footnote number that appears with a dash-like this2-always precedes the dash. (The number falls inside a closing parenthesis if it applies only to matter within the parentheses, like this.3) Do not place footnote numbers in text headings. Subsequent references to a footnote are by parenthetical note:

the same resu lts (see Footnote 3)

When using the footnote function in your word-processing program, place each content or copyright permission footnote at the bottom of the page on which it is dis­ cussed. Footnotes may alternatively be placed in consecutive order on a separate page after the references. Be sure that the number of the footnote corresponds with the appropriate text discussion.

2 . 1 3 Appendices and Supplemental Materials

Sometimes, material that supplements article content would be distracting or inappro­ priate in the body of the manuscript. Material of this type can often be included in an appendix or in a supplemental materials section-the former being an element of the print version of the article, the latter being an online supplemental archive that the publisher of the archival source maintains.

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Appendices. In general, an appendix is appropriate for materials that are relatively brief and that are easily presented in print format. Some examples of material suitable for an appendix are (a) a list of stimulus materials (e.g., those used in psycholinguistic research) , (b ) a detailed description of a complex piece of equipment, (c) a list of arti­ cles that provided the source data for a meta-analysis but are not directly referred to in any other way in an article, and (d) a detailed demographic description of subpop­ ulations in the study and other detailed and/or complex reporting items suggested in the reporting standards section of this chapter.

If your manuscript has only one appendix, label it Appendix; if your manuscript has more than one appendix, label each one with a capital letter (Appendix A, Appendix B, etc . ) in the order in which it is mentioned in the main text. Each appen­ dix must have a title. In the text, refer to appendices by their labels:

produced the same resu lts for both studies (see Appendices A and B for com­ plete proofs) .

Like the main text, an appendix may include headings and subheadings as well as tables, figures, and displayed equations. Number each appendix table and figure, and number displayed equations if necessary for later reference; precede the number with the letter of the appendix in which it is included (e.g., Table A 1 ) . In a sole appendix, which is not labeled with a letter, precede all tables, figures, and equation numbers with the letter A to distinguish them from those of the main text. All appendix tables and figures must be cited within the appendix and numbered in order of citation.

If one table constitutes an entire appendix, the centered appendix label and title serve in lieu of a table number and title. Generally, treat multiple tables as separate appendices. If multiple tables (but no text) are combined into one appendix, number the tables.

Begin each appendix on a separate page. Center the word Appendix and the iden­ tifying capital letters (A, B, etc., in the order in which they are mentioned in text) at the top of the page. Center the title of the appendix, and use uppercase and lowercase letters. Begin the text of the appendix flush left, followed by indented paragraphs.

Supplemental materials. Web-based, online supplemental archives tend to be more appropriate for material that is more useful when available as a direct download as well as materials that are not easily presented in standard print format. Some exam­ ples of materials suitable for inclusion in online supplemental archives are (a ) lengthy computer code, (b ) details of mathematical or computational models, (c) audio or video clips, (d) oversized tables, (e) detailed intervention protocols, ( f) primary or supplementary data sets, (g) expanded methodology sections, and (h) color figures. Because this content may be useful to the field, APA and many other publishers make it possible to provide them to a wide audience by posting them on the web, with a link to the published article. These files (like an appendix) then become part of the primary journal record and cannot be augmented, altered, or deleted.

Materials for inclusion in supplemental online archives should be submitted in for­ mats that will be widely accessible. The following multimedia formats are generally widely available to most users and are preferred:

II Text-ASCII, Word, PDF, HTML II Tables-Excel, Word, HTML, XHTML, XML II Audio and Video-A VI, MPG, Quicktime, RM, MP3, WAY

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Less widely used file formats, including TeX, LaTeX, any client- or server-side scripting (e.g., Java, CGI) , executable files, and software applications, are acceptable but may be of less use to the reader who does not have access to specialized programs. Many users refuse to deal with executable files or operate from systems that refuse to access them.

For APA journals, the link to online supplemental archives that appears in the pub­ lished article leads readers to a landing page that includes a bibliographic citation, a link to the published article, and a context statement and link for each supplemental material file (see an example of a sample landing page at www.apastyle.org) . Supplemental materials should include enough information to make their contents interpretable when accompanied by the published text. For more information on sup­ plemental materials, see Chapter 8 .

Most journals make supplemental materials subject t o peer review and require that they be submitted with the initial manuscript. Once accepted, the supplemental mate­ rials will be posted with no further editing or polishing.

Include an appendix or supplemental materials only if they help readers to under­ stand, evaluate, or replicate the study or theoretical argument being made. Be sure that all relevant ethical standards have been followed for appendices and supplemental materials, including copyright protection, accurate representation of data, and protec­ tion of human subjects (e.g., content of video clips if human images) .

Sample Papers

These sample papers illustrate three kinds of manuscripts: one-experiment (Figure 2 . 1 ) , two-experiment (Figure 2.2) , and meta-analysis (Figure 2.3 ) . The three manuscripts have been adapted for the Publication Manual from articles published in APA j ournals. The numbers referred to in the shaded boxes refer to numbered sections in the Publication Manual.

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Running head: EFfECTS OF AGE ON DETECTION OF EMOTION

... . Effects of Age on Detection of Emotional Infannation

Christina M. Leclerc and Elizabeth A. Kensinger

Boston College

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Ab$tract Age differences were examined in affective processing, in the context of a visual search task.

Young and older adults were faster to detect high arousal images compared with low arousal and

neutral items. Younger adults were faster to detect positive high arousal targets compared with

other categories. In contrast, older adults exhibited an overall detection advantage for emotional

images compared with neutral images. Together. these findings suggest that older adults do not

display valence-based effects on affective processing at relatively automatic stages.

Keywords: aging, attention, infonnation processing. emotion, visual search

Paper adapted from " Effects of Age on Detection of Emotional I nformation, " by C. M . Leclerc and E. A. Kensinger,

2008, Psychology and Aging, 23, pp. 209-2 1 5. Copyright 2008 by the American Psychologica l Association .

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Effects of Age on Detection of Emotional Information

• • • • " • • • • " .. Frequently, people encounter situations in their environment in which it is impossible to

attend to all available stimuli. It is therefore of great importance for one's attentional processes to

select only the most salient infonmtion in the environment to which one should attend. Previous

research has suggested that emotional information is privy to attentional selection in young

adults (e.g., Anderson, 2005; C.u�o &Lang, 2004; carrede, Hinojosa, Marin �Loeches, Mecado, &;tapia, 20d4�.NiIIlIIne�aYiina, & c8ivii; 2()()6)1o· 06,,1008 seN:c'; io evoluiio,;3iy·

approach rewarding situations and to avoid threat and danger (Davis & Whalen, 200\; Dolan

&' Y.Qi,ll"umier, 2003; Lang, Bradley, & Cuthbert, 1997; LeDoux, 1 995).

F�; ::::�;;:���::: ���: ��" �;;�;; iioaopresented participants with 3 x 3'fsiiar arrays with im���� ��������t}�four categories (snakes, spiders, flowers, mushrooms). In half !lie 0;.;,;;:: :Ii "nine images were from the same category, whereas in the remaining half of the arrays, eight images were from one category and one image was from a different category (e.g.,

eight flowers and one snake). Participants were asked to indicate whether the matrix included a . . . . . . . . . . . . . discrepant stimulus. Results indicated that fear���;��i i;,,�g;,· ��r� .';;;� ·��;;kl� detected than

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Calvo & Lang, 2004; Carretie et aI., 2004; Juth, Lundqvist, Karlsson, & Ohman, 200�

Nummenmaaet aI., 2006).

"� From this research, it seems clear that younger adults show detection benefits for

.. • .a;;,using information in the environment. It is less clear whether these effects are preserved

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across the adult life span. The focus of the current research is on determining the extent to which

aging influences the early, relatively automatic detection of emotional information.

Regions of the brain thought to be important for emotional detection remain relatively

intact with aging (reviewed by Chow & Cummings, 2000). Thus, it is plausible that the detection

of emotional information remains relatively stable as adults age. However, despite the

preservation of emotion-processing regions with age (or perhaps because of the contrast between

the preservation of these regions and age-related declines in cognitive-processing regions; Good et aI., 2001; Hedden & Gabrieli, 2004; Ohnishi, Matsuda, Tabira,Asada, & Uno, 2001; Raz, 2000; West, 1996), recent behavioral research has revealed changes that occur with aging in the

. ;;��i;ti��";d p;';';'��;i�g �r;��ii;�: Accorir.itg"to· � socioemotional selectivity theory (Carstensen, 1 992), with aging, time is perceived as increasingly limited, and as a result, emotion

regulation becomes a primary goal (Carstensen, Isaacowitz, & Charles, 1999). According to

socioemotional selectivity theory, age is associated with an increased motivation to derive

emotional meaning from life and a simultaneous decreasing motivation to expand one's

knowledge base. As a consequence of these motivational shifts, emotional aspects of the

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To maintain positive affect in the face of negative age-related change (e.g., limited

remaining, physical and cognitive decline), older adults may adopt new cognitive

such strategy, discussed recently, is the positivity effect (Carstensen & 'm.c"�_ •. uv.,,, in which older adults spend proportionately more time processing positive

time processing negative emotional material. Studies examiniVl!'rh� influence of emotion on .. memory (Charles, Mather, & Carstensen, 200l Kenne�:�ather, & Carstensen, 2004) have

. .. found that compared with younger adults, olcje,;:dults recall proportionally more positive information and proportionally less !ISlItiti�� information. Similar results have heen found when A·· examining eye-tracking patterns: 011.;; .au!" 1o;,IcCit·oit" posiiiYi,.rmages longer itUiD younger· · · . adults did, even when no age differences were observed in looking time for negative stimuli

(Isaacowitz, Wadlinger, Goren, & Wilson, 2006). However, this positivity effect has not gone

uncontested; some researchers have found evidence inconsistent with the positivity effect (e.g.,

Grithn, Smith, & Baltes, 2005; Kensinger, Brierley, Medford, Growdon, & Corkin, 2002). Based on this previously discussed research, three competing hypotheses exist to explain

age differences in emotional processing associated with the normal agiog process. First,

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slower to detect information than young adults (consistent with Hahn, Carlson, Singer, .;.: . ..

& Gronlund, 2006; Mather & Knight, 2006); the critical question was whether the two age groups would show similar or divergent facilitation effects with regard to the effects of emotion

on item detection. On the basis of the existing literature, the first two previously discussed

hypotheses seemed to he more plausible than the third alternative. This is because there is reason

to think that the positivity effect may he operating only at later stages of processing (e.g.,

:;';';';�i�: �i�bc;';'ilte. and emotion regulation processes) rather than at the earlier stages of processing involved in the rapid detection of information (see Mather & Knight, 2005, for

• • �discussion). Thus, the first two hypotheses, that emotional information maintains its importance

across the life span or that emotional information in general takes on greater importance with

age, seemed particularly applicable to early stages of emotional processing.

Indeed, a couple of prior studies have provided evidence for intact early processing of

emotional facial expressions with aging. Mather and Knight (2006)exarnined young and older

adults' abilities to detect happy, sad, angry, or neutral faces presented in a complex visual array.

c ·M�ih';; aNltKnight found that like younger adults, older adults detected threatening faces more quickly than they detected other types of emotional stimuli. Similarly, Hahn et a1. (2006)a1so found no age differences in efficiency of search time when angry faces were presented in an

array of neutral faces, compared with happy faces in neutral face displays. When angry faces, ....: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . compared with positive and neutral faces, served as nontarget distractors in the visual search

arrays. however, older adults were more efficient in searching, compared with younger adults,

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negative stimuli were not of equivalent arousal levels (fearful faces typically are more arousing

than happy faces; Hansen & Hansen, 1988). Given that arousal is thought to be a key factor in

modulating the attentional focus effect (Hansen & Hansen, 198a Pratto & John, 1991; Reimann

& McNally, 1995), to more clearly understand emotional processing in the context of aging, it is

necessary to include both positive and negative emotional items with equal levels of arousal.

In the current research, therefore, we compared young and older adults' detection of four

categories of emotional infonnation (positive high arousal, positive low arousal, negative high

arousal, and negative low arousal) with their detection of neutral information. The positiv�. ljIId·

. ' negative stimuli were carefully matched on arousal level, and the categories of Ijigll;';;d low

. . . . arousal were closely matched on valence to assure that the factors of.\Ollle�;'" (positive, negative) . ' . ' and arousal (high, low) could be investigated independej1l.l,.;f one another. Participants were

. . . . presented with a visual search task includin&.inlAg�s from these different categories (e.g., snakes,

A'" cars, teapots). For half of the multi.image arrays, all of the images were of the same item, and for the remaining half of the arrays, a

categories. We reasoned that if

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. . . . . f�;�: :::;�� ;:e�s than shown by the young adults (resulting in an interaction between age and arousal).

"' . . . . . . . . . . Method Younger adults (14 women, 10 men, M",, ; 19.5 years, age range: 18-22 years) were

recruited with t1yers posted on the Boston College campus. Older adults ( 15 women, nine men, ....

Moge; 76.1 years, age l1lDge: 6g...84 years) were recruited through the Harvard Cooperative on : � . / Aging for demographics and test scores). I Participants were compensated $10 per

: hour for their There were 30 additional participants, recruited in the same way as

u."m"."� .. u,uv" , who provided pilot rating values: five young and five old participants for the of items within individual categories (Le., images depicting cats), and 1 0 young and

participants for the assignment of images within valence and arousal categories. All

were asked to bring corrective eyewear if needed, resulting in no�al or corrected

to nannal vision for all participants.

Materials and Procedure

The visual search task was adapted from Ohman et al. (200 I ). There were 10 different types of items (two each of five Valence x Arousal categories: positive high arousal, positive low

arousal, neutral, negative low arousal, negative high arousal), each containing nine individual

exemplars that were used to construct 3 x 3 stimulus matrices. A total of 90 images were used,

each appearing as a target and as a member of a distracting array. A total of 360 matrices were

presented to each participant; half contained a target item (Le., eight items of one type and one

target item of another type) and half did not (Le., all nine images of the same type). Within the

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matrix. Within the 1 80 target trials, each of the five emotion categories (e.g., positive high

arousal, neutral, etc.) was represented in 36 trials. Further, within each of the 36 trials for each

emotion category, nine trials were created for each of the combinations with the remaining four

other emotion categories (e.g., nine trials with eight positive high arousal items and one neutral

item). Location of the target was randomly varied such that no target within an emotion category

was presented in the same location in arrays of more than one other emotion category (i.e., a

negative high arousal target appeared in a different location when presented with positive high

arousal array images than when presented with neutral array images).

The items within each category of grayscale images shared the same verbal label (e.g.-:'-· · · · · ·

· · ·

mushroom, snake), and the items were selected from online databases and photo clipart . , , • • •

packages. Each image depicted a photo of the actual object. Ten ��i �;;;:��t:' :::: '��ed to write down the name corresponding to each object; any object that did not consistently generate

the intended response was eliminated from the set. For the remaining images, an additional 20

pilot participants rated the emotional valence and arousal of the objects and assessed the degree

of visual similarity among objects within a set (i.e., how similar the mushrooms were to one

another) and between objects across sets (Le. , how similar the mushrooms were to the snakes).

Valence and arousal ratings. Valence and arousal were judged on 7-point scales (1 =

• • • negatMiv!Jlence.'or low arousal and 7 = positive valence or high arousal). Negative objects received mean valence ratings of 2.5 or lower, neutral objects received mean valence ratings of

3.5 to 4.5, and positive objects received mean valence ratings of 5.5 or higher. High-arousal

objects received mean arousal ratings greater than 5, and low-arousal objects (including all

neutral stimuli) received mean arousal ratings of less than 4. We selected categories for which

both young and older adults agreed on the valence and arousal classifications, and stimuli were

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mushrooms and particular cats so that the mushrooms were as similar to one another as were the

cats (Le., within.group similarity was held constant across the categories). Our object selection

also assured that the categories differed from one another to a similar degree (e.g. , that the

mushrooms were as similar to the snakes as the cats were similar to the snakes).

Procedure

Each trial began with a white fixation cross presented on a black screen for 1 ,000 ms; the

matrix was then presented, and it remained on the screen until a participant response was

recorded. Participants were instructed to respond as quickly as possible with a button marked yes

if there was a target present, or a button marked no if no target was present. Response latencies

and accuracy for each trial were automatically recorded with E-Prime (Version 1 .2) experimental

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software. Before beginning the actual task, participants perfonned 20 practice trials to assure

compliance with the task instructions.

ReSUlts .... • • • • . . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Analyses focus o n participants' RTs to the 120 trials i n which a target was present and

was from a different emotional category from the elistractor (e.g., RTs were not included for

arrays containing eight images of a cat and one image of a butterfly because cats and butterflies

are both positive low-arousal items). RTs were analyzed for 24 trials of each target emotion

category. RTs for error trials were excluded (less than 5%1i�i��;��;;;) �;·;�;�·Rt�·th;t · · · · ·

. . . were tJ�J:) from each participant 's mean (approximately 1 .5% of responses). Median RTs were then calculated for each of the five emotional target categories, collapsing across array type (see

raw RT values for each of the two age groups). This allowed us to examine, for

whether participants were faster to detect images of snakes than images of mushrooms,

regardless of the type of array in which they were presented. Because our main interest was in

examining the effects of valence and arousal on participants' target detection times, we created

scores for each emotional target category that controlled for the participant's RTs to detect

neutral targets (e.g., subtracting the RT to detect neutral targets from the RT to detect positive

high arousal targets). These difference scores were then examined with a 2 x 2 x 2 (Age [young, .'

older] x Valence [positive, negative] x Arousal [high, low]) analysis of variance (ANOV �; .• �;: ANOVA revealed only a significant main effect of arousal, F( l , 46) = S.4I,p = .��= . 16, with larger differences between neutral and high-arousal images (M = 1 37) than between �;u!t.� and low-arousal images (M = 93; i.e., high-arousal items processed more quickly across both age groups compared with low-arousal items; I). There was no significant main effect for

valence and arousal. It is critical that the analysis

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revealed only a main effect o f age but no interactions with age. Thus, the arousal-mediated

effects on detection time appeared stable in young and older adults.

The results described above suggested that there was no influence of age on the

influences of emotion. To further test the validity of this hypothesis, we submitted the RTs to the

five categories of targets to a 2 x 5 (Age [young, old] x Target Category [positive high arousal,

positive low arousal, neutral, negative low arousal, negative high arousalD repeated-measures • • • • • • • • ; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...... 2 ANOVA. Both the age group-; 1"(1. 46) = 540.32. P < .001. 1lP = .94 and the ", rigel ,calf'gO!"y.

F(4, 1 84) = 8.98. p < .001 , fl; = ;16.�neff�is"�;;.;;i;.rlfi�.:.;�·;::;I; ·�·�:�; T!Il"get Category interaction. F (4, 1 84) = 3.59, P = .008, flp2 = .07. This interaction appeared to reflect the fact that for the younger adults, positive high-arousal targets were detected faster than

targets from all other categories, IS(23) < -I .90, p < .00 1 , with no other target categories

differing significantly from one another (although there were trends for negative high-arousal

and negative low-arousal targets to he detected more rapidly than neutral targets; p < . 1 2). For older adults. all emotional categories of targets were detected more rapidly than were neutral

targets. 18(23) > 2.56, p < .0 1 7. and RTs to the different emotion categories of targets did not

differ significantly from one another. Thus, these results provided some evidence that older

adults may show a broader advantage for detection of any type of emotional information,

whereas young adults' benefit may he more narrowly restricted to only certain categories of

emotional information. .. . . . . . .

Dlscusslon

As outlined previously, there were three plausible alternatives for young and older adults'

performance on the visual search task: The two age groups could show a similar pattern of

enhanced detection of emotional information. older adults could show a greater advantage for

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emotional detection than young adults, or older adults could show a greater facilitation than

young adults only for the detection of positive information. The results lent some support

fll"St two alternatives, but no evidence was found to support the third alternative. In line with the fll"St alternative, no effects of age were found when the influence of

valence and arousal on target detection times was examined; both age groups showed only an

arousal effect. This result is consistent with prior studies that indicated that arousing information

can be detected rapidly and automatically by young adults (Anderson, Christoff, Panitz, De

Rosa, & Gabrieli, 2003; Ohman & Mineka, 2001) and that older adults, like younger adults,

continue to display a threat detection advantage when searching for negative facial targets in

arrays of positive and neutral distractors (Hahn et a1., 2006; Mather & Knight, 2(06). Given the

age-related enll8Dc:elIl�

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processing, given that no effects of valence were observed in older adults' detection speed. In the

present study, older adults were equally fast to detect positive and negative information,

consistent with prior research that indicated that older adults often attend equally to positive and

negative stimuli (RosIer et a1., 2(05). Although the pattern of results for the young adults has

differed across slU.mes;;:7jn the present study and in some past research, young adults have shown

facilibltecll detec1ion,iJfpo,,jtive information (e.g., Anderson, 2005; Calvo & Lang, 2004; Carretie

a1., 2005; Nummenmaa et a1., 2006), whereas in other studies, young adults

advantage for negative information (e.g., Armony & Dolan, 2002; Hansen &

Mogg, Bradley, de Bono, & Painter, 1997; Pratto & John, 1 991 ; Reimann &

1 995; Williams, Mathews, & MacLeod, 1996)-what is important to note is that the

adults detected both positive and negative stimuli at equal rates. This equivalent detection

positive and negative information provides evidence that older adults display an advantage for

the detection of emotional information that is not valence-specific.

Thus, although younger and older adults exhibited somewhat divergent patterns of

emotional detection on a task reliant on early, relatively automatic stages of processing, we

found no evidence of an age-related positivity effect. The lack of a positivity focus in the older

adults is in keeping with the proposal (e.g., Mather & Knight, 2(06) that the positivity effect does not arise through automatic attentional influences. Rather, when this effect is observed in

older adults, it is likely due to age-related changes in emotion regulation goals that operate at

later stages of processing (i.e., during consciously controlled processing), once information has

been attended to and once the emotional nature of the stimulus has been discerned.

Although we cannot conclusively say that the current task relies strictly on automatic

processes, there are two lines of evidence suggesting that the constroct examined in the current

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research examines relatively automatic processing. First, i n their previous work, Ohman e t al.

(200 1 ) compared RTs with both 2 x 2 and 3 x 3 arrays. No significant RT differences based on ' . . A:'� " the number o f images presented in the arrays were found. Second, in botbJ>hman et al;'s (2001)

study and the present stUdy, analyses were performed to examine the influence of target location on RT. Across both studies, and across both age groups in the current work, emotional targets

were detected more quickly than were neutral targets, regardless of their location. Together,

these findings suggest that task performance is dependent on relatively automatic detection

processes rather than on controlled search processes.

Although further work is required to gain a more complete understanding of the al!.e.-• • • • • • •

related changes in the early processing of emotional information, our findings1f;di��;; �at EFFECTS OF AGE ON DETECTION OF EMOTION

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Footnotes ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

influences of these variables on the pattern or magnitude of the results.

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WilIiarns, J. M. ,

2 These data were also analyzed with a 2 x 5 ANOVA to examine the effect of target

category when presented only in arrays containing neutral images, with the results remaining

qualitatively the same. More broadly, the effects of emotion on target detection were not

qualitatively impacted by the distractor category.

Wilson, B. A.,

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Table 2

Raw Resp

recorded i

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Table I

Participant Characteristics

Younger gmug Older grgUI! Measure M SD M SD F(I . 46) l! Years of education 13.92 1 .28 16.33 2.43 18.62 <.001 Beck Anxiety Inventory 9.39 5.34 6.25 6.06 3.54 .066 BADS-DEX 20.79 7.58 13.38 8.29 10.46 .002 STAI-State 45.79 4.44 47.08 3.48 1 .07 .306 STAI-Trait 45.64 4.50 45.58 3. 15 0.02 .963 Digit Symbol Substitution 49.62 7 . 18 3 1 .58 6.56 77.52 <.001 Generative naming 46.95 9.70 47. 17 12.98 .004 .95 1 Vocabulary 33.00 3.52 35.25 3.70 4.33 .043 Digit Span-Backward 8.81 2.09 8.25 2. 15 0.78 .383 Arithmetic 16. 14 2.75 14.96 3 . 1 1 1 .84 . 1 82 Mental Control 32.32 3.82 23.75 5 . 1 3 40.60 <.001 Self-Ordered Pointing 1 .73 2.53 9.25 9.40 13 . 18 .001 WCST �erseverative errOrs 0.36 0.66 1 .83 3.23 4.39 .042

Note. The Beck Anxiety Inventory is from Beck et al. ( 1988); the Behavioral Assessment of the

Dysexecutive Syndrome-Dysexecutive Questionnaire (BADS-DEX) is from Wilson et al.

( 1996); the Stare-Trait Anxiety Inventory (ST AI) measures are from Spielberger et al. ( 1970);

and the Digit Symbol Substitution. Digit Span-Backward. and Arithmetic Wechsler Adult

Intelligence Scale-Ill and Wechsler Memory Scale-Ill measures are from Wechsler ( 1997).

Generative naming scores represent the total number of words produced in 60 s each for letter

F. A. and S. The Vocabulary measure is from Shipley (1986); the Mental Control measure is

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from Wechsler (1987); the Self-Ordered Pointing measure was adapted from Petrides and Milner

(1 982); and the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task (WCST) measure is from ( 1976).

All values represent raw. nonstandardized scores.

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1111 Amusing . NO"arouslng I 300

1 250 Loa J 150 Q i 100

50

0 Younger Older

Age Grvup

Figure 1. Mean difference values (ms) representing detection speed for each target category

subtracted from the mean detection speed for neutral targets. No age differences were found in �e arousal-mediated effects on detection speed. Standard errors are represented in the figure by the

-41( . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . error bars attached to each column.

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INHIBITORY INFLUENCES ON ASYCHRONY 3

Inhibitory Influences on Asychrony as a Cue for Auditory Segregation

Auditory grouping involves the formation of auditory objects from the sound mixture

reaching the ears. The cues used to integrate or segregate these sounds and so form auditory

objects have been defined by several authors (e.g., Bregman, 1990; Darwin, 1997; Darwin &

Carlyon, 1 995) . The key acoustic cues for segregating concurrent acoustic elements are

differences in onset time (e.g., Dannenbring & Bregman, 1978; Rasch, 1978) and harmonic

relations (e.g., Brunstram & Roberts, 1998; Moore, Glasberg, & Peters, 1986). In an example of

the importance of onset time, Darwin ( I984a, 1984b) showed that increasing the level of a

harmonic near the first formant (FI ) frequency by adding a synchronous pure tone changes the

phonetic quality of a vowel. However, when the added tone began a few hundred milliseconds

before the vowel, it was essentially removed from the vowel percept. . . . [section continuesI. • General Method -0( • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Elem��ts 8f�m�irj��tstU�i�i{l.Ql

Overview - In the experiments reported here, we used a paradigm developed by Darwin to assess the

perceptual integration of additional energy in the FI region of a vowel through its effect on

phonetic quality (Darwin, 1 9840, 1 984b; Darwin & Sutherland, 1984) . . . . [section continuesI.

Stimuli

Amplitude and phase values for the vowel harmonics were obtained from the vocal-tract

transfer function using cascaded formant resonators (Klatt, 1 980). FI values varied in IO-Hz

steps from 360-550 Hz-except in Experiment 3, which used values from 350-540 Hz-to

produce a continuum of 20 tokens . . . . [section continuesI. Listeners

Paper adapted from " Inh ibitory I nfluences on Asychrony as a Cue for Auditory Segregation, " by S. D .

Holmes a n d B . Roberts, 2006, Journal o f Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 32, pp. 1 23 1 -1 242 . Copyright 2006 by the American Psychological Association .

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Listeners were volunteers recruited from the student population of the University of

Binningham and were paid for their participation. All listeners were native speakers of British

English who reponed normal hearing and had successfully completed a screening procedure

(described below). For each experiment, the data for 12 listeners are'1;esenied:.: :(siicii;� · continuesl.

Procedure

At the stan of each session, listeners took pan in a warm-up block. Depending on the

4

number of conditions in a particular experiment, the warm-up block consisted of one block of all

the experimental stimuli or every second or fourth FI step in that block. This gave between 85

and 100 randomized trials . . . . [section continuesl. Data Analysis

The data for each listener consisted of the number of /II responses out of \0 repetitions

for each nominal FI value in each condition. An estimate of the FI frequency at the phoneme

boundary was obtained by fitting a probit function (Finney, 1 97 1) to a listener 's identification

data for each condition. The phoneme boundary was defined as the mean of the probit function

(the 50% point) . . . . [section continuesl.

continuesl.

Method

" ". • • • • • • • • • • »Iil�perlin�iltl

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There were nine conditions: the three standard ones (vowel alone, incremented fourth,

and leading fourth) plus three captor conditions and their controls. A lead time of 240 ms was

used for the added 5OD-Hz .. 'tW�'; .. ..ls.����� .".o.�t!���!l: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Resulls and Discussion

5

Figure 4 shows the mean phoneme boundaries for all conditions and the restoration effect

for each captor type. The restoration effects are shown above the histogram bars both as a

boundary shift in henz and as a percentage of the difference in boundary position between the

incremented-fourth and leading-fourth conditions . . . . [section continuesl.

Experiment 2

This experiment considers the case where the added 5()()'Hz tone begins at the same time

as the vowel but continues after the vowel ends . . . . [section continuesl . Method

There were five conditions: two of the standard ones (vowel alone and incremented

fourth), a lagging-fourth condition (analogous to the leading-fourth condition used elsewhere),

. ��� � ;�;;;; ;���;ti�� ·':';d ;;; ���;;o'l: A i;g ·ti';';; �240 ms was used for the added 5OD-Hz tone . . . . [section continuesl

Resulls and Discussion

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1984; Roberts & Holmes, 2006). This experiment used a gap between captor offset and vowel onset to measure the decay time of the captor effect . . . [section continues).

Method

There were 17 conditions: the three standard ones (vowel aione, incremented fourth, and

leading fourth), five captor conditions and their controls, and four additional conditions

(described separately below). A lead time of 320 ms was used for the added 5OQ.Hz tone. The

captor conditions were created by adding a l . I-kHz pure-tone captor, of various durations, to

each member of the leading-fourth continuum . . . . [section continues).

Results

Figure 6 shows the JI),e8!!1h.;��.;;� b����j.:ri;; f�; ;ii ���di���:� ;.:�.:::.� �;;�;; significant effect of condition on the phoneme boundary vaiues, F(l 6, 176) = 39. IO,p < .001 .

Incrementing the level o f the fourth harmonic lowered the phoneme boundary relative to the

vowel-alone condition (by 58 Hz, p < .001), which indicates that the extra energy was integrated

into the vowel percept. . . . [section continues].

Discussion

The results of this experiment show that the effect of the captor disappears somewhere

between 80 and 160 ms after captor offset. This indicates that the captor effect takes quite a long

time to decay away relative to the time constants typically found for cells in the CN using

physiological measures (e.g., Needham & Paolini, 2003) . . . . [section continues]. Summary and Concluding Discussion

Darwin and Sutherland ( 1984)first demonstrated that accompanying the leading portion

of additional energy in the FI region of a vowel with a captor tone partly reversed the effect of

the onset asynchrony on perceived vowel quality. This finding was attributed to the formation of 7

of their common

onset time and harmonic relationship, leaving the remainder of the extra energy to integrate into

the vowel percept. . . . [section continues).

[Follow the form of the one-experiment sample paper to type references, the author note, footnotes, tables, and figure captions.)

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THE SLEEPER EFFECT IN PERSUASION 3

The Sleeper Effect in Persuasion:

A Meta-Analytic Review

Persuasive messages are often accompanied by information that induces suspicions of

invalidity. For instance, recipients of communications about a political candidate may discount a

message coming from a representative of the opponent party because they do not perceive the

source of the message as credible (e.g., Lariscy & Tinkham, 1 999). Because the source of the

political message serves as a discounting cue and temporarily decreases the impact of the

message, recipients may not be persuaded by the advocacy immediately after they receive the

communication. Over time, however, recipients of an otherwise influential message may recall

the message but not the noncredible source and thus become more persuaded by the message at . 1(��JflDil�llii!ti;«��1 that time than they were immediately following the communication. The term sleeper effeci�" " " "

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memory of the retention, attitude and decay, and persuasion and decay . Because researchers often use the terms

opinion and belief, instead of attitude, we conducted searches using these substitute terms as

well. Sample of Studies

Second, . . . [section continues].

Selection Criteria

't We used the following criteria to select studies for inclusion in the meta-analysis .

I. We only included studies that involved the presentation of a communication containing

persuasive arguments. Thus, we excluded studies in which the participants played a role or were

asked to make a speech that contradicted their opinions. We also excluded developmental studies

involving delayed effects of an early event (e.g., child abuse), which sometimes are also referred

to as sleeper effects . . . . [section continues] .

Moderators

. . . ;�; ��:���t;�; ��'�����: ;':� �;�o;de�a) the year and (b) source (Le., journal article, unpublished dissertations and theses , or other unpublished document) of each report as well as

(c) the sample composition (Le., high school students, university students, or other) and (d) the

country in which the study was conducted.

We also coded each experiment in terms of . . . . [section continues].

Studies were coded independently by the first author and another graduate student.

Paper adapted from "The Sleeper Effect in Persuasion: A Meta-Ana lytic Review, " by G . Kumkale and D .

Albarracin, 2004, PsVchological Bulletin, 130, p p . 1 43-1 72. Copyright 2004 b y t h e American Psychological Association .

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was satisfactory (Orwin. 1994). We resolved disagreements by discussion and consultation with

colleagues. Characteristics of the individual studies included in this review are presented in

Table I. The studies often contained several independent datasets such as different messages and

different experiments. The characteristics that distinguish different datasets within a report

appear on the second column of the table.

Dependent Measures and Computation of Effect Sizes

We calculated effect sizes for (a) persuasion and (b) recalJ,-recognition of the message

content. Calculations were based on the data described in the primary reports as well as available

responses of the authors to requests of further information . . . . [section continuesl.

effects . . . . [section

conduct analyses

The data

Overview of the

Analyses of Effect Sizes

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place over time. . . . [section continues].

In light of these requirements. we first examined whether discounting cljo.1e<J ·;; a . . . .

agreement with the communication (boomerang effect). l'l8xt.::.: i;;ction continuesl • • • • • • • • RUllngOtit anonpersls�;h®m�f!iftg�ti;;�' To determine wQelher·�;:·ot a delayed , ,' .' '- . - , -, , .. -., . - . ,- - -. . .-

increase in persuasion represents an absolute sleeper effect, oQelle;d� to rule out a nonpersisting . . ..

boomerang effect. which takes place when a messijge'j';itlally backfires but later loses this . . . .

reverse effect (see Panel A o f Figure 1,l..'Js��tion continuesl.

t\,,�g��IAAPer etre4Ak;I�vant statistics corresponding to average changes in persuasion from the immediate to the delayed posltest appear in Table 4. organized by the

different conditions we considered (Le., acceptance-cue, discounting-cue, no-message control,

and message-only control). In Table 4. positive effect sizes indicate increases in persuasion over

time. negative effect sizes indicate decay in persuasion. and zero effects denote stability in

persuasion. Confidence intervals that do not include zero indicate significant changes over time.

The first row of Table 4 shows that recipients of acceptance cues agreed with the message less as

time went by (fixed-effects. d. = -0.2 1 ; random-effects. d. = -0.23) . In contrast to the decay in persuasion for recipients of acceptance cues, there was a slight increase in persuasion for

recipients of discounting cues over time (d. = 0.08). It is important to note that cbange in

discounting-cue conditions significantly differed from cbange in acceptance-cue conditions.

(fixed-effects; B =-O.29. SE = 0.04). QB(1) = 58. 15 .p < .0001 ; Q..{123) = 1 93.82. p < .OOO1.. . . [section continuesl.

Summary and variability of the overan effect. The overall analyses identified a relative sleeper effect in persuasion. but no absolute sleeper effect. The latter was not surprising. because

the sleeper effect was expected to emerge under specific conditions . . . . [section continues].

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Moderator Analyses

Although overall effects have descriptive value, the variability in the change observed in

discounting-cue conditions makes it unlikely that the same effect was present under all

conditions. Therefore, we tested the hypotheses that the sleeper effect would be more likely (e.g.,

more consistent with the absolute pattern in Panel B I of Figure I) when . . . [section continuesl.

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References

References marked with an asterisk indicate studies included in the meta-ana!-ysis. A1barracfn, D. (2002). Cognition in persuasion: An analysis of information tracessing in

response to persuasive communications. In M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances ill experimental

social psychology (Vol. 34, pp. 6 1-1 30). doi: I 0. 1 0 1 6/S0065-260 I (02}80004- 1 . . . [references continuel

Johnson, B. T., & Eagly, A. H. ( 1 989). Effects of involvement in persuasion: A meta-analysis.

Psychological Bulletin, 106, 290--3 1 4. doi: 1 0. 1 037/0033-2909. 1 06.2.290

"Johnson, H. H., Torcivi., J. M., & Poprick, M. A. ( 1 968). Effects of source credibility on the

relationship between authoritarianism and attitude change. Journal of Personality and

Social Psychology, 9, 1 79-1 83. doi : I O . 1037IhOO21 250

"Johnson, H. H., & Watkins, T. A. ( 1 97 1 ). The effects of message repetitions on immediate and

delayed attitude change. Psychonomic Science, 22, 10 1- 103.

Jonas, K., Diehl, M., & Bramer, P. ( 1 997). Effects of attitudinal ambivalence on information

processing and attitude-intention consistency. Journal of Experimental Social

Psychology, 33, 1 90--2 1 0. doi: I 0. 1 006/jesp. 1 996. 1 3 1 7

. . . [references continue)

[Follow the form of the one-experiment sample paper to type the author note, footnotes, tables, and figure captions.)

Writing Clearly and Concisely

his chapter provides some general principles of expository writing and suggests ways to improve writing style. We focus first on the benefits of planning and choosing the best organizational structure to develop your argument. We next

describe some basic principles for writing with clarity and precision and for avoiding bias in language. Last, we demonstrate how correct grammar is the foundation of clear, effective, and persuasive communication.

Organization

Before beginning t o write, consider the best length and structure for the findings you wish to share. Ordering your thoughts logically, both at the paragraph and at the sen­ tence levels, will strengthen the impact of your writing.

3.0 1 Length

The optimal length of a manuscript is the number of pages needed to effectively com­ municate the primary ideas of the study, review, or theoretical analysis. As a rule " less is more. " Discursive writing often obscures an author's main points, and condensing long manuscripts often improves them. If a paper is too long, shorten it by stating points clearly and directly, confining the discussion to the specific problem under inves­ tigation, deleting or combining data displays, eliminating repetition across sections, and writing in the active voice. At times, a paper may need to be divided into two or more papers, each with a more specific focus (however, see section 1 .09 on piecemeal publication) . Journals differ in average length of articles published. It is generally wise to be consistent with the usual practices of the journal to which you are submitting your paper.

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3.02 Organizing a Manuscript With Headings

In scientific writing, sound organizational structure is the key to clear, precise, and log­ ical communication. This includes the use of headings to effectively organize ideas within a study as well as seriation to highlight important items within sections. Concise headings help the reader anticipate key points and track the development of your argu­ ment.

Readers familiar with earlier editions of the Publication Manual will note that we have changed and simplified the heading styles in this edition. This change was moti­ vated by the desire to make planning a less complicated process for the writer and to make articles more accessible for those reading them in electronic formats.

Levels of heading establish the hierarchy of sections via format or appearance. All topics of equal importance have the same level of heading throughout a manuscript. For example, in a multiexperiment paper, the headings for the Method and Results sec­ tions in Experiment 1 should be the same level as the headings for the Method and Results sections in Experiment 2.

Avoid having only one subsection heading and subsection within a section, just as you would in an outline. Use at least two subsection headings within any given section, or use none (e.g., in an outline, you could divide a section numbered I into a minimum of A and B sections; just an A section could not stand alone) .

3.03 Levels of Heading

The heading style recommended by APA consists of five possible formatting arrange­ ments, according to the number of levels of subordination. Each heading level is num­ bered (see Table 3 . 1 ) .

Regardless o f the number of levels of subheading within a section, the heading struc­ ture for all sections follows the same top-down progression. Each section starts with the

Level of heading

2

3

4

5

Format

Centered, Boldface, Uppercase and

Lowercase Headinga

Flush Left, Boldface, Uppercase and

Lowercase Heading

Indented, boldface, lowercase paragraph

heading ending with a period.b

Indented, boldface, italicized, lowercase

paragraph heading ending with a period.

Indented, italicized, lowercase paragraph

heading ending with a period.

'Th is type of capita l ization is also referred to as title case. b in a lowercase paragraph heading, the first letter of the fi rst word is uppercase and the rema in ing words are lowercase.

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highest level of heading, even if one section may have fewer levels of subheading than another section. For example, the Method and Results sections of a paper may each have two levels of subheading, and the Discussion section may have only one level of subhead­ ing. There would then be three levels of heading for the paper overall: the section head­ ings (Method, Results, and Discussion) and the two levels of subheading, as follows:

Sample and Participant Selection

Assessments and Measures

Method

a-sort measures of inhibition and aggressiveness.

Life History Calendar.

Results

Outcome of Inhibited Children at 23 Years Personality and self-esteem.

Social network.

Life history and 10. Outcome of Aggressive Children at 23 Years

Discussion

Inhibited Children: Delayed Social Transitions During Emerging Adulthood

Inhibited Children: Weak Evidence for Internalizing Difficulties

Limitations of the Present Study

Conclusions and Future Prospects

The introduction to a manuscript does not carry a heading that labels it as the introduction. (The first part of a manuscript is assumed to be the introduction. )

Do not label headings with numbers or letters. (The sections and headings in the Publication Manual are numbered only to permit indexing and cross-referencing. ) The number of levels of heading needed for your article will depend on its length and com­ plexity. If only one level of heading is needed, use Level l ; for a paper with two levels of heading, use Levels 1 and 2; if three levels are needed, use Levels 1 , 2, and 3; and so forth.

3.04 Seriation

Just as the heading structure alerts readers to the order of ideas within the paper, seri­ ation helps the reader understand the organization of key points within sections, para­ graphs, and sentences. In any series, all items should be syntactically and conceptual­ ly parallel (see section 3 .23 ) .

Separate paragraphs in a series, such a s itemized conclusions or steps in a proce­ dure, are identified by an Arabic numeral followed by a period but not enclosed in or followed by parentheses. Separate sentences in a series are also identified by an Arabic numeral followed by a period; the first word is capitalized, and the sentence ends with a period or correct punctuation.

Using the lea rned he lplessness theory, we predicted that the depressed and nondepressed participants would make the fol lowing judgments of contro l :

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1 . I nd ividua ls who . . . [paragraph continues] .

2 . Nondepressed persons exposed to . . . [paragraph continues] .

3. Depressed persons exposed to . . . [paragraph continues] .

4. Depressed and nondepressed participants in the no-noise groups . . . [paragraph continues] .

The use of "numbered lists" may connote an unwanted or unwarranted ordinal position (e.g., chronology, importance, priority) among the items. If you wish to achieve the same effect without the implication of ordinality, items in the series should be identified by bullets. Symbols such as small squares, circles, and so forth, may be used in creating a bulleted list. At the time that an article accepted for publication is typeset, the bullet notation will be changed to the style used by that journal.

• I nd ividua ls who . . . [paragraph continues] .

• Nondepressed persons exposed to . . . [paragraph continues] .

• Depressed persons exposed to . . . [paragraph continues] .

• Depressed and nondepressed partic ipants in the no-noise g roups . . . [para­ graph continues] .

Within a paragraph or sentence, identify elements in a series by lowercase letters in parentheses.

The part ic ipant's th ree choices were (a) working with another participant, (b) work ing with a team, and (c) working a lone.

Within a sentence, use commas to separate three or more elements that do not have internal commas; use semicolons to separate three or more elements that have internal commas.

We tested th ree groups: (a) low scorers, who scored fewer than 20 points; (b) moderate scorers, who scored between 20 and 50 points; and (c) h igh scorers, who scored more than 50 points.

Alternatively, you may use bulleted lists within a sentence to separate three or more elements. In these instances, capitalize and punctuate the list as if it were a complete sentence.

In accordance with this theory, these re lations shou ld be marked by

• equ ity, socia l justice, and equal opportun ity;

• sensitivity to i ndividua l d ifferences and promotion of a goodness-of-fit between ind ividua l ly d ifferent people and contexts;

• aff irmative actions to correct ontogenetic or h istorica l inequ it ies i n person­ context fit;

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• efforts to recogn ize and celebrate diversity; and

• promotion of un iversa l part ic ipation in civic l ife, and hence democracy (Lerner, Ba lsano, Ban ik, & Naudeau, 2005, p. 45) .

Writing Style

The prime objective of scientific reporting is clear communication. You can achieve this by presenting ideas in an orderly manner and by expressing yourself smoothly and precisely. Establishing a tone that conveys the essential points of your study in an inter­ esting manner will engage readers and communicate your ideas more effectively.

3.05 Continuity in Presentation of Ideas

Readers will better understand your ideas if you aim for continuity in words, concepts, and thematic development from the opening statement to the conclusion. Continuity can be achieved in several ways. For instance, punctuation marks contribute to conti­ nuity by showing relationships between ideas. They cue the reader to the pauses, inflec­ tions, subordination, and pacing normally heard in speech. Use the full range of punc­ tuation aids available: Neither overuse nor underuse one type of punctuation, such as commas or dashes. Overuse may annoy the reader; underuse may confuse. Instead, use punctuation to support meaning.

Another way to achieve continuity is through the use of transitional words. These words help maintain the flow of thought, especially when the material is complex or abstract. A pronoun that refers to a noun in the preceding sentence not only serves as a transition but also avoids repetition. Be sure the referent is obvious. Other transition devices are time links ( then, next, after, while, since) , cause-effect links ( therefore, con­ sequently, as a result) , addition links ( in addition, moreover, furthermore, similarly), and contrast links (but, conversely, nevertheless, however, although) .

3.06 Smoothness of Expression

Scientific prose and creative writing serve different purposes. Devices that are often found in creative writing-for example, setting up ambiguity; inserting the unexpected; omitting the expected; and suddenly shifting the topic, tense, or person-can confuse or disturb readers of scientific prose. Therefore, try to avoid these devices and aim for clear and logical communication.

Because you have been so close to your material, you may not immediately see cer­ tain problems, especially contradictions the reader may infer. A reading by a colleague may uncover such problems. You can usually catch omissions, irrelevancies, and abruptness by putting the manuscript aside and rereading it later. Reading the paper aloud can make flaws more apparent. (See also section 3 . 1 1 . )

If, on later reading, you find that your writing is abrupt, introducing more transi­ tion devices may be helpful. You may have abandoned an argument or theme prema­ turely; if so, you need to amplify the discussion.

Abruptness may result from sudden, unnecessary shifts in verb tense within the same paragraph or in adjacent paragraphs. By using verb tenses consistently, you can help ensure smooth expression. Past tense (e.g., "Smith showed" ) or present perfect

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tense (e.g., "researchers have shown" ) is appropriate for the literature review and the description of the procedure if the discussion is of past events. Stay within the chosen tense. Use past tense (e.g., "anxiety decreased significantly" ) to describe the results. Use the present tense (e.g., "the results of Experiment 2 indicate" ) to discuss implica­ tions of the results and to present the conclusions. By reporting conclusions in the pres­ ent tense, you allow readers to join you in deliberating the matter at hand. (See section 3 . 1 9 for details on the use of verb tense. )

Noun strings, meaning several nouns used one after another to modify a final noun, create another form of abruptness. The reader is sometimes forced to stop to determine how the words relate to one another. Skillful hyphenation can clarify the relationships between words, but often the best approach is to untangle the string. For example, consider the following string:

common ly used investigative expanded issue control question techn ique

This is dense prose to the reader knowledgeable about studies on lie detection­ and gibberish to a reader unfamiliar with such studies. Possible ways to untangle the string are as follows:

• a control-question techn ique that is commonly used to expand issues i n investigations

• an expanded-issue control-question techn ique that is common ly used i n investigations

• a common techn ique of using control questions to investigate expanded issues

• a common investigative technique of us ing expanded issues i n control questions

One approach to untangling noun strings is to move the last word to the beginning of the string and fill in with verbs and prepositions. For example, early childhood thought disorder misdiagnosis might be rearranged to read misdiagnosis of thought disorders in early childhood.

Many writers strive to achieve smooth expression by using synonyms or near­ synonyms to avoid repeating a term. The intention is commendable, but by using synonyms you may unintentionally suggest a subtle difference. Therefore, choose syn­ onyms with care. The discreet use of pronouns can often relieve the monotonous rep­ etition of a term without introducing ambiguity.

3.07 Tone

Although scientific writing differs in form from literary writing, it need not lack style or be dull. In describing your research, present the ideas and findings directly but aim for an interesting and compelling style and a tone that reflects your involvement with the problem.

Scientific writing often contrasts the positions of different researchers. Differences should be presented in a professional, noncombative manner. For example, "Fong and Nisbett did not address . . . " is acceptable, whereas "Fong and Nisbett completely overlooked . . . " is not.

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One effective way to achieve the right tone is to imagine a specific reader you are intending to reach and to write in a way that will educate and persuade that individual. Envisioning a person familiar to you may make this technique more effective. You may wish to write, for example, to a researcher in a related field who is trying to keep abreast of the literature but is not familiar with jargon or insider perspectives. What would facilitate his or her understanding of and appreciation for the importance of your work?

3.08 Economy of Expression

Say only what needs to be said. The author who is frugal with words not only writes a more readable manuscript but also increases the chances that the manuscript will be accepted for publication. The number of printed pages a journal can publish is limited, and editors therefore often request that authors shorten submitted papers. You can tighten long papers by eliminating redundancy, wordiness, jargon, evasiveness, overuse of the passive voice, circumlocution, and clumsy prose. Weed out overly detailed descriptions of apparatus, participants, or procedures (beyond those called for in the reporting standards; see Chapter 2) ; elaborations of the obvious; and irrelevant obser­ vations or asides. Materials such as these may be placed, when appropriate, in an online supplemental archive (see sections 2 .13 and 8 .03 for further details ) .

Short words and short sentences are easier to comprehend than are long ones. A long technical term, however, may be more precise than several short words, and tech­ nical terms are inseparable from scientific reporting. Yet the technical terminology in a paper should be readily understood by individuals throughout each discipline. An article that depends on terminology familiar to only a few specialists does not suffi­ ciently contribute to the literature.

Wordiness. Wordiness can also impede the ready grasp of ideas. Change based on the fact that to because, at the present time to now, and for the purpose of to simply for or to. Use this study instead of the present study when the context is clear. Change there were several students who completed to several students completed. Unconstrained wordiness lapses into embellishment and flowery writing, which are clearly inappropriate in scientific style.

Redundancy. Writers often use redundant language in an effort to be emphatic. Use no more words than are necessary to convey your meaning.

In the following examples, the italicized words are redundant and should be omitted:

they were both a l i ke

a total of 68 participants

four different groups saw

instructions, which were exactly the same as those used

absolutely essentia l

has been previously found

sma l l in size

one and the same

in close proximity

completely unan imous

just exactly

very close to s ign ificance

period of time

summarize briefly

the reason is because

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Unit length. Although writing only in short, simple sentences produces choppy and bor­ ing prose, writing exclusively in long, involved sentences results in difficult, sometimes incomprehensible material. Varied sentence length helps readers maintain interest and comprehension. When involved concepts require long sentences, the components should proceed logically. Direct, declarative sentences with simple, common words are usually best.

Similar cautions apply to paragraph length. Single-sentence paragraphs are abrupt. Paragraphs that are too long are likely to lose the reader's attention. A new paragraph provides a pause for the reader-a chance to assimilate one step in the conceptual development before beginning another. If a paragraph runs longer than one double­ spaced manuscript page, you may lose your readers. Look for a logical place to break a long paragraph, or reorganize the material.

3.09 Precision and Clarity

Word choice. Make certain that every word means exactly what you intend it to mean. In informal style, for example, feel broadly substitutes for think or believe, but in sci­ entific style such latitude is not acceptable. A similar example is that like is often used when such as is meant:

Correct:

Articles by psychologists such as Sk inner and Watson . . . .

Correct:

Like Watson , Sk inner bel ieved . . . .

Incorrect:

Articles by psychologists l i ke Skinner and Watson . . . .

Colloquial expressions. Avoid colloquial expressions (e.g., write up for report), which diffuse meaning. Approximations of quantity (e.g., quite a large part, practically all, or very few) are interpreted differently by different readers or in different contexts. Approximations weaken statements, especially those describing empirical observations.

Jargon. Jargon is the continuous use of a technical vocabulary, even in places where that vocabulary is not relevant. Jargon is also the substitution of a euphemistic phrase for a familiar term (e.g., monetarily felt scarcity for poverty), and you should scrupu­ lously avoid using such jargon. Federal bureaucratic j argon has had the greatest pub­ licity, but scientific jargon also grates on the reader, encumbers the communication of information, and wastes space.

Pronouns. Pronouns confuse readers unless the referent for each pronoun is obvious; readers should not have to search previous text to determine the meaning of the term. Pronouns such as this, that, these, and those can be troublesome when they refer to something or someone in a previous sentence. Eliminate ambiguity by writing, for example, this test, that trial, these participants, and those reports (see also section 3 .20) .

Comparisons. Ambiguous or illogical comparisons result from omission o f key verbs or from nonparallel structure . Consider, for example, "Ten-year-olds were more like­ ly to play with age peers than 8-year-olds. " Does this sentence mean that 1 O-year-olds were more likely than 8-year-olds to play with age peers ? Or does it mean that 1 0-

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year-olds were more likely to play with age peers and less likely to play with 8-year­ oids ? An illogical comparison occurs when parallelism is overlooked for the sake of brevity, as in "Her salary was lower than a convenience store clerk. " Thoughtful attention to good sentence structure and word choice reduces the chance of this kind of ambiguity.

Attribution. Inappropriately or illogically attributing action in an effort to be objective can be misleading. Examples of undesirable attribution include use of the third person, anthropomorphism, and use of the editorial we.

Third person. To avoid ambiguity, use a personal pronoun rather than the third per­ son when describing steps taken in your experiment.

Correct:

We reviewed the l iteratu re .

Incorrect:

The authors reviewed the l iterature .

Anthropomorphism. Do not attribute human characteristics to animals or to inani­ mate sources.

Correct:

Pai rs of rats (cage mates) were a l lowed to forage together.

Incorrect:

Rat couples (cage mates) were a l lowed to forage together.

Correct:

The staff for the commun ity program was persuaded to a l low five of the observers to become tutors .

Incorrect:

The commun ity program was persuaded to a l low five of the observers to become tutors.

An experiment cannot attempt to demonstrate, control unwanted variables, or interpret findings, nor can tables or figures compare (all of these can, however, show or indicate) . Use a pronoun or an appropriate noun as the subject of these verbs. I or we (meaning the author or authors) can replace the experiment.

Editorial we. For clarity, restrict your use of we to refer only to yourself and your coauthors (use I if you are the sole author of the paper) . Broader uses of we may leave your readers wondering to whom you are referring; instead, substitute an appropriate noun or clarify your usage:

Correct:

Researchers usua l ly classify b i rdsong on the basis of frequency and tempora l structure o f the e lements .

Incorrect:

We usual ly class ify b i rdsong on the basis of frequency and tempora l structure of the elements.

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Some alternatives to we to consider are people, humans, researchers, psychologists, nurses, and so on. We is an appropriate and useful referent:

Correct:

As behaviorists , we tend to d ispute . . .

Incorrect:

We tend to dispute . . .

3. 1 0 Linguistic Devices

Devices that attract attention to words, sounds, or other embellishments instead of to ideas are inappropriate in scientific writing. Avoid heavy alliteration, rhyming, poetic expressions, and cliches. Use metaphors sparingly; although they can help simplify complicated ideas, metaphors can be distracting. Avoid mixed metaphors (e.g., a the­ ory representing one branch of a growing body of evidence) and words with surplus or unintended meaning (e.g., cop for police officer) , which may distract if not actual­ ly mislead the reader. Use figurative expressions with restraint and colorful expressions with care; these expressions can sound strained or forced.

3. 1 1 Strategies to Improve Writing Style

Authors use various strategies in putting their thoughts on paper. The fit between author and strategy is more important than the particular strategy used. Three approaches to achieving professional and effective communication are (a ) writing from an out­ line; (b ) putting aside the first draft, then rereading it later; and (c) asking a colleague to review and critique the draft for you.

Writing from an outline helps preserve the logic of the research itself. An outline identifies main ideas, defines subordinate ideas, helps you discipline your writing and avoid tangential excursions, and helps you notice omissions. In an outline, you can also identify the subheadings that will be used in the article itself.

Rereading your own copy after setting it aside for a few days permits a fresh approach. Reading the paper aloud enables you not only to see faults that you overlooked on the previous reading but also to hear them. When these problems are corrected, give a polished copy to a colleague-preferably a person who has published in a related field but who is not familiar with your own work-for a critical review. Even better, get critiques from two colleagues, and you will have a trial run of a journal's review process.

These strategies, particularly the latter, may require you to invest more time in a manuscript than you had anticipated. The results of these strategies, however, may be greater accuracy and thoroughness and clearer communication.

Reducin g Bias i n lan guage

Scientific writing must be free of implied or irrelevant evaluation of the group or groups being studied. As an organization, APA is committed both to science and to the fair treatment of individuals and groups, and this policy requires that authors who write for APA publications avoid perpetuating demeaning attitudes and biased

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assumptions about people in their writing. Constructions that might imply bias against persons on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, racial or ethnic group, disability, or age are unacceptable.

Long-standing cultural practice can exert a powerful influence over even the most conscientious author. Just as you have learned to check what you write for spelling, grammar, and wordiness, practice rereading your work for bias. Another suggestion is to ask people from targeted groups to read and comment on your material.

What follows is a set of guidelines and discussions of specific issues that affect par­ ticular groups. These are not rigid rules. You may find that some attempts to follow the guidelines result in wordiness or clumsy prose. As always, good judgment is required. If your writing reflects respect for your participants and your readers and if you write with appropriate specificity and precision, you will be contributing to the goal of accu­ rate, unbiased communication. Specific examples for each guideline are given in the Guidelines for Unbiased Language, which can be found on the APA Style website (www.apastyle.org) .

General Guidelines for Reduci ng Bias

Guideline 1 : Describe at the Appropriate Level of Specificity Precision is essential in scientific writing; when you refer to a person or persons, choose words that are accurate, clear, and free from bias. The appropriate degree of specifici­ ty depends on the research question and the present state of knowledge in the field of study. When in doubt, be more specific rather than less, because it is easier to aggre­ gate published data than to disaggregate them. For example, using man to refer to all human beings is simply not as accurate as the phrase women and men. To describe age groups, give a specific age range ( "ages 65-83 years" ) instead of a broad category ( " over 65 years" ; see Schaie, 1993 ) . When describing racial and ethnic groups, be appropriately specific and sensitive to issues of labeling. For example, instead of describing participants as Asian American or Hispanic American, it may be helpful to describe them by their nation or region of origin (e.g., Chinese Americans, Mexican Americans) . If you are discussing sexual orientation, realize that some people interpret gay as referring to men and women, whereas others interpret the term as referring only to men (the terms gay men and lesbians currently are preferred) .

Broad clinical terms such as borderline and at risk are loaded with innuendo unless properly explained. Specify the diagnosis that is borderline (e.g., "people with border­ line personality disorder" ) . Identify the risk and the people it involves (e.g., "children at risk for early school dropout" ) .

Gender i s cultural and i s the term to use when referring to women and men as social groups. Sex is biological; use it when the biological distinction is predominant. Note that the word sex can be confused with sexual behavior. Gender helps keep meaning unambiguous, as in the following example: "In accounting for attitudes toward the bill, sexual orientation rather than gender accounted for most of the variance. Most gay men and lesbians were for the proposal; most heterosexual men and women were against it. "

Part of writing without bias is recognizing that differences should be mentioned only when relevant. Marital status, sexual orientation, racial and ethnic identity, or the fact that a person has a disability should not be mentioned gratuitously.

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G uideline 2: Be Sensitive to Labels Respect people's preferences; call people what they prefer to be called. Accept that preferences change with time and that individuals within groups often disagree about the designations they prefer. Make an effort to determine what is appropriate for your situation; you may need to ask your participants which designations they prefer, par­ ticularly when preferred designations are being debated within groups.

Avoid labeling people when possible. A common occurrence in scientific writing is that participants in a study tend to lose their individuality; they are broadly categorized as objects (noun forms such as the gays and the elderly) or, particularly in descriptions of people with disabilities, are equated with their conditions-the amnesiacs, the depressives, the schizophrenics, the LDs, for example. One solution is to use adjectival forms (e.g., "gay men," "older adults," "amnesic patients" ) . Another is to "put the person first," followed by a descriptive phrase (e.g., "people diagnosed with schizophrenia" ) . Note that the latter solution currently is preferred when describing people with disabilities.

When you need to mention several groups in a sentence or paragraph, such as when reporting results, do your best to balance sensitivity, clarity, and parsimony. For exampk,� it may be cumbersome to repeat phrases such as "person with . " If you provide operational definitions of groups early in your paper (e.g., "Participants scoring a minimum of X on the X scale constituted the high verbal group, and those scoring below X constituted the low verbal group" ) , it is scientifically informative and concise to describe participants thereafter in terms of the measures used to classify them (e.g., " . . . the contrast for the high verbal group was statistically significant, p = .043 " ) , provided the terms are inoffensive. A label should not be used in any form that is perceived as pejorative; if such a perception is possible, you need to find more neu­ tral terms. For example, the demented is not repaired by changing it to demented group, but dementia group would be acceptable. Abbreviations or series labels for groups usually sacrifice clarity and may offend: LDs or LD group to describe people with specific learning difficulties is offensive; HVAs for "high verbal ability group" is difficult to decipher. Group A is not offensive, but it is not descriptive either.

Recognize the difference between case, which is an occurrence of a disorder or ill­ ness, and patient, which is a person affected by the disorder or illness and receiving a doctor's care. "Manic-depressive cases were treated" is problematic; revise to "The patients with bipolar disorders were treated. "

Bias may be promoted when the writer uses one group (often the writer's own group) as the standard against which others are judged, for example, citizens of the United States. In some contexts, the term culturally deprived may imply that one cul­ ture is the universally accepted standard. The unparallel nouns in the phrase man and wife may inappropriately prompt the reader to evaluate the roles of the individuals (i .e., the woman is defined only in terms of her relationship to the man) and the motives of the author. By contrast, the phrases husband and wife and man and woman are parallel. Usage of normal may prompt the reader to make the comparison with abnormal, thus stigmatizing individuals with differences. For example, contrasting les­ bians with "the general public" or with "normal women" portrays lesbians as margin­ al to society. More appropriate comparison groups might be heterosexual women, het­ erosexual women and men, or gay men.

Also be aware of how order of presentation of social groups can imply that the first-mentioned group is the norm or standard and that later mentioned groups are

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deviant. Thus the phrases men and women and White Americans and racial minorities subtly reflect the perceived dominance of men and Whites over other groups. Similarly, when presenting group data, consider how placing socially dominant groups such as men and Whites on the left side of graphs andlor top of tables may also imply that these groups are the universal standard (Hegarty & Buechel, 2006 ) . Avoid a consistent pattern of presenting information about socially dominant groups first.

Guideline 3: Acknowledge Participation Write about the people in your study in a way that acknowledges their participation but is also consistent with the traditions of the field in which you are working. Thus, although descriptive terms such as college students, children, or respondents provide precise information about the individuals taking part in a research project, the more general terms participants and subjects are also in common usage. Indeed, for more than 1 00 years the term subjects has been used within experimental psychology as a general starting point for describing a sample, and its use is appropriate. Subjects and sample are customary when discussing certain established statistical terms (e.g., within-subject and between-subjects design) . Further, the passive voice suggests individuals are acted on instead of being actors ( "the students completed the survey" is preferable to "the stu­ dents were given the survey" or "the survey was administered to the students" ) . "The subjects completed the trial" or "we collected data from the participants" is preferable to "the participants were run. " Consider avoiding terms such as patient management and patient placement when appropriate. In most cases, it is the treatment, not patients, that is managed; some alternatives are coordination of care, supportive services, and assistance. Also avoid the term failed, as in "eight participants failed to complete the Rorschach and the MMPI," because it can imply a personal shortcoming instead of a research result; did not is a more neutral choice (Knatterud, 1 99 1 ) .

As you read the rest of this chapter, consult www.apastyle.org for specific exam­ ples of problematic and preferred language in the Guidelines for Unbiased Language as well as further resources and information about nondiscriminatory language.

Reduci n g Bias by Topic

3. 1 2 Gender

Remember that gender refers to role, not biological sex, and is cultural. Avoid ambi­ guity in sex identity or gender role by choosing nouns, pronouns, and adjectives that specifically describe your participants. Sexist bias can occur when pronouns are used carelessly, as when the masculine pronoun he is used to refer to both sexes or when the masculine or feminine pronoun is used exclusively to define roles by sex (e.g., "the nurse . . . she" ) . The use of man as a generic noun or as an ending for an occupation­ al title (e.g., policeman instead of police officer) can be ambiguous and may imply incorrectly that all persons in the group are male. Be clear about whether you mean one sex or both sexes.

There are many alternatives to the generic he (see the Guidelines for Unbiased Language at www.apastyle.org), including rephrasing (e.g., from "When an individual conducts this kind of self-appraisal, he is a much stronger person" to "When an individ-

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ual conducts this kind of self-appraisal, that person is much stronger" or "This kind of self-appraisal makes an individual much stronger" ) , using plural nouns or plural pro­ nouns (e.g., from "A therapist who is too much like his client can lose his objectivity" to "Therapists who are too much like their clients can lose their objectivity" ) , replacing the pronoun with an article (e.g., from "A researcher must apply for his grant by September 1 " to "A researcher must apply for the grant by September 1 " ) , and drop­ ping the pronoun (e.g., from "The researcher must avoid letting his own biases and expectations influence the interpretation of the results" to "The researcher must avoid letting biases and expectations influence the interpretation of the results" ) . Replacing he with he or she or she or he should be done sparingly because the repetition can become tiresome. Combination forms such as he/she or (s)he are awkward and distracting. Alternating between he and she also may be distracting and is not ideal; doing so implies that he or she can in fact be generic, which is not the case. Use of either pronoun unavoidably suggests that specific gender to the reader. Avoid referring to one sex as the opposite sex: an appropriate wording is the other sex. The term opposite sex implies strong differences between the two sexes; however, in fact, there are more similarities than differences between the two sexes (e.g., Hyde, 2005 ) .

The adjective transgender refers to persons whose gender identity or gender expres­ sion differs from their sex at birth; transgender should not be used as a noun (National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, 2005 ) . The word transsexual refers to transgen­ der persons who live or desire to live full time as members of the sex other than their sex at birth, many of whom wish to make their bodies as congruent as possible with their preferred sex through surgery and hormonal treatment (American Psychiatric Association, 2000; Meyer et aI., 2001 ) . Transsexual can be used as a noun or as an adjec­ tive. The terms female-to-male transgender person, male-to-female transgender person, female-to-male transsexual, and male-to-female transsexual represent accepted usage (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, 2007) . Transsexuals undergo sex reassign­ ment, a term that is preferable to sex change. Cross-dresser is preferable to transvestite.

Refer to a transgender person using words (proper nouns, pronouns, etc . ) appro­ priate to the person's gender identity or gender expression, regardless of birth sex. For example, use the pronouns he, him, or his in reference to a female-to-male transgen­ der person. If gender identity or gender expression is ambiguous or variable, it may be best to avoid pronouns, as discussed earlier in this section (for more detailed informa­ tion, see www.apastyle.org) .

3. 1 3 Sexual Orientation

Sexual orientation refers to an enduring pattern of attraction, behavior, emotion, identi­ ty, and social contacts. The term sexual orientation should be used rather than sexual preference. For a person having a bisexual orientation, the orientation is not chosen even though the sex of the partner may be a choice. For more information, see Guidelines for Psychotherapy With Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients (APA Committee on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Concerns Joint Task Force on Guidelines for Psychotherapy With Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients, 2000; see also www.apastyle.org) .

The terms lesbians, gay men, bisexual men, and bisexual women are preferable to homosexual when one is referring to people who identify this way. Lesbian, gay, and bisexual refer primarily to identities and to the culture and communities that have devel­ oped among people who share those identities. As such, the terms lesbians, gay men,

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and bisexual individuals are more accurate than homosexual. Furthermore, the term homosexuality has been and continues to be associated with negative stereotypes, pathology, and the reduction of people's identities to their sexual behavior. Gay can be interpreted broadly, to include men and women, or more narrowly, to include only men.

3. 1 4 Racial and Ethnic Identity

Preferences for terms referring to racial and ethnic groups change often. One reason for this is simply personal preference; preferred designations are as varied as the people they name. Another reason is that over time, designations can become dated and sometimes negative. Authors are reminded of the two basic guidelines of specificity and sensitivity. In keeping with Guideline 2, use commonly accepted designations (e.g., Census cate­ gories) while being sensitive to participants' preferred designation. For example, some North American people of Mrican ancestry prefer Black and others prefer African American; both terms currently are acceptable. On the other hand, Negro and Afro­ American have become dated; therefore, usage of these terms generally is inappropriate. In keeping with Guideline 1, precision is important in the description of your sample (see section 2.06); in general, use the more specific rather than the less specific term.

Language that essentializes or reifies race is strongly discouraged and is generally con­ sidered inappropriate. For example, phrases such as the Black race and the White race are essentialist in nature, portray human groups monolithically, and often serve to perpetuate stereotypes. Authors sometimes use the word minority as a proxy for non-White racial and ethnic groups. This usage may be viewed pejoratively because minority is usually equated with being less than, oppressed, and deficient in comparison with the majority (i.e., Whites) . Use a modifier (such as ethnic or racial) when using the word minority. When possible, use the actual name of the group or groups to which you are referring.

Racial and ethnic groups are designated by proper nouns and are capitalized. Therefore, use Black and White instead of black and white (the use of colors to refer to other human groups currently is considered pejorative and should not be used) . Unparallel designations (e.g., African Americans and Whites; Asian Americans and Black Americans) should be avoided because one group is described by color while the other group is described by cultural heritage. For modifiers, do not use hyphens in multiword names, even if the names act as unit modifiers (e.g., Asian American participants) .

Designations for some ethnic groups are described next. These groups frequently are included in studies published in APA journals. These examples are far from exhaus­ tive but illustrate some of the complexities of naming (see the Guidelines for Unbiased Language at www.apastyle.org) . Depending on where a person is from, individuals may prefer to be called Hispanic, Latino, Chicano, or some other designation; Hispanic is not necessarily an all-encompassing term, and authors should consult with their partic­ ipants. In general, naming a nation or region of origin is helpful (e.g., Cuban, Salvadoran, or Guatemalan is more specific than Central American or Hispanic) .

American Indian, Native American, and Native North American are all accepted terms for referring to indigenous peoples of North America. When referring to groups including Hawaiians and Samoans, you may use the broader designation Native Americans. The indigenous peoples of Canada may be referred to as First Nations or Inuit people. There are close to 450 Native North American groups, and authors are encouraged to name the participants' specific groups, recognizing that some groups prefer the name for their group in their native language (e.g., Dine instead of Navajo, Tohono O'odham instead of Papago) .

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The term Asian or Asian American is preferred to the older term Oriental. It is gen­ erally useful to specify the name of the Asian subgroup: Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Pakistani, and so on. People of Middle Eastern descent may also be identified by nation of origin: Iraqi, Lebanese, and so forth.

3. 1 5 Disabil ities

The overall principle for "nonhandicapping" language is to maintain the integrity (worth) of all individuals as human beings. Avoid language that objectifies a person by her or his condition (e.g., autistic, neurotic) , that uses pictorial metaphors (e.g., wheel­ chair bound or confined to a wheelchair), that uses excessive and negative labels (e.g., AIDS victim, brain damaged), or that can be regarded as a slur (e.g., cripple, invalid) . Use people-first language, and do not focus on the individual's disabling or chronic condition (e.g., person with paraplegia, youth with autism) . Also use people-first lan­ guage to describe groups of people with disabilities . For instance, say people with intel­ lectual disabilities in contrast to the retarded (University of Kansas, Research and Training Center on Independent Living, 2008 ) .

Avoid euphemisms that are condescending when describing individuals with disabil­ ities (e.g., special, physically challenged, handi-capable) . Some people with disabilities consider these terms patronizing and offensive. When writing about populations with disabilities or participants, emphasize both capabilities and concerns to avoid reducing them to a "bundle of deficiencies" (Rappaport, 1977) . Do not refer to individuals with disabilities as patients or cases unless the context is within a hospital or clinical setting.

3. 1 6 Age

Age should be reported as part of the description of participants in the Method section. Be specific in providing age ranges; avoid open-ended definitions such as "under 1 8 years" or "over 65 years. " Girl and boy are correct terms for referring to individuals under the age of 12 years. Young man and young woman and female adolescent and male adolescent may be used for individuals aged 13 to 1 7 years. For persons 1 8 years and older, use women and men. The terms elderly and senior are not acceptable as nouns; some may consider their use as adjectives pejorative. Generational descriptors such as boomer or baby boomer should not be used unless they are related to a study on this topic. The term older adults is preferred. Age groups may also be described with adjec­ tives. Gerontologists may prefer to use combination terms for older age groups (young­ old, old-old, very old, oldest old, and centenarians) ; provide the specific ages of these groups and use them only as adjectives. Use dementia instead of senility; specify the type of dementia when known (e.g., dementia of the Alzheimer's type) . For more references relating to age, see Guidelines for the Evaluation of Dementia and Age-Related Cognitive Decline (APA Presidential Task Force on the Assessment of Age-Consistent Memory Decline and Dementia, 1998) and "Guidelines for Psychological Practice With Older Adults" (APA, 2004; see also www.apastyle.org) .

3. 1 7 Historical and Interpretive Inaccuracies

Authors are encouraged to avoid perpetuating demeaning attitudes and biased assump­ tions about people in their writing. At the same time, authors need to avoid historical

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and interpretive inaccuracies. Historians and scholars writing literature reviews must be careful not to misrepresent ideas of the past in an effort to avoid language bias. Changes in nouns and pronouns may result in serious misrepresentation of the origi­ nal author's ideas and give a false interpretation of that author's beliefs and intentions. In such writing, it is best to retain the original language and to comment on it in the discussion. Quotations should not be changed to accommodate current sensibilities (see sections 4.08 and 6 .06) .

Contemporary authors may indicate a historical author's original term by follow­ ing it with an asterisk the first time it appears and by providing historical context directly following the quotation. Below is an example of historically appropriate use of a term that is considered biased by today's standards.

I n forming the e l ite scientific society ca l led the Experimenta l ists, litchener " wanted above a l l to have free, informal interchange between older and younger men * in the a rea of experimenta l psychology, with the goa l of socia l iz­ ing the next generation into the profession " (Furumoto, 1 988, p . 1 05) .

*In this example, the term men seems to convey Titchener's intention to exclude women from the society. Substituting a more gender-neutral or inclusive term may be historically inaccurate.

Gram mar and Usage

Incorrect grammar and careless construction of sentences distract the reader, introduce ambiguity, and generally obstruct communication. The examples in this section repre­ sent problems of grammar and usage that occur frequently in manuscripts received by journal editors.

3. 1 8 Verbs

Verbs are vigorous, direct communicators. Use the active rather than the passive voice, and select tense or mood carefully.

Prefer the active voice.

Preferred:

We conducted the survey in a contro l led setti ng .

Nonpreferred:

The survey was conducted in a contro l led setti ng .

The passive voice is acceptable in expository writing and when you want to focus on the object or recipient of the action rather than on the actor. For example, "The speakers were attached to either side of the chair" emphasizes the placement of speak­ ers, not who placed them-the more appropriate focus in the Method section. "The President was shot" emphasizes the importance of the person shot.

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Select tense careful ly. Use the past tense to express an action or a condition that occurred at a specific, definite time in the past, as when discussing another researcher's work and when reporting your results.

Correct:

Sanchez (2000) presented s imi lar resu lts .

Incorrect:

Sanchez (2000) presents s imi lar resu lts .

Use the present perfect tense to express a past action or condition that did not occur at a specific, definite time or to describe an action beginning in the past and con­ tinuing to the present.

Correct:

Since that t ime, severa l investigators have used th is method .

Incorrect:

Since that t ime, severa l investigators used th is method .

Select the appropriate mood. Use the subjunctive only to describe conditions that are contrary to fact or improbable; do not use the subjunctive to describe simple condi­ tions or contingencies.

Correct:

If the experiment were not designed th is way, the resu lts cou ld not be inter­ preted properly.

Incorrect:

If the experiment was not designed this way, the resu lts cou ld not be i nter­ preted properly.

Use would with care. Would can correctly be used to mean habitually, as "The child would walk about the classroom,» or to express a conditional action, as "We would sign the letter if we could. » Do not use would to hedge; for example, change it would appear that to it appears that.

3. 1 9 Agreement of Subject and Verb

A verb must agree in number (i .e., singular or plural) with its subject, regardless of intervening phrases that begin with such words as together with, including, plus, and as well as.

Correct:

The percentage of correct responses as wel l as the speed of the responses increases with practice.

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Incorrect:

The percentage of correct responses as wel l as the speed of the responses increase with practice .

The plural form of some nouns of foreign origin, particularly those that end in the letter a, may appear to be singular and can cause authors to select a verb that does not agree in number with the noun.

Correct:

The data ind icate that Terrence was correct.

Incorrect:

The data ind icates that Terrence was correct .

Correct:

The phenomena occur every 1 00 years .

Incorrect:

The phenomena occurs every 1 00 years .

Consult a dictionary (APA prefers Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 2005 ) when in doubt about the plural form of nouns of foreign origin. For examples of agreement of subject and verb with collective nouns, see the APA Style website (www.apastyle.org) .

3.20 Pronouns

Pronouns replace nouns. Each pronoun should refer clearly to its antecedent and should agree with the antecedent in number and gender.

A pronoun must agree in number (i .e., singular or plural) with the noun it replaces.

Correct:

Neither the h ighest scorer nor the lowest scorer i n the group had any doubt about h is or her competence.

Incorrect:

Neither the h ighest scorer nor the lowest scorer in the group had any doubt about their competence.

A pronoun must agree in gender (i .e., masculine, feminine, or neuter) with the noun it replaces. This rule extends to relative pronouns (pronouns that link subordi­ nate clauses to nouns) . Use who for human beings; use that or which for nonhuman animals and for things.

Correct:

The students who completed the task successfu l ly were rewarded .

Correct:

The instructions that were inc l uded in the experiment were complex .

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Incorrect:

The students that completed the task successfu l ly were rewarded .

Use neuter pronouns to refer to animals (e.g., "the dog . . . it" ) unless the animals have been named:

The ch imps were tested dai ly . . . . Sheba was tested un restra ined i n an open test ing area, which was her usual context for tra in i ng and testing .

Pronouns can be subjects or objects of verbs or prepositions. Use who as the subject of a verb and whom as the object of a verb or a preposition. You can determine whether a relative pronoun is the subject or object of a verb by turning the subordinate clause around and substituting a personal pronoun. If you can substitute he or she, who is correct; if you can substitute him or her, whom is correct.

Correct:

Name the participant who you found achieved scores above the median . [You found he or she achieved scores above the median.]

Incorrect:

Name the participant whom you found ach ieved scores above the median . [You found him or her achieved scores above the median.]

Correct:

The participant whom I identified as the youngest dropped out. [I identified him or her as the youngest.]

Incorrect:

The participant who I identified as the youngest dropped out. [I identified he or she as the youngest.]

In a phrase consisting of a pronoun or noun plus a present participle (e.g., running, flying) that is used as an object of a preposition, the participle can be either a noun or a modifier of a noun, depending on the intended meaning. When you use a participle as a noun, make the other pronoun or noun possessive.

Correct:

We had noth ing to do with their being the winners .

Incorrect:

We had noth ing to do with them being the winners .

Correct:

The resu lt is questionable because of one partic ipant's performing at very h igh speed . [The result i s questionable because of the performance, not because of the participant.]

Incorrect:

The result is questionable because of one participant performing at very h igh speed .

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3.2 1 M isplaced and Dangling Modifiers and Use of Adverbs

An adjective or an adverb, whether a single word or a phrase, must clearly refer to the word it modifies .

Misplaced modifiers. Because of their placement in a sentence, misplaced modifiers ambiguously or illogically modify a word. You can eliminate misplaced modifiers by placing an adjective or an adverb as close as possible to the word it modifies .

Correct:

Using th is procedure, the investigator tested the partic ipants .

Correct:

The i nvestigator tested the part icipants who were us ing the procedu re.

Incorrect:

The i nvestigator tested the part ic ipa nts us ing th is procedu re . [The sentence is unclear about whether the investigator or the participants used this procedure. ]

Correct:

On the basis of th is assumption, we developed a mode l . . . .

Correct:

Based on th is assumption, the model . . . .

Incorrect:

Based on th is assumption, we developed a model . . . . [This construction says, "we are based on an assumption. "]

Many writers have trouble with the word only. Place only next to the word or phrase it modifies .

Correct:

These data provide on ly a part ia l answer.

Incorrect:

These data on ly provide a pa rtia l answer.

Dangl ing modifiers. Dangling modifiers have no referent in the sentence. Many of these result from the use of the passive voice. By writing in the active voice, you can avoid many dangling modifiers .

Correct:

Using th is procedu re, I tested the participants . [I, not the participants, used the procedure. ]

Incorrect:

The partic ipants were tested using th is procedure .

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Correct:

M u lho l land and Wi l l iams (2000) found that th is group performed better, a resu lt that is congruent with those of other studies. [The result, not Mulholland and Williams, is congruent.]

Incorrect:

Congruent with other studies, Mu lhol land and Wi l l iams (2000) found that th is group performed better .

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Adverbs. Adverbs can be used as introductory or transitional words. Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs and express manner or quality. Some adverbs, however-such as fortunately, similarly, certainly, consequently, conversely, and regret­ tably--can also be used as introductory or transitional words as long as the sense is confined to, for example, "it is fortunate that" or "in a similar manner. " Use adverbs judiciously as introductory or transitional words. Ask yourself whether the introduc­ tion or transition is needed and whether the adverb is being used correctly.

Some of the more common introductory adverbial phrases are importantly, more importantly, interestingly, and firstly. Although importantly is used widely, whether its adverbial usage is proper is debatable. Both importantly and interestingly can often be recast to enhance the message of a sentence or simply be omitted without a loss of meamng.

Correct:

More important, the tota l amount of ava i l ab le long-term memory activation , and not the rate of spread ing activat ion, d rives the rate and probab i l ity of retrieva l .

Correct:

Expressive behavior and autonomic nervous system activity a lso have figu red importantly . . .

Incorrect:

More importantly, the tota l amount of ava i lab le long-term memory activat ion, and not the rate of spreading activation, d rives the rate and probab i l ity of retrieva l .

Correct:

We were su rprised to learn that the tota l . . . .

We f ind it i nterest ing that the tota l . . . .

An i nteresting f ind ing was that. . . .

Incorrect:

I nteresti ng ly, the tota l amount of avai lab le long-term memory activation, and not the rate of spreading activation, drives the rate and probab i l ity of retrieva l .

Correct:

First, we hypothesized that the qua l ity of the therapeutic a l l ia nce wou ld be rated h igher . . . .

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Incorrect:

Firstly, we hypothesized that the qua l ity of the therapeutic a l l iance wou ld be rated h igher . . . .

Another adverb often misused as an introductory or transitional word is hopefully. Hopefully means "in a hopeful manner" or "full of hope" ; hopefully should not be used to mean "I hope" or "it is hoped ."

Correct:

I hope th is is not the case.

Incorrect:

Hopefu l ly, th is is not the case.

3.22 Relative Pronouns and Subordinate Conjunctions

Relative pronouns (who, whom, that, which) and subordinate conjunctions (e.g., since, while, although) introduce an element that is subordinate to the main clause of the sen­ tence and reflect the relationship of the subordinate element to the main clause. Therefore, select these pronouns and conjunctions with care; interchanging them may reduce the precision of your meaning.

Relative pronouns. That versus which. That clauses (called restrictive) are essential to the meaning of

the sentence:

The materia ls that worked wel l in the fi rst experiment were used in the second experiment.

Which clauses can merely add further information (nonrestrictive) or can be essen­ tial to the meaning (restrictive) of the sentence. APA prefers to reserve which for non­ restrictive clauses and use that in restrictive clauses.

Restrictive:

The ca rds that worked wel l in the fi rst experiment were not usefu l in the sec­ ond experiment . [Only those cards that worked well in the first experiment were not useful in the second; prefer that. ]

Nonrestrictive:

The cards, which worked wel l in the fi rst experiment, were not usefu l i n the sec­ ond experiment. [The second experiment was not appropriate for the cards.]

Consistent use of that for restrictive clauses and which for nonrestrictive clauses, which are set off with commas, will help make your writing clear and precise.

Subordinate conjunctions. While andsince. Some style authorities accept the use of while and since when they

do not refer strictly to time; however, words like these, with more than one meaning, can cause confusion. Because precision and clarity are the standards in scientific writ-

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ing, restricting your use of while and since to their temporal meanings is helpful. The following examples illustrate the temporal meanings of these terms:

Bragg ( 1 965) found that participants performed wel l wh i le l i sten ing to m usic .

Severa l versions of the test have been developed since the test was fi rst introduced.

While versus although, and, or but. Use while to link events occurring simultaneous­ ly; otherwise, use although, and, or but in place of while.

Precise:

Although these f ind ings are unusua l , they are not un ique .

Imprecise:

Whi le these f ind ings a re unusual , they a re not un ique .

Precise:

The argument is purely ph i losophica l , but the concl usion can a lso yield an empir­ ical hypothesis, amenable to empirical i nvestigation .

Imprecise:

Whi le the a rgument is purely ph i losophica l , the conclusion can a lso yie ld an empirica l hypothesis, amenable to empirica l i nvestigation .

Since versus because. Since is more precise when it i s used t o refer only t o time (to mean "after that" ) ; otherwise, replace it with because.

Precise:

Data for two part ic ipants were incomplete because these participants d id not report for fo l low-up testi ng .

Imprecise:

Data for two part ic ipants were i ncomplete since these partic ipants did not report for fol low-up testing .

3.23 Paral lel Construction

To enhance the reader's understanding, present parallel ideas in parallel or coordinate form. Make certain that all elements of the parallelism are present before and after the coordinating conjunction (i.e., and, but, or, nor).

Correct:

The resu lts show that such changes cou ld be made without affecti ng error rate and that latencies conti nued to decrease over time .

Incorrect:

The resu lts show that such changes cou ld be made without affect ing error rate and latencies continued to decrease over t ime.

W R I T I N G C L E A R L Y A N D C O N C I S E L Y _

With coordinating conjunctions used in pairs (between . . . and, both . . . and, neither . . . nor, either . . . or, not only . . . but also) , place the first conjunction immediately before the first part of the parallelism.

Between and and.

Correct:

We recorded the d ifference between the performance of subjects who complet­ ed the fi rst task and the performance of those who completed the second task . [The difference is between the subjects' performances, not between the per­ formance and the task.]

Incorrect:

We recorded the d ifference between the performance of subjects who com­ p leted the fi rst task and the second task .

Correct:

between 2 . 5 and 4.0 years of age

Incorrect:

between 2 . 5-4.0 years of age

Both and and.

Correct:

The names were d ifficu lt both to pronounce and to spe l l .

Incorrect:

The names were both d ifficu lt to pronounce and spe l l .

Never use both with as well as: The resulting construction is redundant.

Correct:

The names were d ifficu lt to pronounce as wel l as to spe l l .

Incorrect:

The names were d ifficu lt both to pronounce as wel l as to spe l l .

Neither and nor; either and or.

Correct:

Neither the responses to the auditory stimu l i nor the responses to the tact i le stimu l i were repeated .

Incorrect:

Neither the responses to the aud itory stimu l i nor to the tacti le stimu l i were repeated .

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Correct:

The respondents either gave the worst answer or gave the best a nswer.

or

The respondents gave either the worst answer or the best answer.

Incorrect:

The respondents either gave the worst answer or the best answer.

Not only and but also.

Correct:

It is surpris ing not only that penci l-and-paper scores pred icted th is resu lt but a lso that a l l other predictors were less accurate.

Incorrect:

It is not only surpris ing that penci l-and-paper scores predicted th is resu lt but a lso that a l l other predictors were less accurate .

Elements in a series should also be parallel in form.

Correct:

The participants were told to make themselves comfortable, to read the instruc­ t ions, and to ask about anyth ing they did not understand .

Incorrect:

The participants were told to make themselves comfortable, to read the instruc­ tions, and that they should ask about anyth ing they did not understand .

Take care to use parallel structure in lists and in table stubs ( see sections 3 .04 and 5 . 1 3 ) .

The Mechanics of Style

hen editors refer to style, they mean the rules or guidelines a publisher observes to ensure clear, consistent presentation in scholarly articles. Authors writing for a publication must follow the style rules established by the publisher to avoid

inconsistencies among journal articles or book chapters. For example, without rules of style, three different manuscripts might use sub-test, subtest, and Subtest in one issue of a journal or in one book. Although the meaning of the word is the same and the choice of one style over the other may seem arbitrary (in this case, subtest is APA Style), such vari­ ations in style may distract or confuse the reader.

This chapter describes the style for APA journals regarding the most basic tools for conveying meaning-punctuation, spelling, capitalization, italics, abbreviations, num­ bers, metrication, and statistics. It omits general rules explained in widely available style manuals and examples of usage with little relevance to APA journals. Style man­ uals agree more often than they disagree; where they disagree, the Publication Manual takes precedence for APA publications.

Punctuatio n

Punctuation establishes the cadence of a sentence, telling the reader where to pause (comma, semicolon, and colon), stop (period and question mark), or take a detour (dash, parentheses, and brackets) . Punctuation of a sentence usually denotes a pause in thought; different kinds of punctuation indicate different kinds and lengths of pauses.

4.0 1 Spacing After Punctuation Marks

Insert one space after

• commas, colons, and semicolons; • periods that separate parts of a reference citation; and

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II periods of the initials in personal names (e.g., J . R . Zhang) .

Exception: Do not insert a space after internal periods in abbreviations (e .g . , a .m . , i . e . , U . S . ) , including identity-concealing labels for study participants ( F. I . M . ) , or around colons in ratios. Spacing twice after punctuation marks at the end of a sentence aids readers of draft manuscripts.

4.02 Period

Use a period to end a complete sentence. Periods are used with abbreviations as follows:

Use periods with

II initials of names (J . R . Smith) . II abbreviation for United States when it is used as an adjective ( U .S . Navy) . II identity-concealing labels for study participants (F. I . M . ) . (See section 4.01 on spacing.) II Latin abbreviations (a .m . , ct . , i .e . , vs . ) . II reference abbreviations (Vo l . 1 , 2nd ed . , p . 6, F. Supp . ) .

Do not use periods with

II abbreviations of state names (NY; OH ; Wash ington, DC) in reference list entries or in vendor locations (e.g., for drugs and apparatus described in the Method section) .

II capital letter abbreviations and acronyms (APA, NDA, N I M H, 1 0) . II abbreviations for routes of administration ( icv, im, i p , iv, sc) . II web addresses in text or in the reference list (http ://www.apa .org) . In text, include

these in parentheses when possible or revise the sentence to avoid ending a sentence with a URL and no punctuation.

II metric and nonmetric measurement abbreviations (cd, cm, ft, h r, kg, Ib, m in , m l , s ) .

Exception: The abbreviation for inch ( i n . ) takes a period because without the period it could be misread.

4.03 Comma

Use a comma

II between elements (including before and and or) in a series of three or more items.

Correct:

the height, width, or depth

in a study by Stacy, Newcomb, and Bentler ( 1 991 )

Incorrect:

in a study by Stacy, Newcomb and Bentler ( 1 991 )

II to set off a nonessential or nonrestrictive clause, that is, a clause that embellishes a sentence but if removed would leave the grammatical structure and meaning of the sentence intact.

Switch A, which was on a panel , contro l led the record ing device.

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Statistica l ly s ign ificant d ifferences were found for both rat ings of contro l lab i l ity by self, F(3, 1 32) = 1 9 . 58, P < .001 , est 112 = . 3 1 , 95% CI [ . 1 7, .431 . and rati ngs of contro l lab i l ity by others, F(3, 96) = 3 .2 1 , P = . 026, est 112 = . 09, [ .00, .20] .

• to separate two independent clauses joined by a conjunction.

Cedar shavings covered the floor, and paper was ava i lab le for sh redding and nest bu i ld ing .

• to set off the year in exact dates.

Apri l 1 8, 1 992, was the correct date.

but

Apri l 1 992 was the correct month .

• to set off the year in parenthetical reference citations.

( Patrick, 1 993)

(Kelsey, 1 993, discovered . . . )

• to separate groups of three digits in most numbers of 1 ,000 or more (see section 4 .37 for exceptions) .

Do not use a comma

• before an essential or restrictive clause, that is, a clause that limits or defines the material it modifies. Removal of such a clause from the sentence would alter the intended meaning.

The switch that stops the recording device a lso contro ls the l ight .

• between the two parts of a compound predicate.

Correct:

Al l subjects completed the fi rst phase of the experiment and retu rned the fol­ lowing week for Phase 2 .

Incorrect:

Al l subjects completed the fi rst phase of the experiment, and retu rned the fol­ lowing week for Phase 2 .

• to separate parts o f measurement.

8 years 2 months 3 min 40 s

4.04 Semicolon

Use a semicolon

• to separate two independent clauses that are not joined by a conjunction.

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The participants in the fi rst study were paid; those i n the second were unpa id .

l1li to separate elements in a series that already contain commas. (See section 3 .04 for the use of semicolons in numbered or lettered series. )

The color order was red , ye l low, b lue; b lue, ye l low, red ; o r ye l low, red, b lue .

(Davis & H ueter, 1 994; Pettigrew, 1 993) age, M = 34.5 years, 95% CI [29.4, 39.6] ; yea rs of education , M = 1 0 .4 [8 .7 , 1 2 . 1 ] ; and weekly i ncome, M = 61 2 [522, 702] ;

4.05 Colon

Use a colon

II between a grammatically complete introductory clause (one that could stand as a sentence) and a final phrase or clause that illustrates, extends, or amplifies the pre­ ceding thought. If the clause following the colon is a complete sentence, it begins with a capital letter.

For example, Freud ( 1 930/1 961 ) wrote of two urges: an u rge toward un ion with others and an egoistic urge toward happiness.

They have agreed on the outcome: I nformed partic ipants perform better than do un informed participants .

II in ratios and proportions. The proportion (sa ltwater) was 1 :8 .

l1li in references between place of publication and publisher. New York, NY: Wi ley. St. Lou is, MO: Mosby.

Do not use a colon

II after an introduction that is not an independent clause or complete sentence.

The formu la is Ii = 8j + e. The instructions for the task were

Your group's task is to rank the 1 5 items in terms of their importance for the crew's surviva l .

4.06 Dash

Use a dash to indicate only a sudden interruption in the continuity of a sentence. Over­ use weakens the flow of material. (See also section 4 . 15 for capitalization following dashes in titles. )

These two participants-one from the fi rst group a n d o n e from t h e second­ were tested separate ly.

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4.07 Quotation Marks

Observe the following guidelines for uses of double quotation marks other than in material quoted directly from a source.

Use double quotation marks

II to introduce a word or phrase used as an ironic comment, as slang, or as an invented or coined expression. Use quotation marks the first time the word or phrase is used; thereafter, do not use quotation marks.

Correct:

considered " norma l " behavior

the " good-outcome" variable . . . the good-outcome variab le [no quotation marks after the initial usage]

Incorrect:

considered ' norma l ' behavior

the " good-outcome" variable . . . the "good-outcome " va riab le

II to set off the title of an article or chapter in a periodical or book when the title is mentioned in text.

Riger's ( 1 992) a rt ic le, " Epistemologica l Debates, Femin ist Voices: Science, Socia l Va lues, and the Study of Women "

II to reproduce material from a test item or verbatim instructions to participants.

The fi rst f i l l-i n item was "could be expected to __ _

If instructions are long, set them off from text in a block format without quotation marks. (See sections 4.08 and 6.03 for discussion of block format. )

Do not use double quotation marks

.. to identify the anchors of a scale. Instead, italicize them.

We ran ked the items on a sca le ra ng ing from 1 (all of the time) to 5 (never ) .

II to cite a letter, word, phrase, or sentence as a linguistic example. Instead, italicize the term.

He cla rified the disti nction between farther and further .

.. to introduce a technical or key term. Instead, italicize the term.

The term zero-base budgeting appeared frequently i n the speech .

She compared i t with meta-analysis, which is described in the next section .

P U N C T U A T I O N

IIIl to hedge. Do not use any punctuation with such expressions.

Correct:

The teacher rewarded the class with tokens.

Incorrect:

The teacher " rewarded " the class with tokens.

4.08 Double or Single Quotation Marks

I n text. Use double quotation marks to enclose quotations in text. Use single quotation marks within double quotation marks to set off material that in the original source was enclosed in double quotation marks.

Correct:

Mie le ( 1 993) found that " the 'p lacebo effect: which had been verified in previ­ ous studies, disappeared when [only the fi rst group's) behaviors were studied in th is manner" (p . 276) .

Incorrect:

Miele ( 1 993) found that "the " p lacebo effect, " which had been verified in previ­ ous studies, disappeared when [only the fi rst group's) behaviors were studied i n t h i s manner" ( p . 276) .

In block quotations (any quotations of 40 or more words). Do not use quotation marks to enclose block quotations. Do use double quotation marks to enclose any quoted material within a block quotation.

Correct:

Mie le ( 1 993) found the fol lowing:

The " p lacebo effect, " which had been verified in previous studies, d isappeared when behaviors were studied in th is manner. Furthermore, the behaviors were never exhibited again [emphasis added) . even when reel [sic) drugs were admin istered . Ear l ier studies (e .g . , Abdu l l ah , 1 984; Fox, 1 979) were clea rly premature in attribut ing the resu lts to a p lacebo effect. (p . 276)

Incorrect:

Mie le ( 1 993) found the fol lowing:

"The 'p lacebo effect: which had been verified in previous studies, d isappeared when behaviors were studied in th is manner. Furthermore, the behaviors were never exhibited again [emphasis added) . even when reel [sic) drugs were admin istered . Ear l ier studies (e .g . , Abdu l l ah , 1 984; Fox, 1 979) were c lear ly premature in attribut ing the resu lts to a p lacebo effect (p . 276) . "

With other punctuation. Place periods and commas within closing single or double quo­ tation marks. Place other punctuation marks inside quotation marks only when they are part of the quoted material.

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4.09 Parentheses Use parentheses

• to set off structurally independent elements.

The patterns were statistica l ly s ign ificant (see Figure 5) .

(When a complete sentence is enclosed i n parentheses, p lace punctuation i n the sentence i nside the parentheses, l i ke th is . ) I f on ly part of a sentence is enclosed i n parentheses ( l i ke th is ) , place punctuation outside the parentheses ( l i ke this) .

• to set off reference citations in text (see sections 6.09-6 . 19 and Appendix 7. 1 for fur­ ther discussion of reference citations in text) .

Dumas and Dore ( 1 991 ) reported

is fu l ly described e lsewhere (Hong & O'Nei l , 1 992) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed . , text rev. ; DSM-IV-TR; American Psych iatric Association, 2000)

• to introduce an abbreviation.

effect on the galvan ic sk in response (GSR)

• to set off letters that identify items in a series within a sentence or paragraph (see also section 3 .04 on seriation) .

The subject areas inc l uded (a) synonyms associated with cu ltura l i nteractions, (b) descriptors for ethn ic group membership , and (c) psychologica l symptoms and outcomes associated with bicu ltura l adaptation .

• to group mathematical expressions (see also sections 4 . 10 and 4.47) .

( k - 1 )/(g - 2 )

• to enclose the citation or page number of a direct quotation (see also section 6.03 ) .

The author stated, "The effect d isappeared with in m inutes " ( Lopez, 1 993, p . 3 1 1 ) , but she d id not say which effect.

Lopez ( 1 993) found that "the effect d isappeared with i n m inutes " (p. 3 1 1 ) , but she d id not say which effect.

• to enclose numbers that identify displayed formulas and equations.

• to enclose statistical values.

was statistica l ly s ign ificant (p = . 03 1 )

( 1 )

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• to enclose degrees of freedom.

t(75) = 2 . 1 9

F(2, 1 1 6) = 3 .7 1

Do not use parentheses

• to enclose material within other parentheses.

(the Beck Depression I nventory [BD I ] ) [Use brackets to avoid nested parentheses.] were statistica l ly different, F(4, 1 32) = 1 3 .62, P < .001 . [Use a comma before the statistics to avoid nested parentheses.]

• back to back.

Correct:

(e .g . , defensive pessimism; Norem & Cantor, 1 986) Incorrect:

(e .g . , defensive pessimism) (Norem & Cantor, 1 986)

4. 1 0 Brackets

Use brackets

• to enclose the values that are the limits of a confidence interval.

95% C is [-7 .2 , 4.3] , [9 .2, 1 2 .4) , and [-1 .2 , -0.5)

• to enclose material inserted in a quotation by some person other than the original writer.

" when [h is own and others' ) behaviors were studied " (Han isch, 1 992, p . 24)

• to enclose parenthetical material that is already within parentheses.

(The results for the control group [n = 8) are a lso presented in F igure 2 . )

Exception 1 : Do not use brackets i f the material can be set off easily with commas ' without confounding meaning.

(as I ma i , 1 990, later concluded)

not

(as I ma i ( 1 990) later concluded)

Exception 2: In mathematical material, the placement of brackets and parentheses is reversed; that is, parentheses appear within brackets. (See section 4.47 for further dis­ cussion of brackets in equations. )

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Do not use brackets

• to set off statistics that already include parentheses.

Correct:

was statistica l ly s ign ificant, F( I , 32) = 4.37, P = . 045. Incorrect:

was statistica l ly s ign ificant (F[ I , 32) = 4.37, P = . 045) . Incorrect:

was statistica l ly s ign ificant [F( I , 32) = 4.37, P = .045) .

4. 1 1 Slash

Use a slash (also called a virgule, solidus, or shill)

• to clarify a relationship in which a hyphenated compound is used.

the classification/s imi larity-judgment condition

h its/fa lse-alarms comparison

• to separate numerator from denominator.

X/Y

• to indicate per to separate units of measurement accompanied by a numerical value (see section 4.27) .

0 .5 deg/s

but

7.4 mg/kg

luminance is measured in candelas per square meter

• to set off English phonemes.

/0/

• to cite a republished work in text.

Freud ( 1 923/1 961 )

Do not use a slash

• when a phrase would be clearer.

Each ch i ld handed the bal l to her mother or guardian .

not

Each chi ld handed the bal l to her mother/guardian .

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• for simple comparisons. Use a hyphen or short dash (en dash) instead.

test-retest re l iab i l ity

not

test/retest rel iab i l ity

• more than once to express compound units. Use centered dots and parentheses as needed to prevent ambiguity.

n mol • hr-1 • mg-1

not

nmol/hr/mg

Spel l ing

4 . 1 2 Preferred Spelling

Spelling should conform to standard American English as exemplified in Merriam­ Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (2005 ), the standard spelling reference for APA journals and books; spelling of psychological terms should conform to the APA Dictionary of Psychology (VandenBos, 2007). If a word is not in Webster's Collegiate, consult the more comprehensive Webster's Third New International Dictionary (2002) . If the dic­ tionary gives a choice, use the first spelling listed; for example, use aging and canceled rather than ageing and cancelled.

Plural forms of some words of Latin or Greek origin can be troublesome; a list of preferred spellings of some of the more common ones follows. Authors are reminded that plural nouns take plural verbs.

Singular Plural

appendix appendices

cannu la cannu las

datum data

phenomenon phenomena

In general, the possessive of a singular name is formed by adding an apostrophe and an s, even when a name ends in s; the possessive of a plural name is formed by adding an apostrophe. A list of examples follows as well as some exceptions.

Singular Plural

Freud's the Freuds'

James's the Jameses'

Watson's the Watsons'

Sk inner's the Sk inners'

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Exceptions: Use an apostrophe only with the singular form of names ending in unpro­ nounced s (e.g., Descartes' ) . It is preferable to include of when referring to the plural form of names ending in unpronounced s (e.g., the home of the Descartes) .

4 . 1 3 Hyphenation

Compound words take many forms; that is, two words may be written as (a ) two sep­ arate words; (b ) a hyphenated word; or (c) one unbroken, " solid" word. Choosing the proper form is sometimes frustrating. For example, is follow up, follow-up, or followup the form to be used? The dictionary is an excellent guide for such decisions, especially for nonscientific words (the term is follow-up when functioning as a noun or adjective but follow up when functioning as a verb ) . When a compound can be found in the dictionary, its usage is established and it is known as a permanent com­ pound (e.g., high school, caregiver, and self-esteem). Dictionaries do not always agree on the way a compound should be written (open, solid, or hyphenated) ; APA follows Webster's Collegiate in most cases. Compound terms are often introduced into the lan­ guage as separate or hyphenated words, and as they become more commonplace, they tend to fuse into a solid word. For example, the hyphen was dropped from life-style in the 1 1th edition of Webster's Collegiate, and data base is now database.

There is another kind of compound-the temporary compound-which is made up of two or more words that occur together, perhaps only in a particular paper, to express a thought. Because language is constantly expanding, especially in science, temporary compounds develop that are not yet listed in the dictionary. If a temporary compound modifies another word, it may or may not be hyphenated, depending on (a) its position in the sentence and (b) whether the pairing of a compound with another word can cause the reader to misinterpret meaning. The main rule to remember is that if a temporary compound precedes what it modifies, it may need to be hyphenated, and if it follows what it modifies, it usually does not. If a compound is not in the diction­ ary, follow the general principles of hyphenation given here and in Table 4 . 1 . If you are still in doubt, use hyphens for clarity rather than omitting them. (See also Tables 4.2 and 4.3 for treatment of prefixes and suffixes. )

Hyphens, dashes, and minus signs are each typed differently.

III hyphen: Use no space before or after (e.g., trial-by-trial analysis ) . III em dash: An em dash i s longer than a hyphen or an en dash and i s used to set off an

element added to amplify or to digress from the main clause (e.g., Studies-published and unpublished-are included). Use no space before or after an em dash. If an em dash is not available on your keyboard, use two hyphens with no space before or after .

.. en dash: An en dash is longer and thinner than a hyphen yet shorter than an em dash and is used between words of equal weight in a compound adjective (e.g., Chicago­ London flight) . Type as an en dash or, if the en dash is not available on your keyboard, as a single hyphen. In either case, use no space before or after.

III minus sign: A typeset minus sign is the same length as an en dash, but it is slightly thicker and slightly higher. If a minus sign is not available in your word­ processing program, use a hyphen with a space on both sides (e .g . , a - b ) . For a negative value, use a hyphen rather than a minus sign, with a space before but no space after (e.g. , -S.2S ) .

S P E L L I N G

Rule

Hyphenate

1 . A compound with a pa rtic ip le when it precedes the term it modif ies

2. A phrase used as an adjective when it precedes the term it modifies

3. An adjective-and-noun compound when it precedes the term it modifies

4. A compound with a number as the fi rst e lement when the compound precedes the term it modifies

5 . A fraction used as an adjective

Do not hyphenate

1 . A compound inc lud ing an adverb ending in Iy

2. A compound inc lud ing a comparative or superlative adjective

3. Chemica l terms

4. Foreign phrases used as adjectives or adverbs

5 . A modif ier inc lud ing a letter or numera l as the second element

6. Common fractions used as nouns

General Principle 1

Example

fill role-playing techn ique fill anxiety-arousing condit ion fill water-deprived an ima ls III! tria I-by-tria I ana lys is IlII to-be-reca l led items Ill! a l l-or-none questionna i re Ill! h igh-anxiety g roup I!II middle-c lass fam i l ies mil low-frequency words mil two-way ana lys is of variance Ill! six-tria l problem mil 1 2th-grade students I!II 1 6-s i nterva l I!II two-th i rds majority

fill widely used text Iiil relatively homogeneous samp le 1m randomly assigned part ic ipants fill better written paper I!IiI less informed interviewers IlII h igher scoring students 1m h igher order learn ing mil sod ium ch loride solut ion Iiil amino acid compound Iiil a posteriori test I!IiI post hoc comparisons fill fed ad l ib [but hyphenate the adjectival form:

ad-l ib feeding ; see Webster's Collegiate]

l1li Group B part ic ipants I!IiI Type I I error Iiil Tria l 1 performance mil one th i rd of the part ic ipants

If a compound adjective can be misread, use a hyphen.

General Principle 2 In a temporary compound that is used as an adjective before a noun, use a hyphen if the term can be misread or if the term expresses a single thought (i.e., all words together

T H E M E C H A N I C S O F S T Y L E _

Prefix or suffix Example Prefix or suffix Example

able retrievable mini min isession

after aftereffect multi mu lt iphase

anti antisocia l non nonsign if icant

bi b i l i ngua l over overaggress ive

cede i ntercede phobia agoraphobia

co coworker post posttest

counter counterba lance pre preexperimenta l

equi equ imax pro prowar

extra extracurricu lar pseudo pseudoscience

gram cardiogram quasi quas iperiodic

infra i nfrared re reeva l uate

inter interstim u lus semi semidarkness

intra i ntraspecific socio socioeconomic

l ike wavel i ke sub subtest

macro macrocosm super superordinate

mega megawatt supra supra l im ina l

meta metacogn itive ultra u ltrah igh

meter micrometer un unbiased

micro microcosm under underdeveloped

mid midterm

Exceptions: Use a hyphen in meta-analysis and quasi-experimental.

modify the noun) . For example, are different word lists (a) word lists that are different from other word lists (if so, different modifies word lists; thus, write different word lists) or (b) lists that present different words (if so, the first word modifies the second, and together they modify lists, thus, different-word lists) . Likewise, "the adolescents resided in two parent homes" means that two homes served as residences, whereas if the adoles­ cents resided in "two-parent homes," they each would live in a household headed by two parents. A properly placed hyphen helps the reader understand the intended meaning.

General Principle 3 Most compound adjective rules are applicable only when the compound adjective pre­ cedes the term it modifies. If a compound adjective follows the term, do not use a hyphen, because relationships are sufficiently clear without one. The following exam­ ples are all correctly hyphenated:

cl ient-centered counse l ing

S P E L L I N G

Occurrence

1 . Compounds in which the base word is capita l ized

a number an abbreviation more than one word

2. A l l self- compounds, whether they a re adjectives or nounsa

3 . Words that cou ld be misunderstood

4. Words in which the prefix ends and the base word beg ins with the same vowelb

Example

II pro-Freudian II post-1 970 II pre-UCS trial II non-ach ievement-oriented students

II self-report techn ique II the test was self-paced II self-esteem

.. re-pa ir [pair aga in ] .. re-form [form again] III un-ion ized

III meta-ana lys is III anti-inte l lectua l II co-occur

' B u t self psychology. bPre a n d re compounds are usual ly set solid t o base words beginning

with e.

but

the counsel ing was cl ient centered

t-test resu lts

but

resu lts from t tests

same-sex ch i ldren

but

chi ldren of the same sex

General Principle 4 Write most words formed with prefixes as one word (see Table 4 .2 ) . Table 4 .3 contains some exceptions.

General Principle 5 When two or more compound modifiers have a common base, that base is sometimes omitted in all except the last modifier, but the hyphens are retained.

long- and short-term memory

2-, 3-, and 1 0-min tria ls

T H E M E C H A N I C S O F S T Y L E

Capital izatio n

Use an uppercase letter for the first letter of a word according to the guidelines in the following sections.

4. 1 4 Words Beginning a Sentence

Capitalize

• the first word in a complete sentence.

Note: If a name that begins with a lowercase letter begins a sentence, then it should be capitalized. Do not begin a sentence with a statistical term (e.g., t test or p value; see section 4.30 for abbreviations beginning a sentence) .

Correct:

De Waa l ( 1 994) concluded the fol lowing

Incorrect:

de Waa l ( 1 994) concluded the fol lowing

• the first word after a colon that begins a complete sentence.

The author made one main point No explanation that has been suggested so far answers a l l questions .

4. 1 5 Major Words i n Titles and Headings

Capitalize

• major words in titles of books and articles within the body of the paper. Conjunctions, articles, and short prepositions are not considered major words; however, capitalize all words of four letters or more. Capitalize all verbs (including linking verbs) , nouns, adjec­ tives, adverbs, and pronouns. When a capitalized word is a hyphenated compound, cap­ italize both words. Also, capitalize the first word after a colon or a dash in a title.

I n her book, History of Pathology

The critic ism of the art ic le, "Attitudes Toward Menta l Health Workers "

" U ltrasonic Voca l izations Are E l ic ited From Rat Pups "

" Memory in Hearing-I mpaired Chi ldren : I mpl ications for Vocabu lary Development"

Exception: In titles of books and articles in reference lists, capitalize only the first word, the first word after a colon or em dash, and proper nouns. Do not capitalize the second word of a hyphenated compound. (See Chapter 6 for further discussion of reference style. )

Liu, D . , Wel lman, H . M . , Tardif, T. , & Sabbagh, M . A. (2008) . Theory of mind de­ velopment in Chinese chi ldren : A meta-ana lysis of fa lse-bel ief understanding across cu ltures and languages. Developmental Psychology, 44, 523-531 . doi: 1 0 . 1 037/001 2-1 649.44.2 .523

Cantor, A. B. ( 1 996) . Sample-size ca lcu lations for Cohen 's kappa . Psychological Methods, 1, 1 50-1 53. doi : 1 0 . 1 037/1 082-989X. 1 . 2 . 1 50

C A P I T A L I Z A T I O N

II major words in article headings and subheadings.

Exception: In indented paragraph (Levels 3, 4, and 5 ) headings, capitalize only the first word and proper nouns (see section 3 .03) .

II major words in table titles and figure legends. In table headings and figure captions, capitalize only the first word and proper nouns (see sections 5 . 1 3 for table headings and 5 .23 for figure captions) .

II references t o titles o f sections within the same article.

as expla ined in the Method section

which is discussed in the Data Ana lyses subsection

4. 1 6 Proper Nouns and Trade Names

Capitalize

.. proper nouns and adjectives and words used as proper nouns. Proper adjectives that have acquired a common meaning are not capitalized; consult Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (2005 ) for guidance.

Freudian s l ip

Wi l ks 's lambda

G reco-Latin square

but

eustach ian tube

cesarean section

II names of university departments if they refer to a specific department within a specific university and complete names of academic courses if they refer to a specific course.

Department of Sociology, Un iversity of Wash ington

Psychology 1 0 1

Developmenta l Psychopathology

but

a sociology department

an i ntroductory psychology course

II trade and brand names of drugs, equipment, and food.

E lavi l [but amitriptyl ine hydroch loride)

H u nter Klockounter

Plexig las

Pur ina Monkey Chow

Xerox

Do not capitalize names of laws, theories, models, statistical procedures, or hypotheses.

the empirica l law of effect

para l le l d istr ibuted processing model

associative learn ing model

a two-group t test

but

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G regory's theory of i l l usions [Retain uppercase in personal names.] Fisher's r to Z transformation

4. 1 7 Nouns Fol lowed by Numerals or Letters

Capitalize nouns followed by numerals or letters that denote a specific place in a num­ bered series.

On Day 2 of Experiment 4

dur ing Tria l 5, the no-delay group performed

as shown in Tab le 2, F igure 38, and Chapter 4

G rant AG02726 from the National I nstitute on Ag ing

Exception: Do not capitalize nouns that denote common parts of books or tables fol­ lowed by numerals or letters.

page iv

row 3

column 5

Do not capitalize nouns that precede a variable.

tria l n and item x

but

Tria l 3 and Item b [The number and letter are not variables.]

4. 1 8 Titles of Tests

Capitalize exact, complete titles of published and unpublished tests. Words such as test or scale are not capitalized if they refer to subscales of tests .

Advanced Vocabu lary Test

M innesota Mu lt iphasic Persona l ity I nventory

Stroop Color-Word I nterference Test

the authors' Mood Adjective Checkl ist

but

M M PI Depression sca le

Do not capitalize shortened, inexact, or generic titles of tests.

a vocabu lary test Stroop color test

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4. 1 9 Names of Conditions or Groups in an Experiment

Do not capitalize names of conditions or groups in an experiment.

experimenta l and control groups

participants were assigned to information and no-information condit ions

but

Condit ions A and B [See section 4 . 17.]

4.20 Names of Factors, Variables, and Effects

Capitalize names of derived variables within a factor or principal components analy­ sis. The words factor and component are not capitalized unless followed by a number (see section 4 .17 ) .

Mealt ime Behavior ( Factor 4)

Factors 6 and 7

Component 1

B ig Five persona l ity factors

Do not capitalize effects or variables unless they appear with multiplication signs. (Take care that you do not use the term factor when you mean effect or variable, for example, in an interaction or analysis of variance. )

a sma l l age effect

the sex, age, and weight va riables

but

the Sex x Age x Weight i nteraction a 3 x 3 x 2 (Groups x Tria ls x Responses) design a 2 (methods) x 2 ( item types)

Ita l ics

4.2 1 Use of Ital ics

For specific use of italics in APA journals, see the guidelines listed below. In general, use italics infrequently.

Use italics for

l1li titles of books, periodicals, films, videos, TV shows, and microfilm publications.

The Elements of Style

American Psychologist

Exception: Words within the title of a book in text that would normally be italicized should be set in Roman type (this is referred to as reverse italicization) .

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A Stereotaxic Atlas of the Monkey Brain (Macaca Mu latta)

Dreaming by the Book: Freud's The I nterpretation of Dreams and the History of the Psychoanalytic Movement

II genera, species, and varieties.

Macaca mulatta

II introduction of a new, technical, or key term or label (after a term has been used once, do not italicize it) .

The term backward masking

box labeled empty

II a letter, word, or phrase cited as a linguistic example.

words such as big and little

the letter a

the mean ing of to fit tightly together

a row of Xs

II words that could be misread.

the small group [meaning a designation, not group size]

II letters used as statistical symbols or algebraic variables.

Cohen 's d = 0 .084

a/b = c/d

SEM

l1li some test scores and scales.

Rorschach scores : F+% , Z M M PI sca les: Hs, Pd

l1li periodical volume numbers in reference lists .

American Psychologist, 26, 46-67

III anchors of a scale.

health rat ings ranged from 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent)

Do not use italics for

II foreign phrases and abbreviations common in English (i .e. , phrases found as main entries in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 2005 ) .

a posteriori e t a l .

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a priori

ad l i b

.. chemical terms.

NaCl , LSD

per se

vis-a-vis

.. trigonometric terms.

sin, tan , log

.. nonstatistical subscripts to statistical symbols or mathematical expressions .

.. Greek letters.

f3 II1II mere emphasis. (Italics are acceptable if emphasis might otherwise be lost; in general,

however, use syntax to provide emphasis. )

Incorrect:

it is important to bear in mind that this process is not proposed as a stage theory of developments .

II letters used as abbreviations.

i ntertria l interva l ( IT I )

Abbreviations

4.22 Use of Abbreviations

To maximize clarity, use abbreviations sparingly. Although abbreviations are sometimes useful for long, technical terms in scientific writing, communication is usually garbled rather than clarified if, for example, an abbreviation is unfamiliar to the reader.

Overuse. Consider whether the space saved by abbreviations in the following sentence justifies the time necessary to master the meaning:

The advantage of the LH was clear from the RT data , which reflected h igh FP and FN rates for t he R H .

Without abbreviations the passage reads a s follows:

The advantage of the left hand was clear from the reaction t ime data , which reflected h igh fa lse-positive and fa lse-negative rates for the r ight hand .

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Underuse. Abbreviations introduced on first mention of a term and used fewer than three times thereafter, particularly in a long paper, may be difficult for a reader to remember, and you probably serve the reader best if you write them out each time. In the following exam­ ple, however, a standard abbreviation for a long, familiar term eases the reader's task:

Patients at seven hospita ls completed the M M PI-2 .

Deciding whether to abbreviate. In all circumstances other than in the reference list ( see section 6.22) and in the abstract, you must decide whether (a) to spell out a given expression every time it is used in an article or (b) to spell it out initially and abbrevi­ ate it thereafter. For example, the abbreviations L for large and 5 for small in a paper discussing different sequences of reward (LL55 or L5L5) would be an effective and readily understood shortcut. In another paper, however, writing about the L reward and the 5 reward would be both unnecessary and confusing. In most instances, abbre­ viating experimental group names is ineffective because the abbreviations are not ade­ quately informative or easily recognizable and may even be more cumbersome than the full name. In general, use an abbreviation only (a) if it is conventional and if the reader is more familiar with the abbreviation than with the complete form or (b ) if consider­ able space can be saved and cumbersome repetition avoided. In short, use only those abbreviations that will help you communicate with your readers. Remember, they have not had the same experience with your abbreviations as you have.

4.23 Explanation of Abbreviations

Because the abbreviations that psychologists use in their daily writing may not be famil­ iar to students or to readers in other disciplines or other countries, a term to be abbrevi­ ated must, on its first appearance, be written out completely and followed immediately by its abbreviation in parentheses. Thereafter, use the abbreviation in text without further explanation (do not switch between the abbreviated and written-out forms of a term).

The resu lts of stud ies of s imple reaction t ime (RT) to a visua l ta rget have shown a strong negative re lation between RT and l um inance.

Explain abbreviations that appear in a figure in the caption or legend. Explain those that appear in a table either in the table title (if it includes words that are abbre­ viated in the table body; see section 5 . 12 ) or in the table note (see section 5 . 16 ) . Explain an abbreviation that is used in several figures or tables in each figure or table in which the abbreviation is used. Avoid introducing abbreviations into figure captions or table notes if they do not appear in the figure or table. Standard abbreviations for units of measurement do not need to be written out on first use (see section 4.27) .

4.24 Abbreviations Accepted as Words

APA Style permits the use of abbreviations that appear as word entries ( i .e . , that are not labeled abbr) in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (2005 ) . Such abbrevia­ tions do not need explanation in text.

10 REM ESP A IDS H IV NADP ACTH

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4.25 Abbreviations Used Often in APA Journals

Some abbreviations may not be in the dictionary but appear frequently in the journal for which you are writing. Although probably well understood by many readers, these abbreviations should still be explained when first used.

Minnesota Mu lt iphasic Persona l ity I nventory (M MP I )

conditiona l stimu lus (CS)

i ntertria l i nterva l ( lT I )

consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC)

short-term memory (STM)

reaction t ime (RT)

Do not use the abbreviations S, E, or 0 for subject, experimenter, and observer.

4.26 Latin Abbreviations

Use the following standard Latin abbreviations only in parenthetical material; in non­ parenthetical material, use the English translation of the Latin terms; in both cases, include the correct punctuation that accompanies the term:

cf. compare

e .g . , for example,

, etc . , and so forth

i . e . , that is,

viz . , namely,

vs . versus, against

Exception: Use the abbreviation v. (for versus) in references and text citations to court cases, whether parenthetical or not (see Appendix 7. 1 , section A7.03, Examples 1-8 ) .

Exception: In the reference list and in text, use the Latin abbreviation e t aI., which means and others, in nonparenthetical as well as parenthetical material.

4.27 Scientific Abbreviations

Units of measurement. Use abbreviations and symbols for metric and nonmetric units of measurement that are accompanied by numeric values (e.g. , 4 em, 30 s, 1 2 m in , 1 8 h r, 45 ° ) . (See Table 4 .4 for a list of some common abbreviations used for units of measurement. )

Do not repeat abbreviated units of measure when expressing multiple amounts:

1 6-30 kHz 0.3, 1 . 5, and 3 .0 mg/d l

Write out abbreviations for units that are not accompanied by numeric values (e.g., measured in centimeters, several kilograms) .

Units of time. To prevent misreading, do not abbreviate the following units o f time, even when they are accompanied by numeric values:

day week month year

Abbreviation Unit of measurement

A ampere

A angstrom AC a lternati ng current

a .m . a nte merid iem

°C degree Cels ius

C i cu rie

cm centimeter

cps cycles per second

dB decibel (specify sca le)

DC d i rect cu rrent

deg/s degrees per second

dl deci l iter

of degree Fah renheit g gram

g gravity

Hz hertz

i n . i nch ( inc lude metric equ iva lent i n parentheses)

I Q intel l igence quotient

I U i nternational un it

kg k i logram

km ki lometer

kph ki lometers per hour

kW ki lowatt

L l iter

Abbreviate the following units of time:

hr, hour

min , m inute

ms, m i l l isecond

ns , nanosecond

s, second

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Abbreviation Unit of measurement

m meter

flm micrometer

mA m i l l iampere

mEq m i l l iequ iva lent

meV mi l l ion e lectron volts

mg mi l l igram

m l mi l l i l iter

mm mi l l imeter

mM mi l l imolar

mmHg mi l l imeters of mercury

mmol m i l l imole

mol wt molecu lar weight

mph m i les per hour ( include metric equ iva lent in parentheses)

Mn megohm

N newton

p .m . post merid iem

ppm parts per m i l l ion

psi pounds per square inch ( inc lude metric equ iva lent i n parentheses)

rpm revolut ions per m inute

S Siemens

V volt

W watt

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Chemical compounds. Chemical compounds may be expressed by common name or by chemical name. If you prefer to use the common name, provide the chemical name in parentheses on first mention in the Method section. Avoid expressing compounds with chemical formulas, as these are usually less informative to the reader and have a high likelihood of being typed or typeset incorrectly (e.g., aspir in or sal icyl ic ac id , not CsHa04) ' If names of compounds include Greek letters, retain the letters as symbols and do not write them out (e.g., � carotene, not beta carotene) .

Long names of organic compounds are often abbreviated; if the abbreviation is listed as a word entry in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (2005; e.g., NADP for nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate), you may use it freely, without writ­ ing it out on first use.

Concentrations. If you express a solution as a percentage concentration instead of as a molar concentration, be sure to specify the percentage as a weight-per-volume ratio (wtlvol), a volume ratio (voVvol) , or a weight ratio (wtlwt) of solute to solvent. The higher the concentration is, the more ambiguous the expression as a percentage. Specifying the ratio is especially necessary for concentrations of alcohol, glucose, and sucrose. Specifying the salt form is also essential for precise reporting: d-amphetamine HCI or d-amphetamine S04 (note that expression of chemical name in combination with a formula is acceptable in this case) .

1 2 % (vol/vo l ) ethyl a lcohol sol ution

1 % (wt/vol ) sacchar in sol ution

Routes of administration. You may abbreviate a route of administration when it is paired with a number-and-unit combination. Preferred style for APA is no periods: icv = intra­ cerebral ventricular, im = intramuscular, ip = intraperitoneal, iv = intravenous, sc = sub­ cutaneous, and so on.

anesthetized with sod ium pentobarbita l (90 mg/kg ip)

but

the fi rst of two subcutaneous injections (not sc i njections)

4.28 Other Abbreviations

Use abbreviations for statistics as described in section 4.45 . For information on the International System of Units (SI), go to the APA Style website (www.apastyle.org ) .

4.29 Plura ls of Abbreviations

To form the plural of most abbreviations and statistical symbols, add s alone, but not italicized and without an apostrophe.

lOs Eds. vols . Ms ps ns

Exception: Do not add an s to make abbreviations of units of measurement plural (e.g. , 1 2 cm; see section 4.40 ) .

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Exception: To form the plural of the reference abbreviation p. (page) , write pp.; do not add an s.

4.30 Abbreviations Beginning a Sentence

Never begin a sentence with a lowercase abbreviation (e.g., Ib) or a symbol that stands alone (e.g., a) . Begin a sentence with a capitalized abbreviation or acronym (e.g., U .S . o r APA) o r with a symbol connected to a word (e.g., �-Endorph ins ) only when neces­ sary to avoid indirect and awkward writing. In the case of chemical compounds, cap­ italize the first letter of the word to which the symbol is connected; keep the locant, descriptor, or positional prefix (i .e., Greek, small capital, and italic letters and numer­ als) intact.

In running text:

L-methion ine

N,N-d imethyl u rea

'Y-hydroxy-�-am inobutyric acid

Numbers

At beginning of sentence:

L-Methionine

N, N-Dimethyl u rea

"tHydroxy-�-aminobutyric acid

The general rule governing APA Style on the use of numbers is to use numerals to express numbers 10 and above and words to express numbers below 10. Sections 4.31-4.34 expand on this rule and state exceptions and special usages.

4.3 1 Numbers Expressed in Numerals

Use numerals to express

a. numbers 10 and above. (Exceptions: See sections 4.33-4.34. )

1 2 em wide the rema in ing 1 0% 25 yea rs old 1 0th-grade students

the 1 5th trial 1 3 l i sts 1 05 stimu lus words

h. numbers in the abstract of a paper or in a graphical display within a paper. c. numbers that immediately precede a unit of measurement.

a 5-mg dose with 1 0 . 54 em of

d. numbers that represent statistical or mathematical functions, fractional or decimal quantities, percentages, ratios, and percentiles and quartiles.

mult ip l ied by 5

3 times as many [proportion]

_ N U M B E R S

0.33 of the

more than 5% of the sample

a ratio of 1 6 : 1

the 5th percenti le

e. numbers that represent time, dates, ages, scores and points on a scale, exact sums of money, and numerals as numerals.

1 hr 34 m in

a t 1 2 :30 a .m .

2-year-olds

scored 4 on a 7-point sca le

Exception: Use words for approximations of numbers of days, months, and years (e.g., about th ree months ago) .

f. numbers that denote a specific place in a numbered series, parts of books and tables, and each number in a list of four or more numbers.

Grade 8 [but the eighth grade; see section 4.34)

Table 3

row 5

4.32 Numbers Expressed in Words

Use words to express

a. any number that begins a sentence, title, or text heading. (Whenever possible, reword the sentence to avoid beginning with a number. )

Forty-e ight percent of the sample showed an i ncrease; 2 % showed no change.

Twelve students improved, and 1 2 students did not improve .

h. common fractions.

one fifth of the class

two-th i rds majority

c. universally accepted usage.

the Twelve Apostles

Five P i l l a rs of Is lam

4.33 Combining Numerals and Words to Express N umbers

Use a combination of numerals and words to express back-to-back modifiers.

2 two-way interactions

ten 7-point sca les

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A combination of numerals and words in these situations increases the clarity and readability of the construction. In some situations, however, readability may suffer; in such a case, spell out both numbers.

Correct:

f i rst two items

Incorrect:

1 st two items

fi rst 2 items

4.34 Ordinal Numbers

Treat ordinal numbers as you would cardinal numbers (see sections 4.3 1-4.33 ) .

Ordinal

second-order factor

the fou rth graders

the fi rst item of the 75th tr ia l

the fi rst and th i rd groups

4.35 Decimal Fractions

Cardinal base

two orders

four grades

one item, 75 tria ls

one group, three groups

Use a zero before the decimal point with numbers that are less than 1 when the statis­ tic can exceed 1 .

0.23 cm

Cohen's d = 0 .70

0 .48 s

Do not use a zero before a decimal fraction when the statistic cannot be greater than 1 (e.g., correlations, proportions, and levels of statistical significance) .

r(24) = -.43, p = .028

The number of decimal places to use in reporting the results of experiments and data analytic manipulations of the data should be governed by the following general principle: Round as much as possible while keeping prospective use and statistical pre­ cision in mind. As a general rule, fewer decimal digits are easier to comprehend than more digits; therefore, in general, it is better to round to two decimal places or to rescale the measurement (in which case effect sizes should be presented in the same metric) . For instance, a difference in distances that must be carried to four decimals to be seen when scaled in meters can be more effectively illustrated in millimeters, which

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would require only a few decimal digits to illustrate the same difference. As a rule, when properly scaled, most data can be effectively presented with two decimal digits of accuracy. Report correlations, proportions, and inferential statistics such as t, F, and X2 to two decimals.

When reporting p values, report exact p values (e.g., p = .03 1 ) to two or three dec­ imal places. However, report p values less than .001 as p < .00 1 . The tradition of reporting p values in the form p < . 1 0, p < .05, p < .01 , and so forth, was appropriate in a time when only limited tables of critical values were available. However, in tables the "p < " notation may be necessary for clarity (see section 5 . 16 ) .

4.36 Roman Numerals

If Roman numerals are part of an established terminology, do not change to Arabic numerals; for example, use Type I I error. Use Arabic, not Roman, numerals for routine seriation (e.g., Step 1 ) .

4.37 Commas in Numbers

Use commas between groups of three digits in most figures of 1 ,000 or more.

Exceptions:

page numbers binary digits serial numbers degrees of temperature acoustic frequency designations degrees of freedom

4.38 Plurals of Numbers

page 1 029

001 1 001 0

290466960

307 1 of 2000 Hz

F(24, 1 000)

To form the plurals of numbers, whether expressed as figures or as words, add s or es alone, without an apostrophe.

fours and sixes 1 9505 1 05 and 205

Metrication

4.39 Policy on Metrication

APA uses the metric system in its journals. All references to physical measurements, where feasible, should be expressed in metric units . The metric system outlined in this section is based, with some exceptions, on the International System of Units (SI ) , which is an extension and refinement of the traditional metric system and is support­ ed by the national standardizing bodies in many countries, including the United States.

In preparing manuscripts, use metric units if possible. If you use instruments that record measurements in nonmetric units, you may report the nonmetric units but also

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report the established SI equivalents in parentheses immediately after the nonmetric units.

The rods were spaced 1 9 mm apart . [Measurement was made in metric units. ] The rod was 3 ft (0 .91 m) long . [Measurement was made in nonmetric units and converted to the rounded SI equivalent.]

4.40 Style for Metric Units

Abbreviation. Use the metric symbol (see International System [SI] Base and Supplementary Units and other resources on metrication at www.apastyle.org) to express a metric unit when it appears with a numeric value (e.g., 4 m) . When a metric unit does not appear with a numeric value, spell out the unit in text (e.g., measured in meters ) and use the metric symbol in column and headings of tables to conserve space (e.g., lag in ms) .

Capital ization. Use lowercase letters when writing out full names of units (e .g . , meter, nanometer), unless the name appears in capitalized material or at the beginning of a sentence.

For the most part, use lowercase letters for symbols (e.g., cd ) , even in capitalized material. Symbols derived from the name of a person usually include uppercase letters (e.g., Gy), as do symbols for some prefixes that represent powers of 10 : exa ( E ) , peta (P ) , tera (T), giga (G ) , and mega ( M ) . (See Table 4.4 for more examples. )

Use the symbol L for liter when it stands alone (e.g., 5 L , 0 . 3 mg/L) because a low­ ercase I may be misread as the numeral one (use lowercase I for fractions of a liter: 5 m l , 9 ng/d l ) .

Plurals. Make full names of units plural when appropriate.

meters

Do not make symbols or abbreviations of units plural.

3 cm, not 3 cms

Periods. Do not use a period after a symbol, except at the end of a sentence.

Spacing. Use a space between a symbol and the number to which it refers, except for measures of angles (e.g., degrees, minutes, and seconds) .

4.5 m , 1 2 °C, bu t 45° ang le

Compound units. Use a centered dot between the symbols of a compound term formed by the multiplication of units.

Pa . s

Use a space between full names of units of a compound unit formed by the multiplica­ tion of units; do not use a centered dot.

pasca l second

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Statistica l a n d Mathematical Copy

APA Style for presenting statistical and mathematical copy reflects (a) standards of con­ tent and form agreed on in the field and (b) the requirements of clear communication.

4.4 1 Selecting Effective Presentation

Statistical and mathematical copy can be presented in text, in tables, and in figures. Detailed discussions of principles for the generation of tables, figures, and graphs can be found in Chapter 5. In deciding which approach to take, a general rule that might prove useful is

l1li if you need to present three or fewer numbers, first try using a sentence; 1119 if you need to present four to 20 numbers, first consider using a well-prepared table;

and III if you have more than 20 numbers, a graph is often more useful than a table.

Select the mode of presentation that optimizes understanding of the data by the reader. Detailed displays that allow fine-grained understanding of a data set may be more appropriate to include in online supplemental archives (see section 2 . 13 ) than in the print version of an article. Tables, figures, charts, and other graphics should be pre­ pared with the understanding that if the manuscript is accepted, they are to be pub­ lished at the editor's discretion. In any case, be prepared to submit tables and figures of complex statistical and mathematical material if an editor requests them.

4.42 References for Statistics

Do not give a reference for statistics in common use; this convention applies to most statistics used in journal articles. Do give a reference when (a ) less common statistics are used, especially those that have appeared so recently that they can be found only in journals; (b ) a statistic is used in an unconventional or a controversial way; or (c) the statistic itself is the focus of the article.

4.43 Formulas

Do not give a formula for a statistic in common use; do give a formula when the sta­ tistic or mathematical expression is new, rare, or essential to the manuscript. Presentation of equations is described in sections 4.47-4.48.

4.44 Statistics in Text

When reporting inferential statistics (e.g., t tests, F tests, X2 tests, and associated effect sizes and confidence intervals), include sufficient information to allow the reader to fully understand the analyses conducted. The data supplied, preferably in the text but possibly in an online supplemental archive depending on the magnitude of such data arrays, should allow the reader to confirm the basic reported analyses (e.g., cell means, standard devia­ tions, sample sizes, and correlations) and should enable the interested reader to construct some effect-size estimates and confidence intervals beyond those supplied in the paper per se. In the case of multilevel data, present summary statistics for each level of aggregation. What constitutes sufficient information depends on the analytic approach reported.

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For immediate recogn it ion, the omnibus test of the main effect of sentence for­ mat was statistica l ly s ign ificant, F(2 , 1 77) = 6.30, p = .002, est oi = .07 . The one­ degree-of-freedom contrast of primary interest (the mean d ifference between Cond itions 1 and 2) was also statistica l ly s ign ificant at the specified .05 leve l , t( 1 77) = 3 .5 1 , P < . 00 1 , d = 0 .65, 95% CI [0 .35 , 0 .95) .

H igh-school G PA statistica l ly predicted col lege mathematics performance, R2 = . 1 2 , F( 1 , 1 48) = 20 . 1 8, P < .00 1 , 95% CI [ .02, .22) . The four-subtest battery added to th is predict ion, R 2 = . 2 1 , tlR2 = . 09, F(4, 1 44) = 3 .56, P = . 004, 95% C I [ . 1 0, .32) . Most important, when the two preceding variables were statistica l ly accounted for, the col lege mathematics placement examination a lso exp la ined un ique variance in students' col lege mathematics performance, R 2 = . 25, tlR 2 =

. 04, F( 1 , 1 43) = 7 .63, P = . 006, 95% CI [ . 1 3, .371 .

If you present descriptive statistics in a table or figure, you do not need to repeat them in text, although you should (a ) mention the table in which the statistics can be found and (b ) emphasize particular data in the narrative when they help in interpreta­ tion of the findings.

When enumerating a series of similar statistics, be certain that the relation between the statistics and their referents is clear. Words such as respectively and in order can clarify this relationship.

Means (with standard deviations in parentheses) for Tria ls 1 through 4 were 2 .43 (0.50), 2 . 59 ( 1 . 2 1 ) . 2 .68 (0.39), and 2 .86 (0. 1 2) , respective ly.

When reporting confidence intervals, use the format 95% CI [ LL, U l] , where LL is the lower limit of the confidence interval and UL is the upper limit.

When a sequence of confidence intervals is repeated in a series or within the same paragraph and the level of confidence (e.g., 95 % ) has remained unchanged, and the meaning is clear, you do not need to repeat the 95 % CI. Every report of a confidence interval must clearly state the level of confidence. A sentence might then read, in part,

95% C is [5 .62, 8 .3 1 1 . [-2 .43, 4.3 1 1 . and [-4.29, -3 . 1 1 1 . respective ly

When a confidence interval follows reporting of a point estimate, the units of measurement should not be repeated:

M = 30. 5 cm, 99% CI [ 1 8 .0 , 43 .0)

4.45 Statistical Symbols

When using a statistical term in the narrative, use the term, not the symbol. For exam­ ple, use

The means were

not

The Ms were

S T A T I S T I C A L A N D M A T H E M A T I C A L C O p y

Symbols for population versus sample statistics. Population parameters are usually rep­ resented by Greek letters. Most estimators are represented by italicized Latin letters. For example, the population correlation would be represented as p, and the estimator would be represented as r. [Est(pl and p are also acceptable] . Some test statistics are represented by italicized Latin letters (e.g., t and F), and a few are represented by Greek letters (e.g., r) . Symbols for number of subjects. Use an uppercase, italicized N to designate the num­ ber of members in the total sample (e.g., N = 1 35) and a lowercase, italicized n to des­ ignate the number of members in a limited portion of the total sample (e.g., n = 30) .

Symbol for percentage. Use the symbol for percent only when it is preceded by a numeral. Use the word percentage when a number is not given.

found that 1 8% of the rats

determ ined the percentage of rats

Exception: In table headings and figure legends, use the symbol % to conserve space.

Standard, boldface, and ital ic type. Statistical symbols and mathematical copy in man­ uscripts are prepared with three different typefaces: standard, boldface, and italic. The same typeface is used in text, tables, and figures.

Greek letters, subscripts, and superscripts that function as identifiers (i .e. , are not variables ) and abbreviations that are not variables (e.g., log, G LM. WLS) are set in stan­ dard typeface.

J!girls, ex, �i

Symbols for vectors and matrices are set in boldface.

V, I

All other statistical symbols are set in italic type.

N, Mx, df, SSE, MSE. t. F

On occasion, an element may serve as both an abbreviation and a symbol (e.g., SO); in those cases, use the typeface that reflects the function of element (see Table 4.5 ) .

Identifying letters and symbols. As with all aspects of manuscript preparation, take care to ensure that there are no ambiguities that could lead to errors in the final production steps, particularly with mathematical and statistical symbols, non-English characters, and complex alignments (e.g., subscripts and superscripts ) . Avoid misunderstandings and corrections by preparing mathematical copy carefully.

4.46 Spacing, Alignment, and Punctuation

Space mathematical copy as you would space words: a+b= c is as difficult to read as wordswithoutspacing. Instead, type a + b = c.

Align signs and symbols carefully. Use the subscript and superscript features in your word-processing software. In most cases, type subscripts first and then super-

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Abbreviation/symbol Definition

Engl ish character set

a

AIC

ANCOVA

AN OVA

b, b;

b*, bi

B IC

CAT

CDF

CFA

C I

d

d'

df

D I F

EFA

EM

ES

f

Feri!

Fmax

F I M L

9 GLM

I n item response theory, the slope parameter

Aka ike i nformation criterion

Analysis of covariance

Ana lysis of va riance

In regression and mu lt ip le regression ana lyses, estimated va l ues of raw (unstandard ized) regression coefficients; i n item response theory, the difficu lty-severity pa rameter

Estimated va lues of standard ized regression coeffic ients in regression and mu lt ip le regression ana lyses

Bayesian information criterion

Computerized adaptive test ing

Cumulative d istribution function

Confirmatory factor ana lysis

Confidence interva l

Cohen 's measure of sample effect size for comparing two sample means

Discriminabi l ity, a measure of sensitivity i n signal detection theory

Degrees of freedom

Differential item functioning

Exploratory factor ana lys is

Expectation maximization

Effect size

Frequency

Expected frequency

Observed frequency

F d istribution , F isher's F ratio

F with V1 and V2 degrees of freedom Critica l va lue for statistical s ign ificance i n an F test

Hartley's test of homogeneity of variance

Fu l l i nformation maximum l i ke l i hood

Hedges's measure of effect size

Genera l ized l i nea r model

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Abbreviation/symbol Definition

G LS

Ho

H, (or Ha)

H LM

HSD

I RT

k

k2 KR20 LGC

LL LR

LSD

M (or X)

MAN OVA

MANCOVA

MCMC

Mdn

M LE

MS

MSE

n

N

ns

OLS

OR P Prep

PDF

q Q r

Genera l ized least squares

Nu l l hypothesis, hypothesis under test

Alternative hypothesis

H iera rchical l i near model ( ing)

Tukey's honestly s ign ificant difference

Item response theory

Coefficient of a l ienation; number of studies in a meta-analysis; number of levels i n an experimenta l design or i nd ividua l study

Coefficient of nondetermination

Kuder-R ichardson rel iab i l ity i ndex

Latent growth curve

Lower l im it (as of a C I )

L ikel i hood ratio

Least s ign ificant d ifference

Sample mean, arithmetic average

M ultivariate ana lys is of variance

Mu ltivariate ana lysis of covariance

Markov chain Monte Carlo

Median

Maximum l i ke l ihood estimator, maximum l i ke l ihood estimate

Mean square

Mean square error

Number of cases (genera l ly in a subsample)

Tota l number of cases

Not statistica l ly s ign ificant

Ord inary least squares

Odds ratio

Probabi l ity; probab i l ity of a success in a b inary tr ia l

The probabi l ity a repl ication wou ld g ive a resu l t with the same s ign as the orig ina l resu lt

Probabi l ity density function

Probabi l ity of a fa i l u re i n a b inary tria l , 1 - P Test of homogeneity of effect sizes

Estimate of the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient

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Abbreviation/symbol Definition

rab,c rajb,c)

R

R2

R MS EA

s

S

S2

SO

SE

SEM

SEM

S5

t

U UL V

W

WLS

z

The partia l corre lation of a and b with the effect of c removed The part (or semipartia l ) corre lation of a and b with the effect

of c removed from b Coefficient of determ inat ion; measure of strength of re lation­

sh ip ; est imate of the Pearson product-moment correlation squared

B iseria l corre lation

Point biseria l corre lation

Spearman rank order corre lation

M u lt ip le corre lation

Mu lt ip le correlation squared; measure of strength of association

Root mean square error of approximation

Sample standard deviation (denominator ../n - 1 )

Sample va riance-covariance matrix

Sample va riance (biased est imator) - denominator n

Sample variance (unbiased) - denominator n - 1

Standa rd deviation

Standard error

Standard error of measu rement; standard error of the mean

Structura l equation mode l ing

Sum of squares

Student's t distribution ; a statistica l test based on the Student t distribution ; the sample va lue of the t-test statistic

Generic effect s ize estimate

Hote l l i ng 's mu ltivariate test for the equa l ity of the mean vector i n two mu ltivariate populations

The Mann-Whitney test statistic

U pper l im it (as of a C I )

P i l l a i-Bart lett mu ltivariate trace criterion ; Cramer's measure of association in contingency tables

F ixed effects weights

Random effects weights

Kenda l l 's coefficient of concordance and its estimate

Weighted least squares

A standardized score; the va lue of a statistic divided by its standard error

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Abbreviation/symbol Definition

G reek character set

r o

v

t

I n statistica l hypothesis test ing, the probab i l ity of making a Type I error; Cronbach 's i ndex of i nterna l consistency (a form of rel iab i l ity)

I n statistica l hypothesis testi ng , the probab i l ity of mak ing a Type I I error ( 1 - � denotes statistica l power) ; popu lation va l ues of regression coefficients (with appropriate sub­ scripts as needed)

Goodman-Kruska l 's index of relationsh ip

Popu lation va lue of Cohen 's effect s ize ; noncentra l ity parameter in hypothesis testing and noncentra l d istributions

Measure of strength of relationsh ip i n ana lysis of va riance

I ncrement of change

Measure of strength of relationsh ip (eta squared)

Generic effect size in meta ana lysis

Roy's mu ltivariate test criterion

Cohen's measure of agreement corrected for chance agreement

Element of a factor loading matrix

Goodman-Kruska l measure of predictab i l ity

Wi l ks 's mu ltivariate test criterion

Popu lation mean ; expected va lue

Degrees of freedom

Popu lation product-moment correlation

Popu lation intraclass corre lation

Popu lation standard deviation

Popu lation variance

Population variance-covariance matrix

Kenda l l 's rank-order correlation coefficient; Hote l l i ng 's m u lti­ variate trace criterion

Standard norma l probabi l ity density function

Measure of association i n contingency tables; standard normal cumulative distribution function

The ch i-square d istribution ; a statistica l test based on the ch i-square d istribution ; the sample va lue of the ch i-square test statistic

In statistica l hypothesis testing , a statistica l contrast

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Abbreviation/symbol Definition

0)2 Strength of a statistica l relationsh ip

Mathematica l symbols

l al Absolute va lue of a

I Summation Note. Some forms are used as both abbreviations and symbols. Use the abbreviation form when referring to

the concept and the symbol form when specifying a numeric va lue. As a rule, the symbol form wil l be either

a non-Engl ish letter or an ita l icized version of the Engl ish letter form . Most abbreviations can be turned into

symbols (for use when reporting numerical estimates) by s imply ita l icizing the abbreviation . In addition, it is

acceptable to use the form est(S) or 8 to ind icate an estimator or estimate of the parameter S.

scripts (xa2) . However, place a superscript such a s the symbol for prime right next to its letter or symbol (x 'a) ' Because APA prefers to align subscripts and superscripts one under the other (stacking) for ease of reading instead of setting one to the right of the other (staggering), that is how they are normally typeset. If subscripts and superscripts should not be stacked, so indicate in a cover letter or on the manuscript.

Equations

Punctuate all equations, whether they are in the line of text or displayed (i .e . , typed on a new line) , to conform to their place in the syntax of the sentence (see the period fol­ lowing Equation 3 in section 4.48 ) . If an equation exceeds the column width of a type­ set page (approximately 55 characters, including spaces, will fit on one line in most APA journals) , the typesetter will break it. For long equations, indicate on the final ver­ sion of the accepted manuscript where breaks would be acceptable .

4.47 Equations in Text

Place short and simple equations, such as a = [ ( 1 + b)/xJ 1 /2, in the line of text. Equations in the line of text should not project above or below the line; for example, the equa­ tion above would be difficult to set in the line of text if it were in this form:

a = � 1 :b . To present fractions in the line of text, use a slanted line (I) and appropriate paren­

theses, brackets, and braces: Use ( ) first, then [( ) ] , and finally ([I ) ) } . Use parentheses and brackets to avoid ambiguity: Does alb + c mean (a/b) + c or a/(b + c) ?

4.48 Displayed Equations

Display simple equations if they must be numbered for later reference. Display all com­ plex equations. Number all displayed equations consecutively, with the number in parentheses near the right margin of the page:

_ E Q U A T I O N S

(3)

When referring to numbered equations, write out the reference; for example, write Equation 3 (do not abbreviate as Eq. 3), or write the third equation.

4.49 Preparing Statistical and Mathematical Copy

If possible, type all signs and symbols in mathematical copy. Supply as camera-ready copy any special symbols that cannot be produced by a word-processing program. Type fences (i.e., parentheses, brackets, and braces) , uppercase and lowercase letters, punctuation, subscripts and superscripts, and all other elements exactly as you want them to appear in the published article. Follow the conventions for the use of symbols, equations, and reporting results presented in the earlier sections of this chapter.

Displaying Results

ince the last edition of the Publication Manual, few areas have been affected by tech­ nological developments more dramatically than the methods available for the dis­ play of results of experimentation and inquiry-tables, graphs, charts, maps, draw­

ings, and photographs. Almost all displays are now the results of electronic manipulation of basic data-be it with word-processing programs, spreadsheet programs, statistical packages, or highly specialized software for creating digital images. These changes have greatly increased the flexibility that authors have for effectively displaying results.

Tables and figures enable authors to present a large amount of information efficient­ ly and to make their data more comprehensible. Tables usually show numerical values or textual information (e.g., lists of stimulus words) arranged in an orderly display of columns and rows. A figure may be a chart, a graph, a photograph, a drawing, or any other illustration or nontextual depiction. At times the boundary between tables and fig­ ures may be unclear; however, tables are almost always characterized by a row-column structure. Any type of illustration other than a table is referred to as a figure.

In this chapter, we discuss the purposes that data displays can serve and provide guidance on designing and preparing data displays so that they communicate most effectively. We provide specific guidance on formatting and constructing tables and fig­ ures, along with a number of illustrative examples.

General G u ida nce on Tables and Figures

5.0 1 Purposes of Data Displays

Data displays can serve several purposes:

• exploration: the data contain a message, and you would like to learn what it is (exploratory data analysis and data mining techniques are examples of displays that are principally exploratory) ;

III

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II communication: you have discovered the meaning contained in the data and want to tell others about it (this is the traditional purpose of most data displays in scientific documents) ;

II calculation: the display allows you to estimate some statistic or function of the data (nomographs are the archetype of this );

II1II storage: you can store data in a display for retrieval later, including the results of a study for later use in a meta-analysis (historically, this role has been fulfilled by tables, but figures sometimes serve this purpose more efficiently); and

II decoration: data displays attract attention, and you may choose to use them to make your manuscript more visually appealing (as in newspapers and other media reports) .

In scientific publication, the communication function of graphical displays dominates; however, other features (e.g., storage) may be useful in a graphical representation.

5.02 Design and Preparation of a Data Display

The first step in preparing a display for submission is to determine the purposes of the display and the relative importance of those purposes. For example, the detail required for a storage display may conflict with the clarity required for a communicative one . Once you have decided on a display's hierarchy of purposes, choose the template best designed for its primary purpose-the canonical form of a display. Such a display (e.g. , a scatterplot) has shown itself to be flexible (it works for many kinds of data), robust (it works reasonably well even when it is not exactly suitable) , and adaptive ( it shows a capacity for adaptation to make it suitable) . Further, the use of canonical forms sim­ plifies the task of readers trying to make sense of a display because they can rely on past experience with the form.

The preparation of graphic materials requires careful attention to organization and content. Graphical elements need to be edited with the same care as the textual ele­ ments of a manuscript. Changes in text often demand changes in graphical elements, and failure to edit graphical materials and to sharpen the focus of the display is a major shortcoming in much scientific writing.

Design your graphical display with the reader in mind; that is, remember the com­ municative function of the display.

II1II Place items that are to be compared next to each other. II Place labels so that they clearly abut the elements they are labeling. III Use fonts that are large enough to be read without the use of magnification. II Include all of the information needed to understand it within the graphical image­

avoid novel abbreviations, use table notes, and label graphical elements. II Keep graphical displays free of extraneous materials, no matter how decorative

those materials may make the graphic look.

Communication is the primary purpose of the graphic. This does not mean, however, that well-designed, aesthetically pleasing graphics are not important. An attractive graphical display makes a scientific article a more effective communication device.

5.03 Graphical Versus Textual Presentation

Be selective in choosing how many graphical elements to include in your paper. First, a reader may have difficulty sorting through a large number of tables and figures and

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may lose track of your message. Second, a disproportionately large number of tables and figures compared with a small amount of text can cause problems with the layout of typeset pages; text that is constantly broken up with tables will be hard for the read­ er to follow. Third, graphical presentations are not always optimal for effective com­ munication. For example, the results of many standard statistical significance tests can often be effectively presented in text:

The one-way ANOVA, F( 1 , 1 36) = 4. 86, MSE = 3 .97, P = . 029, T)2 = . 03, demon­ strated statistica l ly s ign ificant d ifferences between the two groups, as theory would d ictate.

Information that used to be routinely presented in tables (e.g., analysis of variance [ANOVA] tables) is now routinely presented in text.

5.04 Formatting Tables and Figures

Most manuscripts are now submitted electronically; therefore, all the elements of the manuscript must be in electronic format. These elements may be produced in many different file formats (e.g. , .doc, .jpg, .pps, .pdf) , and any publisher may limit the for­ mats it accepts. Most tables are constructed with the tables feature of the word-pro­ cessing program used to generate the manuscript text. However, tables are sometimes cut and pasted from computer outputs (rarely recommended) or may be PDF images created from scans of tables prepared in other ways. When tables are prepared with standard word-processing programs, the text can be converted directly into typo­ graphic files, thereby lowering the probability of typesetting errors. Figures are gen­ erally submitted in a variety of formats, as is necessitated by the multiple ways in which they are produced. Often, figures such as graphs and charts are initially pro­ duced with presentation software such as Microsoft PowerPoint. Photographic ele­ ments are generally limited to specific image formats that allow for clear resolution of the image in its printed application. As a rule, figures are reproduced in the print version of articles as they are received from the author (following any editorial changes approved by the editor) .

For publishers that offer online supplemental archives, carefully delineate the materials that will appear with the article from those that will be placed in the online supplemental archive (see section 2 . 13 ) . Because of the relatively high cost of color reproduction, include it only when the color representation adds significantly to the understanding of the material. If color representation is not crucial for immediate understanding, you may consider placing it online as supplemental material.

5 .05 Table and Figure Numbers

Number all tables and figures with Arabic numerals in the order in which they are first mentioned in text, regardless of whether a more detailed discussion of the table or fig­ ure occurs later in the paper. Do not use suffix letters to number tables and figures; that is, label them as Table S, Table 6, and Table 7 or Figure S, Figure 6, and Figure 7 instead of S, Sa, and Sb. If the manuscript includes an appendix with tables or figures, identify those elements of the appendix with capital letters and Arabic numerals (e.g., Table A1 is the first table of Appendix A or of a sole appendix that is not labeled with a letter; Figure C2 is the second figure of Appendix C) .

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5 .06 Permission to Reproduce Data Displays

If you reproduced or adapted a table, figure, questionnaire, or test item from a copy­ righted source, you must obtain written permission for print and electronic reuse from the copyright holder and give credit in the table or figure caption to the origi­ nal author and copyright holder. A number of commercial instruments-for example, intelligence tests and projective measures-are highly protected. Permission is required, and may be denied, to republish even one item from such instruments. Any reproduced table (or figure) or part thereof must be accompanied by a note at the bot­ tom of the reprinted table (or in the figure caption) giving credit to the original author and to the copyright holder (see section 2 .12 for the correct wording of copyright per­ mission footnotes ) . For detailed information on copyright and permissions, see sec­ tion 6 . 10 .

Tables

When planning tables for inclusion in a manuscript, determine (a) the data readers will need to understand the discussion and (b ) the data necessary to provide the "sufficient set of statistics" (see section 4.44) to support the use of the inferential methods used.

5.07 Conciseness in Tables

Limit the content of your tables to essential materials. Tables with surplus elements are less effective than lean tables. The principle of conciseness is relevant not only for text tables but also for tables to be placed in online supplemental archives. Although supplemental tables may be longer and more detailed than text tables, they must be directly and clearly related to the content of the article ( see section 2 . 1 3 ) . Tables should be integral to the text but should be designed so that they can be understood in isolation.

5.08 Table Layout

The basic components of a prototypical table are shown in Table 5 . 1 , including the technical term, location, and definition of each element.

Table layout should be logical and easily grasped by the reader. Table entries that are to be compared should be next to one another. Following this principle, in gener­ al, different indices (e.g., means, standard deviations, sample sizes) should be segregat­ ed into different parts or lines of tables. Position variable and condition labels in close proximity to the values of the variable to facilitate comparison. Table 5 .2 illustrates these principles.

All tables are meant to show something specific; for example, tables that com­ municate quantitative data are effective only when the data are arranged so that their meaning is obvious at a glance (Wainer, 1 997) . Often, the same data can be arranged in different ways to emphasize different features of the data . In Table 5 . 3 , the same factor loading data are displayed in two different ways. The first example emphasizes the factor structure of the two test batteries by keeping the subscales of the batteries adjacent to each other. The second arrangement of the same data

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III Table 5.1 . Basic Com ponents of a Ta ble _ . . . . �Table X

_ . . . . � Numbers of Children With and Without Proof of Parental Citizenship

Gi rls

rade With Without

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . � Wave 1

3 280 240 281

4 297 251 290 264

5 301 260 306 221

Tota l 878 751 877 7 1 7

Wave 2 <C(" '_ 3 201 1 89 2 1 0 1 99 <C( . . . . ..: 4 2 1 4 1 94 236 2 1 0

5 221 2 1 6 239 2 1 3

Tota l g 636 599 685 622 � <C( . . :

Note. General notes to a table appear here, including . . . . . � defin itions of abbreviations (see section 5. 1 6) .

aA specific note appears on a separate l i ne below any genera l notes; subsequent specific notes are run in (see section 5 . 1 6) .

* A probabi l ity note (p val ue) appears on a separate l ine below any specific notes; subsequent probabi l ity notes are run in (see section 5. 1 6 for more detai ls on content) .

emphasizes the nature of the factors by grouping the subscales of the test batteries according to the pattern of the factor loadings . Which arrangement is better depends on your purpose.

5.09 Standard Forms

Some data tables have certain standard (canonical) forms. The advantage of using the canonical form is that the reader generally knows where to look in the table for cer­ tain kinds of information. In some situations, one may want to use a format other than

T A B L E S

Table 5.2. S a m p l e of Effective Ta ble Layo ut

Table X

Proportion of Errors in Younger and Older Groups

Younger Older

Level of d ifficu lty n M (SD) 95% CI n M (SD) 95% C I

Low 1 2 .05 ( .08) [ .02, . 1 1 1 1 8 . 1 4 ( . 1 5) [ . 08, .221

Moderate 1 5 .05 ( .07) [ .02 , . 1 01 1 2 . 1 7 ( . 1 5) [ .08, . 281

H igh 1 6 . 1 1 ( . 1 0) [ . 07, . 1 71 1 4 .26 ( . 2 1 ) [ . 1 5, .391

Note. C I = confidence interva l .

the canonical table form to make a specific point or to stress certain relationships . The judicious use of nonstandard forms can be effective but must always be motivated by the special circumstances of the data array. When using nonstandard forms, make cer­ tain that labeling is extremely clear because most readers will assume that the canoni­ cal form is being used. Section 5 . 1 8 includes examples of standard tables for present­ ing several types of data.

5. 1 0 Relation of Tables and Text

D iscussing tables i n text. An informative table supplements-rather than dupli­ cates-the text. In the text, refer to every table and tell the reader what to look for. Discuss only the table's highlights; if you find yourself discussing every item of the table in the text, the table is unnecessary. Similarly, if additional tables are to be included in online supplemental archives, mention their existence only briefly in the print version of the article. Tables designated as supplemental materials must be accompanied by enough information to be completely understood on their own ( see section 2 . 1 3 ) .

Citing tables. In the text, refer to tables by their number:

as shown in Table 8, the responses were provided by ch i ldren with pretra in ing . . .

Do not write "the table above" (or below) or "the table on page 32, " because the posi­ tion and page number of a table cannot be determined until the pages are typeset.

5. 1 1 Relation Between Tables

Consider combining tables that repeat data. Ordinarily, identical columns or rows of data should not appear in two or more tables. Be consistent in the presentations of all tables within a manuscript to facilitate comparisons. Use similar formats, titles, and headings, and use the same terminology throughout (e.g., response time or reaction time, not both) .

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Table 5.3. Sample Factor Loadi ngs Table (With Rotation Method Specified) The fol lowing table is formatted to emphasize the structure of the test batteries .

Table X

Factor Loadings for Exploratory Factor Analysis With Varimax Rotation of Personality

Pathology Scales

Emotional Sca le I ntroversion Dysregu lation Pecu l ia rity

SPO Constricted Affect .77 .33 . 2 1 Excessive Socia l Anxiety .43 .52 .29 Ideas of Reference -.08 . 1 7 .67 No Friends .84 . 1 9 . 1 3 Odd Be l iefs -.03 . 1 3 .50 Odd Behavior .23 . 1 9 .56 Odd Speech . 1 5 .34 .56 Unusua l Perceptions .09 . 1 4 .76

DAPP Submissiveness .24 .70 . 1 1 Cogn itive Distort ion .26 .70 .36 Identity Problems .52 .58 . 1 6 Affective Lab i l ity . 1 1 .73 .34 Restricted Expression .69 . 3 1 . 02 Passive Oppositiona l ity .25 .70 . 1 2 I ntimacy Problems .63 . 1 8 .03 Anxiousness .24 .83 . 1 8 Conduct Problems .27 . 1 0 . 24

Suspic iousness .39 .36 .23

Socia l Avoidance .59 .67 . 1 0 I nsecure Attachment .04 .58 . 26 Self-Harm .30 .38 .28

Chapman Magical Ideation . 1 2 . 1 7 .72 Socia l Anhedonia .78 . 04 .26 Perceptua l Aberrations . 1 2 .25 .49 Physical Anhedonia .61 .05 -. 1 5

Note. Factor loadings > .40 are in boldface. SPQ = Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire; DAPP = Dimensional Assessment of Personal ity Pathology-Basic Questionnaire .

(continued)

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.. Tabie 5.3. Sample Factor Loadi ngs Table (contin ued) The fol lowing table is formatted to emphasize the structure of the factors .

Table X

Factor Loadings for Exploratory Factor Analysis With Varimax Rotation of Personality

Pathology Scales

Emotiona l Sca le I ntrovers ion Dysregu lation Pecu l ia rity

s pa No Friends .84 . 1 9 . 1 3 Chapman Social Anhedonia .78 . 04 .26 s pa Constricted Affect .77 .33 . 2 1 DAPP Restricted Expression .69 . 3 1 .02 DAPP I nt imacy Problems .63 . 1 8 . 03 Chapman Physical Anhedonia .61 .05 -. 1 5 DAPP Socia l Avoidance .59 .67 . 1 0 DAPP Identity Problems .52 .58 . 1 6 spa Excessive Socia l Anxiety .43 .52 .29 DAPP Anxiousness .24 .83 . 1 8 DAPP Affective Labi l ity . 1 1 .73 .34 DAPP Cogn itive Distortion .26 .70 .36 DAPP Passive Oppositiona l ity .25 .70 . 1 2 DAPP Submissiveness .24 .70 . 1 1 DAPP I nsecure Attachment .04 .58 .26 DAPP Self-Harm .30 .38 .28

s pa Unusua l Perceptions .09 . 1 4 .76 Chapman Magical Ideation . 1 2 . 1 7 .72 s pa I deas of Reference -.08 . 1 7 .67 s pa Odd Speech . 1 5 .34 .56 spa Odd Behavior .23 . 1 9 .56 spa Odd Bel iefs -.03 . 1 3 .50 Chapman Perceptua l

Aberrations . 1 2 .25 .49 DAPP Suspic iousness .39 .36 .23

DAPP Conduct Problems .27 . 1 0 .24

Note. Factor loadings > .40 are in boldface. SPQ = Schizotypal Personal ity Questionnaire; DAPP = Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology-Basic Questionnaire. Adapted from " A Dimensional Model of Personal ity

Disorder: Incorporating OSM Cluster A Characteristics, " by J. L. Tackett, A. L. Si lberschmidt, R . F. Krueger, and S. R. Sponheim, 2008, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1 1 7, p. 457. Copyright 2008 by the American Psychological Association.

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5. 1 2 Table Titles

Give every table a brief but clear and explanatory title. The basic content of the table should be easily inferred from the title.

Too general:

Table 1

Relation Between Col/ege Majors and Performance [It is unclear what data are presented in the table.]

Too detailed:

Table 1

Mean Performance Scores on Test A, Test B, and Test C of Students With

Psychology, Physics, English, and Engineering Majors [This duplicates informa­ tion in the headings of the table.]

Good title:

Mean Performance Scores of Students With Different Col/ege Majors

Abbreviations that appear in the headings or the body of a table sometimes can be parenthetically explained in the table title.

Hit and False-Alarm (FA) Proportions in Experiment 2

Explain abbreviations that require longer explanations or that do not relate to the table title in a general note to the table (see section 5 . 1 6 and Table 5 .2 ) . Do not use a specific footnote to clarify an element of the title.

5. 1 3 Table Headings

A table classifies related items and enables the reader to compare them. Data form the body of the table. Headings establish your organization of the data and identify the columns of data beneath them. Like a table title, a heading should be brief and should not be many more characters in length than the widest entry.

Poor:

Grade level

3

4

5

Better:

G rade

3

4

5

You may use standard abbreviations and symbols for nontechnical terms (e.g., no. for number, % for percent) and for statistics (e.g., M, SD, x2, or any other abbrevia­ tion in Table 4.4) in table headings without explanation. Abbreviations of technical terms, group names, and the like must be explained in the table title or in a note to the

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table (see section 5 . 12 ) . Abbreviations may also be explained parenthetically following entries in the stub column.

Each column of a table must have a heading, including the stub column or stub, which is the leftmost column of the table (see Table 5 . 1 for illustration of technical terms) . Subordination within the stub is easier to comprehend if you indent the stub items rather than create an additional column (e.g., Tables 5.4 and 5 .5 ) . The stub usu­ ally lists the major independent or predictor variables. In Table 5 . 1 , for instance, the stub lists the grades. Number elements only when they appear in a correlation matrix (see Table 5 .6 ) or if they are referred to by number in text.

All headings identify items below them, not across from them. The headings just above the body of the table (called column heads and column spanners) identify the entries in the vertical columns in the body of the table. A column head covers just one column; a column spanner covers two or more columns, each with its own column

III Table 5.4. Sa m p l e Ta ble With Deta i l ed Specificati ons of Com plex Exper imenta l Designs

Table X

Summary of Experimental Designs

Group

Experiment 1 B lock

U nblock i ntensity

U nblock number

Experiment 2

Experiment 3

Experiment 4a

Experiment 4b

Experiment 5

Stage I

A+

A+

A+

A+ C+ A+ B+ C+ D++ A+ C+ A+ C+ A+ C+

Stage I I

AB+ CD+ AB+ CD+ AB++ CD++ AB+

AB+

AB++

AB+ CD++

Test

B vs . D

AD vs . BC

AD vs . BC A, B , C, D

AD vs . BC

AD vs . BC

AD vs . BC A , B , C, D

Note. A, B, C, and 0 were four conditioned stimul i : a clicker, tone, l ight, and flashing l ight, respectively (counterba lanced) . + denotes a O.4-mA shock unconditioned stimulus; ++ denotes two 0 .4-mA shocks; + denotes a O.S-mA unconditioned stimulus. Adapted from " Unblocking in Pavlovian Fear Condition ing , " by

L. Bradfield and G . P. McNal ly, 200S, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 34, p. 259. Copyright 200S by the American Psychological Association .

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III Table 5.5. Sa m p l e Ta ble Display of a Sample's Cha racteristics

Table X

Individual and Family Characteristics as a Percentage of the Sample (Census Data in

Parentheses)

Mother Father Ch i ld Characteristic (n = 750) (n = 466) (n = 750)

Self-identity Mexican 77 .2 7 1 .0 41 .0 Mexican American 22 .8 29 .0 59.0

Nativitya

Mexico 74. 2 (38 .2 ) 80 .0 (44.2) 29 .7 U n ited States 25 .8 (61 .8) 20 .0 (55.8) 70 .3

Language preferenceb

Eng l ish 30.2 (52 .7) 23 .2 (52 .7) 82 . 5 (70 .0) Span ish 69.8 (48.3) 76.8 (48 .3) 1 7 . 5 (30 .0)

Education level completeda

8th grade or less 29 .2 (30 .7) 30.2 (33 .4) Some h igh school 1 9 . 5 (20 .9) 22 .4 (22 .6 ) 1 2th g rade 23 . 1 (22 .5) 20 .9 (20 .7 ) Some col lege/vocationa l 22 .0 ( 1 9 .2 ) 20 .2 ( 1 7 . 1 )

tra in ing Bachelor's or h igher 6 .2 (6.8) 6 .2 (6 .2)

Employment statusc Employed 63 .6 (46.6) 96.6 (97 . 1 ) Unemployed 1 1 .2 (3 . 5) 3 .5 (2 .9) Housewife 25 .2

Note. Adapted from " Sampl ing a n d Recruitment in Studies of Cultura l I nfluences o n Adjustment: A Case

Study With Mexican Americans, " by M. W. Roosa, F. F. Liu, M. Torres, N. A. Gonza les, G. P. Knight, and

D . Saenz, 2008, Journal of Family Psychology, 22, p. 300. Copyright 2008 by the American Psychological

Association .

·Census data are for a l l women or men and are not l imited to parents or adu lts i n our age group. bThe most

comparable census data for mothers and fathers are for a l l adu lts 1 8 and older and for ch i ldren are for

1 5- to 1 7-year-olds. cCensus data are for all women, not just mothers, whereas the male data are l im ited to

husbands.

head. Headings stacked in this way are called decked heads. Often decked heads can be used to avoid repetition of words in column heads (see Table 5 . 1 ) . If possible, do not use more than two levels of decked heads.

Incorrect:

Tempora l lobe: Left Right

Wordy:

Left R ight tempora l tempora l

lobe lobe

Correct:

Tem pora l lobe

Left R ight

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Table 5.6. Sa m ple Ta ble of Correlations i n Which the Va l ues for Two Sam ples Are Presented

Table X

Summary of Intercorrelations, Means, and Standard Deviations for Scores on the ass, BDI, SAFE, and MEIM as a Function of Race

Measure 2 3 4 M SO

1 . BSS .54* .29* -.23* 1 .3 1 4.32

2 . BD I . 54* .34* -. 1 4* 8 .33 7 .76

3 . SAFE . 1 9* .30* -.074 47 . 1 8 1 3 .24

4 . M E I M -.09 -. 1 1 -.08 47 . 1 9 6.26

M 1 . 50 9 . 1 3 39.07 37.78

SO 3 .84 7 .25 1 3. 1 7 7 .29

Note. I ntercorrelations for African American participants ( n = 296) are presented above the diagonal, and intercorrelations for European American participants (n = 1 63) are presented below the d iagonal . Means and standard deviations for African American students are presented in the vertical columns, and means and standard deviations for European Americans are presented in the horizonta l rows. For a l l scales, h igher scores are ind icative of more extreme responding in the direction of the construct assessed. BSS = Beck Suicide Scale; BDI = Beck Depression I nventory; SAFE = Societal , Attitudinal , Famil ia l , and Environmental

Acculturative Stress Scale; M E I M = M ultigroup Ethnic Identity Measure. Adapted from "An Empirica l I nvestigation of Acculturative Stress and Ethnic Identity as Moderators for Depression and Suicidal Ideation in College Students, " by R. L. Walker, L. R. Wingate, E . M. Obasi, and T. E. Joiner, 2008, Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 14, p. 78. Copyright 2008 by the American Psychological Association.

*p < .01 .

A few tables may require table spanners in the body of the table. These table span­ ners cover the entire width of the body of the table, allowing for further divisions with­ in the table (see Tables 5 . 1 and 5 . 15 ) . Also, table spanners can be used to combine two tables provided they have identical column heads.

Any item within a column should be syntactically as well as conceptually comparable with the other items in that column, and all items should be described by the column head:

Nonparallel:

Condit ion

Funct ional psychotic

Dri nks to excess

Character d isorder

Parallel:

Cond ition

Functional psychosis

Alcohol ism

Character d isorder

Stub heads, column heads, and column spanners should be singular unless they refer to groups (e.g., Children), but table spanners may be plural. Capitalize only the first letter of the first word of all headings (column heads, column spanners, stub

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• Table 5.7. Sa m p l e Ta ble of Resu lts of Fitt ing M athe m atica l Models

Table X

Estimates [and 95 % Confidence Intervals1 for the Parameters of the Simplified

Conjoint Recognition Model for Experiment 5

List condition

Parameter Target-fi rst Target-last Control L\Gtdf; 2) a .43 .28 .24 4.26

[ .30, . 571 [ . 1 6, .401 [ . 1 0, .381

b .26 .27 . 1 9 4 .68 [ . 1 9, .321 [ . 2 1 , .331 [ . 1 3, .241

Gt . 29 .38 .28 0.39 [ .00, .631 [ . 1 4, .631 [ .03, . 531

Gr .43 .70 .72 4 .86 [ . 1 9 , .671 [ . 55, .841 [ . 56, .881

� .89 .8 1 .86 3 .20 [ .83 , . 941 [ .75, .871 [ .80, .9 1 1

V; .72a .05b .23b 20 .89 [61 , .821 [ . 00, .421 [ .00, .621

P

. 1 2

. 1 0

.82

. 09

.20

< .0 1

Note. Parameter estimates in each row that share subscripts d o not differ sign ificantly. a = probabi l ity of

guessing "target" ; b = probabil ity of guessing that an item is either a target or a related probe; Gt = probabil­ ity of retrieving a target's gist trace given a target probe; Gr = probabi l ity of retrieving a target's g ist trace given a related probe; V. = probabi l ity of retrieving a target's verbatim trace given a target probe; V, = proba­ bi l ity of retrieving a target's verbatim trace given a related probe. Adapted from "A Simpl ified Conjoint

Recogn ition Paradigm for the Measurement of Gist and Verbatim Memory, " by C. Stah l and K. C . Klauer,

2008, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory. and Cognition. 34, p. 579. Copyright 2008 by the American Psychological Association .

heads, and table spanners) and word entries. Also, capitalize the first letter of each word of all proper nouns and the first word following a colon or em dash.

5. 1 4 Table Body

Decimal values. The table body contains the data. Express numerical values to the number of decimal places that the precision of measurement justifies (see section 4.35 ), and if possible, carry all comparable values to the same number of decimal places.

Empty cells. If the point of intersection between a row and a column (called a cell) can­ not be filled because data are not applicable, leave the cell blank. If a cell cannot be filled because data were not obtained or are not reported, insert a dash in that cell and explain the use of the dash in the general note to the table. By convention, a dash in

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the main diagonal position of a correlation matrix (see Table 5 .6 ) indicates the corre­ lation of an item with itself, which must be 1 .00, and is simply replaced by the dash. If you need to explain that an element of a table is unavailable or inapplicable, use a specific note rather than a dash (see section 5 . 16 ) .

Conciseness. Be selective in your presentation. Do not include columns of data that can be calculated easily from other columns:

Not concise:

No. responses

F i rst Second

Participant tria l tria l Tota l M

5 7 1 2 6

The example could be improved by giving either the number of responses per trial or the total number of responses, whichever is more important to the discussion, and by not including the column with the mean because its calculation is simple.

5. 1 5 Confidence Intervals in Tables

When a table includes point estimates, for example, means, correlations, or regression slopes, it should also, where possible, include confidence intervals. You may report confidence intervals in tables either by using brackets, as in text (see section 4 .10 ) and in Table 5 .8 , or by giving lower and upper limits in separate columns, as in Table 5 .9 . In every table that includes confidence intervals, state the confidence level, for exam­ ple, 95 % . It is usually best to use the same confidence level throughout a paper.

5. 1 6 Table Notes

Tables may have three kinds of notes placed below the body of the table: general notes, specific notes, and probability notes.

A general note qualifies, explains, or provides information relating to the table as a whole and ends with an explanation of any abbreviations, symbols, and the like. Included within general notes would be any acknowledgments that a table is repro­ duced from another source. General notes are designated by the word Note ( italicized) followed by a period. (See Tables 5 . 1 and 5 .4, among others. )

Note. Factor loadings greater than .45 are shown in boldface. M = match process; N = non match process .

A specific note refers to a particular column, row, or cell. Specific notes are indi­ cated by superscript lowercase letters (e.g., a. b. c ) . Within the headings and table body, order the superscripts from left to right and from top to bottom, starting at the top left.

Table notes, general or specific, apply only to that specific table and not to any other table. Begin each table's first footnote with a superscript lowercase a ( see Table 5 .5 ) .

an = 25 . bThis participant d id not complete the tria ls .

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II Table 5.8. Sa m p l e Ta b l e I nc l u d i n g Co nfidence I nterva ls With B rackets

Table X

Weight Status, Body Dissatisfaction, and Weight Control Behaviors at Time 1 and

Suicidal Ideation at Time 2

Adjusted for demograph ic

Unadjusteda va riab lesb

Variab le OR 95% CI OR 95 % C I

Weight status Young men 0 .97 [0.78, 1 . 2 1 1 0 .94 [0 .75, 1 . 1 91

Young women 1 .06 [0 .88, 1 .261 1 .02 [0 .85, 1 . 231

Body dissatisfaction Young men 0 .88 [0. 50, 1 . 541 0 .99 [0. 56, 1 .751

Young women 1 .06 [0.77, 1 .461 1 .02 [0 .74, 1 .421

UWCB Young men 0 .81 [0.54, 1 .241 0 .77 [0 . 50, 1 . 1 91

Young women 0 .89 [0.65, 1 . 2 1 1 0 .93 [0 .68, 1 . 271

EWCB Young men 1 .36 [0. 55, 3 .361 1 .73 [0 .69, 4.371

Young women 1 .98 [ 1 .34, 2 .931 2 .00 [ 1 .34, 2 . 991

Note. OR = odds ratio; C I = confidence interva l ; UWCB = unhea lthy weight control behaviors; EWCB = extreme weight control behaviors. Adapted from "Are Body Dissatisfaction, Eating Disturbance, and Body

Mass Index Predictors of Su icidal Behavior in Adolescents? A Longitudinal Study, " by S . Crow, M. E. Eisenberg, M. Story, and D. Neumark-Sztainer, 2008, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 76, p. 890. Copyright 2008 by the American Psychological Association . "Four weight-related variables entered simultaneously. bAdjusted for race, socioeconomic status, and age

group.

A probability note indicates how asterisks and other symbols are used in a table to indicate p values and thus the results of tests of statistical hypothesis testing. For results of statistical significance testing in text and tables, report the exact probabilities to two or three decimal places (e.g., p = .023 as opposed to p < .05; see Table 5 .7 and section 4.35 ) . When displaying the result in graphical modes (including certain tables such as tables of correlation matrices ) , it may be difficult to follow this recommendation with­ out making the graphic unruly. Therefore, when displaying results graphically, revert to reporting in the "p < " style if using exact probabilities would make it difficult to comprehend the graphic. When discussing the results in the text, use exact probabili­ ties regardless of the display mode. Include a probability note only when relevant to specific data within the table.

If the "p < " style is required, asterisks indicate ranges of p values. Assign the same number of asterisks from table to table within your paper, such as *p < .05, * *p < .01 , and * * *p < .001 . Do not use any value smaller than * * *p < .001 .

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Table 5.9. Sa m pl e Ta b le I nc l u d i ng Co nfidence I nterva ls With U pper and Lower L im its

Table X

Estimated Distance (em) for Letter and Digit Stimuli

Letters

Dig its

Condition M (SD)

1 4 .5 (28.6)

3 1 .8 (33 .2)

Note. C I = confidence interva l ; LL = lower l imit, UL = upper l imit.

LL

5.4

2 1 . 2

95% C I

UL

23.6

42 .4

If you need to distinguish between one-tailed and two-tailed tests in the same table, use an asterisk for the two-tailed p values and an alternate symbol (e.g., dagger) for the one-tailed p values.

* p < . 05, two-ta i led . * * p < . 0 1 , two-ta i led . t p < . 05, one-ta i led . tt p < . 0 1 , one-ta i led.

To indicate statistically significant differences between two or more table entries­ for example, means that are compared with procedures such as a Tukey test-use low­ ercase subscripts (see Table 5 .7 ) . Explain the use of the subscripts in the table note ( see the following sample table notes ) .

Note. Means sharing a common subscript a re not statistica l ly d ifferent at a = . 0 1 accord ing to the Tukey HSD procedure .

Order the notes to a table in the following sequence: general note, specific note, probability note (see Table 5 . 1 ) .

Note. The participants . . . responses.

an = 25. bn = 42. *p < .05. * *p < . 0 1 .

Each type of note begins flush left (i .e., no paragraph indentation) on a new line below the table. The first specific note begins flush left on a new line under the gener­ al note; subsequent specific notes are run in (lengthy specific notes may be set on sep­ arate lines when typeset) . The first probability note begins flush left on a new line; sub­ sequent probability notes are run in.

Notes can be useful for eliminating repetition from the body of a table. Certain types of information may be appropriate either in the table or in a note. To determine the placement of such material, remember that clearly and efficiently organized data enable the reader to focus on the data. Thus, if probability values or subsample sizes are numerous, use a column rather than many notes. Conversely, if a row or column con­ tains few entries (or the same entry), eliminate the column by adding a note to the table:

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Poor: Better:

Group n Groupa

Anxious 1 5 Anxious Depressed 1 5 Depressed

Contro l 1 5 Control

an = 1 5

5. 1 7 Ruling of Tables

Limit the use of rules (i.e., lines) in a table to those that are necessary for clarity. Appropriately positioned white space can be an effective substitute for rules; for exam­ ple, long, uninterrupted columns of numbers or words are more readable if a horizontal line of space is inserted after every fourth or fifth entry. In the manuscript, use spacing between columns and rows and strict alignment to clarify relationships within a table.

Tables may be submitted either single- or double-spaced. Consider the readability of the table during the review process in making your decision.

5. 1 8 Presenting Data in Specific Types of Tables

Complex experimental designs can be summarized in compact tables, making the entire structure of the experiment clear without the need for lengthy textual descrip­ tions (see Table 5 .4 ) .

Important characteristics of a sample can be concisely summarized in a well-organ­ ized table. Providing comparable census data can help the reader understand the gen­ eralizability of the results (see Table 5 .5 ) .

Key psychometric properties of the major variables can be easily summarized in a table ( see Table 5 . 10 ) . Clearly state the index of reliability (or other psychometric property) being used and the sample on which the reliability was based (if different from the study sample) .

Table 5 . 1 1 shows one-degree-of-freedom within-subject contrasts within a larger set of effects, including both confidence intervals and effect sizes. In Table 5 .6, note the compact, yet information-packed, form in which the intercorrelations among the vari­ ables for two different groups are presented in the same table-one group below the main diagonal, the other above the main diagonal. Means and standard deviations for the two groups are similarly positioned, with the Group 1 means and standard devia­ tions given in the last two data columns and those for Group 2 in the last two data rows. Construction of a correlation matrix of this type not only is concise in terms of the amount of page space used but also makes the visual comparison of correlational elements much easier.

Clearly label the type of regression (e.g., hierarchical) and type of regression coef­ ficients (raw or standardized) being reported (see Tables 5 . 12 and 5 . 1 3 ) . For hierarchi­ cal and other sequential regressions, be sure to provide the increments of change (see section 4.44) .

In model-comparison tables, ensure that the competing models are clearly identi­ fied and that the comparisons are clearly specified. Comparative fit indices can be use­ ful for the reader (see Tables 5 . 14 and 5 . 15 ) .

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III Table 5.10. Sam ple Table Display of Psychometric Properties of Key O utcome Va riab les

Table X

Psychometric Properties of the Major Study Variables

Range

Variab le n M SO ex. Potentia l Actual S kew

Dispositiona l

affectivity

Positive 560 3.27 0.77 .91 1 -5 1 .0-5.0 -0 .36

N egative 563 2.26 0.79 .91 1 -5 1 .0-4.7 0 .63

Socia l support

Mothe r 1 60 4. 1 7 1 .08 .92 1 -5 1 .0-5.0 -1 .54

Partner 474 4.03 1 . 1 9 .94 1 -5 1 .0-5.0 -1 .26

Fr iend 396 4.37 0.89 .90 1 -5 1 .0-5.0 -1 .94

Socia l confl ict

M othe r 1 59 1 .22 0.47 .81 1 -5 1 .0-3 .6 3 .07

Partner 47 1 1 .40 0.79 .90 1 -5 1 .0-5 .0 2 .63

Fr iend 381 1 . 1 5 0.45 .79 1 -5 1 .0-5.0 5.27

Postabortion

adj ustment

Distress 609 0 .59 0.63 .90 0-4 0.0-3 .0 1 . 56

Wel l-being 606 4.60 0.69 .85 1 -6 2 .3-6.0 -0 .53

Note. The variation in sample size is due to the variation in the number of women who told a particular source

about the abortion. Adapted from " Mixed Messages: Impl ications of Social Conflict and Social Support Within

Close Relationships for Adjustment to a Stressful Life Event, " by B. Major, J . M . Zubek, M. L. Cooper,

C. Cozzarel l i , and C. Richards, 1 997, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, p. 1 355. Copyright 1 997 by the American Psychological Association .

The two illustrative samples in Table 5.3 demonstrate how table formatting can be varied depending on the emphasis desired. Tables may contain entries other than just numerals (e.g., text; see Table 5 . 16 ) as long as the basic row by column structure is maintained.

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II Table 5.1 1 . Sa m p l e Ta b le of One-Deg ree-of-Freedom Statistica l Contrasts

Table X

Contrast of Time 1 With Time 2 For Exhaustion-Only Group That Changed Toward Burnout

lime 1 lime 2 95% C I Cohen 's

Variable M SO M SO t134) p LL UL d

Workload 2 .79 0 .89 2 .6 1 0 .66 1 .6 1 . 1 2 -0 .06 0 .42 0 .72

Control 3 .60 0 .83 3 . 1 3 1 . 1 8 1 .9 1 .06 -0 .05 0 .98 0 .85

Reward 3 .58 0 .82 3 .26 0 .62 1 .68 . 1 0 -0 .08 0 .70 0 .75

Commun ity 3 .75 0 .79 3 .2 1 1 .0 1 2 .96 .006 0 . 1 6 0 .92 1 .32

Fa i rness 2 .77 0 .65 2 .32 0 .97 2 .33 .03 0 .05 0 .85 1 .04

Va l ues 3 .25 0 .78 2 .65 0 .93 3.70 < .00 1 0 . 26 0 .94 1 .65

Exhaustion 3 . 1 6 0 .96 3 .62 0.95 -2 .08 .05 -0. 92 0 .00 -0.93

Cyn ic ism 0 .92 0.38 3 .30 1 .05 -8 .7 1 < .00 1 -2 .95 - 1 .8 1 -3 .89

Efficacy 4 .54 1 .08 4.38 1 . 25 0 .5 1 .6 1 -0 .49 0 .80 0 .23

Note. CI = confidence interva l ; LL = lower l imit; UL = upper l imit . Adapted from " Early Predictors of Job

Burnout and Engagement, " by C . Maslach and M. Leiter, 2008, Journal of Applied Psychology, 93, p. 509.

Copyright 2008 by the American Psychological Association.

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Table 5.1 2. S a m p l e Reg ression Ta ble

Table X

Predictors of Self-Reported Moral Behavior

Constant

Gender

Age

Variab le

Socia l desirab i l ity b ias

Mora l identity interna l ization

Mora l identity symbol ization

Perceptual mora l attentiveness

Reflective mora l attentiveness

R2

F

flR2

flF

Model 1 B

3 . 1 92* *

0 . 1 8*

-0.06

-0 .08* *

-0 . 1 7 * *

0 .07*

Self-reported moral behavior

B

2 .99* *

0 . 1 7

-0 .05

-0 .08* *

-0. 1 6* *

0 .06

Model 2

95% C I

[2 .37, 3 .621

[-0 .00, 0 .331

[-0 . 1 4, 0 .031

[-0 . 1 0, -0.051

[-0 .26, -0.061

[-0.0 1 , 0 . 1 21

0 .07 * [0 .00, 0 . 1 31

-0 .0 1 [-0.08, 0 .061

.29 .3 1

1 9 .07* * 1 4.46* *

. 0 1

2 .39

Note. N = 242. C I = confidence interva l . Adapted from " Mora l Attentiveness: Who Pays Attention to the

Mora l Aspects of Life?" by S. J. Reynolds, 2008, Journal of Applied Psychology, 93, p . 1 035. Copyright 2008 by the American Psychological Association .

*p < . 05 . * *p < .01 .

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Table 5.1 3. Sa m pl e H iera rch ica l M u lt ip le Reg ress ion Ta b le

Table X

Hierarchical Multiple Regression Analyses Predicting Postabortion Positive Well-Being

From Preabortion Social Support and Preabortion Social Conflict With Mother, Partner,

and Friend

Source of socia l support and socia l conf l ict

Pred ictor

Step 1 Control variablesa

Step 2 Positive affect Negative affect

Step 3 Socia l support Socia l conf l ict

Step 4 Socia l Support x

Social Confl ict Tota l R2

n

Mother

. 1 3 *

. 1 6* * *

. 02

.0 1

.32 * * *

1 53

.3 1 * * *

-.25* * *

. 1 7*

.09

-. 1 4

Partner Friend

. 1 0* * * . 1 0* * *

. 1 9* * * .22* * *

.32* * * .35* * *

-.27* * * -.30* * *

.05* * * . 0 1 *

. 1 7* * * .08t

-.08 -.06 .00 . 00

-.00 -.07 .33* * * .34* * *

455 373

Note. Adapted from " M ixed Messages: Impl ications of Social Confl ict and Social Support Within Close

Relationships for Adjustment to a Stressful Life Event, " by B. Major, J . M . Zubek, M. L. Cooper, C. Cozzarel l i ,

and C. R ichards, 1 997, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, p. 1 359. Copyright 1 997 by the American Psychological Association.

-Control variables included age, race, education, marital status, religion, abortion h istory, depression h istory,

and prior mental health counsel ing.

tp < . 1 0. *p < .05. * * * p < .001 .

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till! Table 5.1 4. S a m p l e M odel Com pa rison Ta ble

Table X

Fit Indices for Nested Sequence of Cross-Sectional Models

Model X2 N F l PF I

1 . Mobley's ( 1 977) measurement model 443 . 1 8* .92 .67

2 . Quit & search intentions 529.80* .89 .69 D ifference between

Model 2 and Model 1

3 . Search intentions & thoughts of qu itting 5 1 9 .75* .90 .69 D ifference between

Model 3 and Model 1

4. I ntentions to qu it & thoughts of qu itti ng 546 .97* .89 .69 D ifference between

Model 4 and Model 1

5. One withdrawa l cogn ition 61 6 .97* .87 .70 D ifference between

Model 5 and Model 1

6 . Hom, G riffeth , & Sa l l a ro 's ( 1 984) structura l model 754.37* .84 . 7 1 Difference between

Model 6 and Model 5

7 . Structura l nu l l model 2 ,741 .49* . 23 .27 D ifference between

Model 7 and Model 6

8. Nu l l model 3,849 .07*

X2 diff

86.6 1 *

76.57*

1 03 .78*

1 73 .79*

1 37 .39*

1 ,987 . 1 3*

N F l

. 03

.02

. 03

.05

. 03

.6 1

Note. N F l = normed fit index; P F I = parsimonious fit index. Adapted from " Structural Equations Model ing

Test of a Tumover Theory: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses, " by P. W. Hom and R. W. G riffeth,

1 991 , Journal of Applied Psvchology, 76, p. 356. Copyright 1 991 by the American Psychological Association . *p < .05.

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• Table 5.15. Sa m p l e M u lti level M odel Ta ble

Table X

Fixed Effects Estimates (Top) and Variance-Covariance Estimates (Bottom) for Models

of the Predictors of Positive Parenting

Parameter Model l Model 2 Model 3 Model 4 Model 5

Fixed effects

I ntercept 1 2 .51 (0 .04) 1 2 .23 (0.07) 1 2 .23 (0.07) 1 2 .23 (0.07) 1 2 .64 (0 . 1 1 )

Level 1

(chi ld-specific)

Age -0.49* (0.02) -0.48* (0.02) -0.48* (0.02) -0.48* (0.02)

Age2 0.06* (0.01 ) 0.06* (0.01 ) 0.06* (0 .01 ) 0.06* (0.01 )

Negative -0.56* (0 .08) -0.53* (0.08) -0.57 * (0.09) -0.57* (0.09)

affectivity

Gir l 0.05 (0.05) 0.05 (0.05) 0.04 (0.05) 0.07 (0.05)

Not bio. -0.34 (0.26) -0.28 (0.26) -0.28 (0.26) -0.30 (0.28)

mother

Not bio. father -0.34* (0. 1 0) -0.31 * (0. 1 0) -0.30* (0. 1 0) -0.29 (0. 1 5)

Oldest sibl ing 0.38* (0.07) 0.37* (0.07) 0.37* (0 .07) 0.36* (0.07)

Middle sibl ing -0.36* (0.06) -0.34* (0.06) -0.35* (0 .06) -0.28* (0.06)

Level 2 (fami ly)

SES 0 . 1 8* (0.06)

Marita l -0.43* (0. 1 4)

d issatisfaction

Family size -0.41 * (0.08)

Single parent 0.09 (0. 1 9)

AI I-girl sibship -0.20 (0. 1 3)

Mixed-gender -0.25* (0. 1 0)

sibship

Random parameters

Level 2

I ntercepV 5. 1 3* (0. 1 7) 4.87* (0. 1 5) 4.92* (0. 1 5) 4.86* (0. 1 5) 4.79* (0 . 1 4)

intercept

(O"�o) Age/age (0"�1 ) 0.09* (0.01 ) 0.09* (0.01 ) 0.09* (0.01 )

(continued)

T A B L E S

III Table 5.1 5. Sa m ple M u lti l evel Model Table (conti n ued)

Parameter

Age/intercept

(0'�10) Neg. affect/neg.

affect (0'�3) Neg. affect/

intercept

(0'�30) Neg. affect/

age (0'�31 ) Level l

I ntercept/

intercept

(wo) -2* log

l i kel ihood

Model l Model 2

3.80* (0 .08) 2.74* (0.06)

38,369.7 37,001 .9

Model 3 Model 4 Model 5

-0.04 (0.03) -0.05 (0.03) -0.05 (0.03)

1 .51 * (0.46) 1 .5 1 * (0 .46)

-0.03 (0.20) -0.02 (0.20)

0.00 (0.05) -0.00 (0.05)

2 .30* (0.07) 2 . 1 9* (0.07) 2 . 1 8* (0.07)

36,91 9.6 36,899.8 36,849.4

Note. Standard errors are i n parentheses . Not bio. mother = not living with the biological mother; Not bio. father = not l iving with the biologica l father; SES = socioeconomic status; Neg. affect = negative affectivity. Adapted from "The Role of the Shared Fami ly Context in Differential Parenting, " by J. M. Jenkins, J . Rasbash, and T. G . O'Connor, 2003, Developmental Psychology, 39, p. 1 04. Copyright 2003 by the American Psychological Association . *p < .05 .

!II Table 5.1 6. Sa m pl e Word Ta ble

Table X

Inductively Developed Thematic Categories

Category Thematic category Key terms

Characteristic Level 3 responses

01 . How " should " husbands wives, and chi ldren act? What is the " right way" to act?

Fami ly traditional ism

F1

F2

F3

What a re certa in fami ly members supposed to do?

Macho privi lege

Family trust and respect

Fami ly u n ity

Man, woman, say, house OR mother

Respect OR trust O R work OR help

Family OR u n ity

The husband is the one who g ives " orders . " The wife never says what she fee ls . The ch i ldre n shou ld " obey, " no matter what.

Always share everyth ing equa l ly and there should be respect among everyone/ between couples and chi ldren .

Above a l l , there shou ld be fa mi ly u n ity.

F4 Va l ues Tradition OR If she is a true bel iever, she tradit ions continue OR should a lways partici pate in

importa nt the traditions .

02. Many "trad itiona l " people l i ke Maria bel ieve that l ife i n a smal l rura l town is better than l ife in a big city. Please tel l me some of these bel iefs.

R u ra l l ifestyle

R 1

R2

R3

R4

Smal l town l ife is better

Big city op­ portun ities

R u ra l tranqu i l ity

It depends

Smal l town OR everybody knows each other

Live O R bel ieve OR big cities O R better

Life OR less stress OR rural

It depends O R more opportun ities O R the city

Because there is so much violence in the big city . . . . You know you r town and peo­ ple and you trust each other l i ke fam i ly.

Better to l ive in a big city beca use there are more jobs and educational opportun ities.

I agree that l ife i n a smal l town is better beca use in a smal l town l ife is more peacefu l .

There i s less gang activity and overa l l l ife is more peacefu l .

Sometimes it is true that rura l l ife is better. However, it's a lso true that a big city ca n he lp you or ca n destroy you ; that depends on you .

Note. Adapted from "Traditions and Alcohol Use: A M ixed-Methods Analysis, " by F. G . Castro and K . Coe, 2007, Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 13, p. 276. Copyright 2007 by the American Psychological Association .

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5. 1 9 Table Checklist

The following checklist may help ensure that the data in your table are effectively pre­ sented and conform to the style rules presented in this chapter.

Ta ble Checkl ist

D I s the tab le necessary? D Does it belong in the print version of the a rtic le, or can it go i n an on l i ne sup-

p lementa l f i le?

o Are a l l comparable tables in the manuscript consistent i n presentation? o Is the tit le brief but explanatory? D Does every column have a column head? D Are a l l abbreviations expla i ned, as wel l as specia l use of ita l ics, parentheses,

dashes, boldface, and special symbols?

D Are the notes in the fol lowing order: genera l note, specific note, probab i l ity note?

o Are a l l vertica l ru les e l im inated? o Are confidence i nterva ls reported for a l l major point estimates? I s the confi­

dence level-for example, 95%-stated, and is the same level of confidence used for a l l tables and throughout the paper?

o If statistica l s ign ificance testing is used, are a l l probab i l ity level va lues correct­ ly identified ? Are asterisks attached to the appropriate tab le entries on ly when needed (as opposed to stating exact probab i l it ies) ? When used, is a probabi l ity level assigned the same number of asterisks i n a l l tables i n the same paper?

o If a l l or pa rt of a copyrighted table is reproduced or adapted, do the tab le notes g ive fu l l credit to the copyright owner? Have you received written per­ mission for reuse ( in print and electronic form) from the copyright holder and sent a copy of that written permission to the journa l ed itor with the f ina l ver­ sion of your paper?

o I s the table referred to i n text?

Figures

5.20 Principles of Figure Use and Construction

There are many different types of figures; however, certain principles are the same for all figure types. The first consideration is the information value of the figure in the con­ text of the paper in which it is to appear. If the figure does not add substantively to the understanding of the paper or duplicates other elements of the paper, it should not be

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included. A second consideration is whether a figure is the best way to communicate the information. In some cases (particularly when quantitative information is being conveyed), a table may offer more precision than, say, a graph. A third consideration is the degree to which the figure can be produced in a way that captures the essential information features desired without visually distracting detail. When considering inclusion of a figure, always remember that the information value of the figure must dominate other decisions. If you focus on the principle of information value, other questions-for example, use of color, use of photographic images, or magnitude of cropping of a picture-should be relatively easy to resolve.

As with other elements of a manuscript, you may wish to consider placing some figures in online supplemental materials archives when those are available. Figures placed in online supplemental materials archives are those that would enrich the understanding of the material presented in the print version of the article but are not essential to the basic understanding of the material. You might want also to include materials that cannot be displayed in print format, such as video clips. As with other online supplemental materials, figures must be able to be understood on their own (see section 2. 1 3 ) . Therefore label them clearly and use detailed legends.

5.2 1 Types of Figures

Many types of figures can be used to present data to the reader. Sometimes the choice of which type to use will be obvious; at other times it will not. The more common types of figures used are described next .

.. Graphs typically display the relationship between two quantitative indices or between a continuous quantitative variable (usually displayed as the y-axis ) and groups of subjects displayed along the x-axis .

.. Charts generally display nonquantitative information such as the flow of subjects through a process, for example, flow charts .

.. Maps generally display spatial information . .. Drawings show information pictorially . .. Photographs contain direct visual representations of information.

Although these are general prototypes, there are many variations and versions of each, and the distinctions among many of them are not clear. Computer-generated images can be made to seem as if they are life-reflecting photographs, and photographs can be engineered to look more like drawings. Whenever photographic images are changed in a way that their basic information is modified, you must disclose the manipulation (see section 5 .29 ) .

Figures can b e effectively used to illustrate complex theoretical formulations (see Figure 5 . 1 ) or to represent a theory graphically through a set of path models ( see Figure 5 .2 ) . They can also show the sampling and flow of subjects through a random­ ized clinical trial or other experiment (see Figure 5 .3 ) or the flow of participants in a survey study (see Figure 5 .4 ) . Figures can be used to illustrate the results of a one-way design with error bars representing precision of the resulting estimates (see Figure 5 .5 ) or empirical results from a complex multivariate model (see Figure 5 .6 ) . They can also show details concerning the kinds of responses being gathered and scoring methods (see Figure 5 .7) as well as details of an experimental laboratory set-up (see Figure 5 . 8 ) and an experimental procedure (see Figure 5 .9 ) .

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III Figure 5.1 . Com plex Theoretica l Form u l at ions Verbatim Trace

Retrieved

b

l · b

GIst Traco Retrieved

Guessing "New"

a

Figure X. Processing tree model for the simpl ified conjoint recogn ition paradigm. Rectangles on the left denote probe type, rectangles on the right denote responses. They are connected by branches of the processing tree that represent the combina­ tion of cogn itive processes postulated by the model . � = probabi l ity of retrieving a target's verbatim trace given a target probe; � = probabi l ity of retrieving a target's verbatim trace given a related probe; Gt = probabi l ity of retrieving a target's gist trace g iven a target probe; Gr = probabi l ity of retrieving a target's gist trace g iven a related probe; b = probabi l ity of guessing that an item is either a target or a related probe; a = probabi l ity of guessing "target. " Adapted from " A Simpl ified Conjoint Recogn ition Paradigm for the Measurement of G ist and Verbatim Memory, " by C. Stah l and K. C. Klauer, 2008, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34, p. 573. Copyright 2008 by the American Psychologica l Association .

5 .22 Standards for Figures

The standards for good figures are simplicity, clarity, continuity, and (of course) infor­ mation value.

A good figure

iii! augments rather than duplicates the text, iii! conveys only essential facts, l1li omits visually distracting detail, l1li is easy to read-its elements (type, lines, labels, symbols, etc . ) are large enough to be

read with ease,

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Figure 5.2. Theory Th ro u g h a Set of Path Models

Home Literacy Environment (Predictors)

a) Direct Pathway

Home Literacy Environment (Predictors)

a

c

c'

Mediators (Phonological Awareness, Preschool Letter Identification, Vocabulary)

b) Indirect or Mediated Pathway

b

Language and Literacy Skill (Criterion)

Language and Literacy Skill (Criterion)

Figure X. Generic med iation model being tested (on the basis of Baron & Kenny, 1 986) . Adapted from U Preschool Home Literacy Practices and Ch i ld ren 's Literacy Development: A Longitud ina l Ana lysis, U by M . Hood, E. Con lon, and G . Andrews, 2008, Journal of Educational Psychology, 1 00, p. 259. Copyrig ht 2008 by the American Psychological Association .

.. is easy to understand-its purpose is readily apparent, .. is consistent with and in the same style as similar figures in the same article, and .. is carefully planned and prepared.

Be certain in figures of all types that

.. lines are smooth and sharp, .. typeface is simple (sans serif) and legible, .. units of measure are provided, .. axes are clearly labeled, and .. elements within the figure are labeled or explained.

Be certain, for instance, to distinguish between error bars and confidence intervals. When using confidence intervals, clearly specify the size of the interval (e.g., 95 % );

_ F I G U R E S

.. Figure 5.3. Sa m p l i n g a n d F low of S u bjects Th ro u g h a Random ized C l i n ical Tria l or Other Experi ment

! Al located to [ Allocation J parent-only group (n = 24 couples)

Received treatmen (n= 24)

! Lost to fol low-up:

Did not return to posttest (n = 2). 6-month (n = 3), & 1 -year (n = 3)

follow-up

! M ulti level modeling

analyzed (n = 24) [ Analysis 1 Excluded from analyses; deleted listwise for ANCOVA at posttest (n = 2), 6-month (n = 3), & 1 -year (n = 3)

follow-up

I Assessed for eligibi l ity I (n = 96 couples) Excluded [ � II t 1 for not meeting �nrollmen JI----+I inclusion criteria (n = 6)

I Randomized (n = 90 couples) I

! Allocated to parent Allocated to self-

child group study group (n = 33 couples) (n = 33 couples)

Received treatmen Received treatment (n = 33) (n = 33)

! Lost to follow-up: Lost to follow-up:

D id not return to Did not return to posttest (n = 4). posttest (n = 1 2). 6-month (n = 3), 6-month (n = 3), & 1 -year (n = 4) & 1 -year (n = 2)

follow-up follow-up

! Multilevel Mu ltilevel modeling modeling

analyzed (n = 33) analyzed (n = 33) Excluded from Excluded from

analyses; analyses; deleted listwise deleted l istwise for ANCOVA at for ANCOVA at posttest (n = 4), posttest (n = 1 2) , 6-month (n = 3) , 6-month (n = 3) , & 1 -year (n = 4) & 1 -year (n = 2)

follow-up fol low-up

Figure X. Participant f low chart fol lowing Consol idated Standards of Reporti ng Tria l s gu ide l ines. ANCOVA = ana lys is of covariance . Adapted from " Eva l uating a B rief Prevention Program for I mproving Marita l Confl ict i n Commun ity Fami l ies, " by E . M . Cummings, W. B . Fa i rc loth , P. M . M itche l l , J . S . Cummings, and A. C . Schermerhorn, 2008, Journal o f Family Psychology, 22, p . 1 96. Copyright 2008 by the American Psychologica l Association .

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figure 5.4. F l ow of Pa rtic i pa nts i n a S u rvey Study

1 55 surplus not called

270 refused

1 72 refused after screening

74 refused after schedul ing

17 soft refusals: multiple unexcused cancellations

7 refused during interview

2,1 37 eligible to be contacted

86. 1 % classroom response rate

61 surplus 4 partial interview dropped

750 interviews completed 73.2% response rate of nonsurplus eligible

families

1 2 unreachable

56 no longer attending partiCipating school

99 no biological mother in the home

298 biological mother not of Mexican origin

1 06 biological father not of Mexican origin

243 nonbiological father in the home

1 6 with severe learning disabil ities

3 non-Spanish or non-English speakers

9 partiCipating in another PRC project

Figure X. Response rate throughout the recruitment and interv iewing processes . PRC = Prevention Research Center. Adapted from " Samp l ing and Recru itment in Studies of Cu ltu ra l I nf luences on Adjustment: A Case Study With Mexican Americans , " by M . W. Roosa , F. F. L iu , M . Torres, N . A. Gonza les, G . P. Kn ight, and D. Saenz, 2008, Journal of Family Psychology, 22, p. 299. Copyright 2008 by the American Psychologica l Association .

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Figure 5.5. Resu lts of O ne-Way Desig n Us ing E rror Bars to Represent Precision of the Resu lti n g Est imates

1 00,------------------------------------------, 90 80 70

_ 60 () ! 6 50 o o

� 40 30 �------------------�

- -0- - 0 s blank screen 20 - ... - 5 s blank screen

-. - Correct/incorrect 1 0 • Correct answer

• Not tested on 1 or 2 O +=========�====�----�----------� Test 1 , Day 1 Test 2, Day 1

Test

Final test, 1 week later

Figure X. Accuracy in Experiment 1 for each type of feedback and for each test. E rror bars represent standard errors . Points are offset horizonta l ly so that error bars are vis ib le . Adapted from "When Does Feedback Faci l itate Learn ing of Words? " by H . Pash ler, N. J. Cepeda, J. T. Wixted, and D. Rohrer, 2005, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 3 1, p. 5 . Copyright 2005 by the American Psychological Association .

when using error bars, provide the label for the error (e.g., standard error of the mean) . In addition, be sure in all figures that

III sufficient information is given in the legend to make the figure understandable on its own, II symbols are easy to differentiate, and iii the graphic is large enough for its elements to be discernible.

In general, high-quality graphics software handles the technical aspects of con­ structing figures. However, do examine the resulting images to ensure that figure guidelines have been followed and make any adjustments that might be needed.

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III Figure 5.6. E m pi rica l Resu lts From a Com pl ex M u ltiva riate Model

.045

Figure X. M ultitra it-mu lt imethod confirmatory factor ana lysis model of two corre­ lated traits and two corre lated methods across two measurement waves. Completely standardized robust maximum l i ke l i hood parameter estimates. The residual variance components (error va riances) ind icate the amount of unex­ pla ined variance . Thus, for each observed variable, R 2 = ( 1 - error variance) . G PA = grade point average; I RT = item response theory; L2 = Eng l i sh . Adapted from " Native Language Proficiency, Eng l ish Literacy, Academic Ach ievement, and Occupational Atta inment i n L im ited-Engl ish-Proficient Students: A Latent G rowth Model ing Perspective, " by R . S. Gugl ie lmi , 2008, Journal of Educational Psychology, 100, p . 329. Copyright 2008 by the American Psychological Association . *p < .05 . * *p < .0 1 . * * *p < .001 .

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Figure 5.7. Ki nds of Responses Being Gathered and Scori ng Methods

MOD4 �1 FSIQ:PIQ �\

Atypical Deletion WMS

� � ~ Case 1, lO yn Case Z, 21 yn Case 3, ll yn (is:(i7 55:56 54:51

Full Deletion WMS

J .... � 4 CJ-3S yn 28 yn II yn 40:45 40:45 49:47

North American (211-33 yn) (17-21 yrs) (1l-14 yrs)

~ � � 57:57

~ ffi\ ~ 71 :66 fh n A\ ::J U-64:60 74:64 64:(i2

Figure X. Drawing copy task with elephant by smal ler de letion cases (Cases 1 , 2 , and 3) and age and IO-matched fu l l deletion Wi l l iam syndrome cases. Adapted from "Wi l l iams Syndrome Deficits in Visua l Spatial Processing Linked to GTF2 1 R D 1 and GTF2 1 on Chromosome 7q 1 1 .23, " by H . H i rota , R . Matsuoka, X.-N . Chen, L . S . Sa landanan, A. Linco ln , F. E . Rose, . . . J. R. Korenberg, 2003, Genetics in Medicine, 5, p . 3 1 8 . Copyright 2003 by American Col lege of Medical Genetics . Reprinted with permission .

5.23 Figure Legends and Captions

A legend explains the symbols used in the figure; it is placed within the figure. A cap­ tion is a concise explanation of the figure that is placed directly below the figure and serves as the title of the figure.

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III Figure 5.B. Deta i l s of a n Experi menta l Laboratory Set- U p

a.

b.

Experimenter

each square is 5.5 x 5.5

A ,...-__ .,=t6.5

Infant

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + .f. + + +

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

+ + + + + + + f. + + + + + + + + +

+ + + + + + + + +

Figure X Schematic drawings of a bird's eye view of the table (a) and the test phase of the choice task (b) . Numbers represent the dimensions in centimeters . Adapted from "Visual Experience Enhances I nfants' Use of Task-Relevant I nformation in an Action Task, " by S.-h . Wang and L. Kohne, 2007, Developmental Psychology, 43, p. 1 51 5. Copyright 2003 by the American Psychologica l Association .

Legends. The legend is an integral part of the figure; therefore, it should have the same kind and proportion of lettering that appear in the rest of the figure. Capitalize major words in the legend.

Captions. The caption serves both as an explanation of the figure and as a figure title; therefore, the figure itself should not include a title. The caption should be a brief but descriptive phrase. Compare the following captions.

Too brief:

Figure 3. Fixation duration .

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Figure 5.9. Deta i l s of Experimenta l Proced u re

Study Phase Picture Test

pumpkin "no"

"yes"

Figure X Schematic of the criterial recol lection task. At study, each black word was fol lowed by the same word in red letters (depicted in ita l ics) or by a colored picture . B lack words were used at test as retrieva l cues, under various retrieval i nstructions (picture test shown, with correct responses in quotes) . Adapted from " Retrieva l Monitoring and Anosognosia in Alzheimer's Disease, " by D. A. Gal lo, J . M . Chen, A. L. Wiseman, D . L. Schacter, and A. E . Budson, 2007, Neuropsychology, 2 1, p. 560. Copyright 2007 by the American Psychological Association.

Sufficiently descriptive:

Figure 3. Fixation duration as a function of the delay between the beg inn ing of eye fixation and the onset of the stimu lus in Experiment 1 .

After the descriptive phrase, add any information needed to clarify the figure: A reader should not have to refer to the text to decipher the figure's message. Always explain units of measurement, symbols, and abbreviations that are not included in the legend. If your graph includes error bars, explain whether they represent standard deviations, standard errors, confidence limits, or ranges; it is also helpful to display sample sizes. If statistically significant values are marked in the figure, explain · the probability in the caption (follow the same system used for table notes; see section 5 . 16 ) . Include within the caption any acknowledgment that a figure is reproduced from another source (see section 2 .12 ) .

Make certain that the symbols, abbreviations, and terminology in the caption and legend agree with the symbols, abbreviations, and terminology in the figure, in other figures in the article, and in the text.

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5.24 Planning Figures

When planning a figure, consider the following guidelines:

• Parallel figures or figures of equal importance should be of equal size and scale. • Like figures should be combined to facilitate comparisons between them. For exam­

ple, two figures can be placed one above the other and treated as one figure. Two line graphs with identical axes might be combined horizontally and treated as one figure.

• A figure legend should be positioned within the borders of the figure (see Figure 5.5) . Place labels for parts of a figure as close as possible to the components being identified.

5.25 Preparation of Figures

Figures intended for publication in scholarly journals should be computer generated using professional-level graphic software. Always check the file type requirements of the publisher to which you intend to submit your paper. Figures should be prepared at a resolution sufficient to produce high-quality images; appropriate resolution depends on figure type. Photographs (see section 5.29), for example, can be reproduced clear­ ly at lower resolution than that needed for line art.

Image dimensions should be such that files can be easily transferred electronically. Avoid the use of three-dimensional and other effects (including color) , except in rare instances in which they demonstrably enhance the presentation of your data. Individual publishers have stated policies with regard to color printing.

Size and proportion of elements. Each element must be large enough and sharp enough to be legible. Use a simple typeface (such as Arial, Futura, or Helvetica) with enough space between letters to avoid crowding. Letters should be clear, sharp, and uniformly dark and should be sized consistently throughout the figure. Type style affects legibili­ ty. For example, boldface type tends to thicken and become less readable. The size of lettering should be no smaller than 8 points and no larger than 14 points. As a general guideline, plot symbols should be about the size of a lowercase letter of an average label within the figure. Also consider the weight (i .e., size, density) of each element in a fig­ ure in relation to that of every other element, making the most important elements the most prominent. For example, curves on line graphs and outlines of bars on bar graphs should be bolder than axis labels, which should be bolder than the axes and tick marks.

Shading. Limit the number of different shadings used in a single graphic. If different shadings are used to distinguish bars or segments of a graph, choose shadings that are distinct (e.g., the best option to distinguish two sets of bars is no shading [open] and black [solid] ) . If more than three shadings are required, a table may be a better pres­ entation of the data. Use computer-generated art in such a way as to maximize the clar­ ity of the resulting graphic. And as always, keep it simple and clean looking.

Presentin g E l ectrophysioiogica l, Radiological, a n d Other Biological Data

The presentation of electrophysiological and radiological data presents special chal­ lenges because of both the complexity of the data and the lack of existence of a

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single convention for presentation o f these types o f data . The lack o f a single, well­ established standard for presentation requires that labeling of all aspects of the presentation be done clearly and completely (readers are referred to Devlin & Poldrack, 2007; Mildenberger, Eichenberg, & Martin, 2002; Picton et al . , 2000; see also http://www.fmrimethods .org) . Do not assume that readers will know the conven­ tion that you are following. In addition, most graphical and image-based representa­ tions of the basic data are highly processed, edited, and enhanced. The high level of processing of these forms of data makes it essential that the processing methods are clearly identified and that enhanced data (and the ensuing representation of such enhanced data) are clearly and openly identified.

In selecting data elements to present in the print version of the document, focus first on principles of clarity of representation, necessity for understanding, and coher­ ence among representations . With the availability of online supplemental archives, carefully consider the readability of the text when deciding whether to include com­ plex graphs and images in the text proper. When materials are better viewed in non­ print media or when images and graphics contain more information than can easily be comprehended in the usual print formats-for example, those that are greatly enhanced through the use of color or instances in which numerous images are needed to communicate the essential features of the study-consider the use of online supple­ mental archives for the presentation of the bulk of this information.

Many procedures used for the display of biologically related data use color, motion, or other display features not best rendered in black-and-white printing. In par­ ticular, fMRI images are typically coded in color, where color differences indicate acti­ vation differences. In the genetics area, gene staining results are often presented in color. Dynamical spread of brain activation can be displayed through color video clips. In the material that follows, we present print examples that are appropriate for black­ and-white printing but also point to a number of examples (particularly those using color) that are included on the APA Style website (www.apastyle.org) .

5.26 Electrophysiological Data

When presenting electrophysiological data, clear labeling is essential; for example, in the presentation of event-related brain potential data, it is essential that the direction of negativity (i .e . , negative up or down) be indicated as well as the scale of the response. Information that is necessary for proper interpretation of the graphic, such as number or placement of electrodes, should accompany the graphic display. The graphic image and the points made in the text should be closely allied. Eliminate extra­ neous materials from graphic presentation (see Figure S . 1 0 ) .

5.27 Radiological ( Imaging) Data

When presenting brain images, clearly label each image. When axial or coronal sec­ tions are being displayed, clearly label which hemisphere is the left and which the right. When saggital slices are displayed, clearly indicate whether each slice is of the right or the left hemisphere. When slices are shown, show also an image that indicates where the slices were taken to help orient the reader. Specify the coordinate space in which the images have been normalized (e .g., Talairach, MNI) .

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Figure X. Lesion maps for the two right hemisphere patients p lotted onto a norma l template bra in using M R l cro software (Rorden & Brett, 2000) . Affected regions (trans lucent wh ite) a re plotted onto axial s l ices, with numbers above each s l ice ind icati ng Z coord inates in Ta la i rach space . Adapted from " Centra l Perceptual Load Does Not Reduce Ipsi lesiona l F lanker I nterference in Parieta l Ext inction, " by J. C. Snow and J. B. Matting ley, 2008, Neuropsychology, 22, p. 375. Copyright 2008 by the American Psychologica l Association .

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Cutaway views of the brain that show activations interior to it can be useful if the cutaways clearly depict the tissue that has been excised. When activations are super­ imposed on a surface-rendered image of a brain, include a clear explanation of what activations are being shown, particularly with regard to the depth of the activation that has been brought to the surface; the use of flattened surface images may help make the data clearer. When using color, use it consistently in all representations within the document and clearly specify the color-scale mapping (see example at www.apastyle.org) .

Neuroimaging data almost always require extensive postacquisition processing. Details of the processing methods should accompany their display (see Figure 5 . 1 1 ) .

Photomicrographs are often used in cell-staining and other types o f imaging stud­ ies. When preparing photomicrographs, include a scale bar and staining materials information in the figure caption.

5.28 Genetic Data

As with other displays of biological material, clear labeling enhances the display of genetic information such as deletion patterns-be they of the physical map variety ( see Figure 5 . 12 ) or the photographic stain variety (see example at www.apastyle.org ) . Present information concerning locations, distances, markers, and identification methods with the figure. Genetic data displays often contain much information; care­ ful editing of the image, and of its legend, can improve the communicative value of the figure.

5.29 Photographs

Photographic images are almost always submitted as digital files embedded in or attached to the electronic version of the manuscript. It is essential that these images be submitted at appropriate levels of resolution.

Because reproduction softens contrast and detail in photographs, starting with rich contrast and sharp prints will improve the final print version of the image. The cam­ era view and the lighting should highlight the subject and provide high contrast; a light or dark background can provide even more contrast.

Photographs must be of professional quality and should be presented as black-and­ white images, unless they include color-specific information relevant to the study (e.g., differently colored stimuli) . Submit the image as a file type appropriate to the needs of the publication to which you are submitting. Do not submit color image files for fig­ ures intended for black-and-white printing; the transition from color to black and white for reproduction is unpredictable and can result in misleading images. It is the author's responsibility to ensure that the final representation is accurate. If color pho­ tos are necessary, consult your publication's instructions to authors for guidelines regarding color images.

Photographs usually benefit from cropping (i.e., eliminating what is not to be reproduced), just as careful editing of words can produce a more comprehensible text. Cropping recomposes the photo, eliminates extraneous detail, and centers the image. Before cropping, ensure that the image is straight (e.g., that vertical lines are truly ver­ tical) ; use your software application to align the image if necessary. When used appro­ priately, these alterations can enhance and clarify the image and make it more useful

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as a means of scientific communication; they also help to protect the identity of indi­ viduals . However, the same technology can be used to deceive. Ethical principles of publication forbid any intentional misrepresentation of images in exactly the same way that fraudulent data manipulation is forbidden. When an image that might reasonably be thought to be a photographic image (as opposed to an image that is clearly a con­ structed image-a table, chart, cartoon, etc . ) has been altered in a manner beyond sim­ ple cropping, clearly indicate in a note that accompanies the image that it has been altered.

If you photograph a person, obtain a signed release from that person to use the photograph. If you use a photograph from another source, try to obtain the original photograph because photographs of photographs do not print clearly. Obtain written permission for reuse (in both print and electronic form) from the copyright holder, and acknowledge the author and the copyright holder in the figure caption ( see section 5 .06; see also section 2 .12 ) . You may need to obtain permission from the photogra­ pher as well because professional photographs do not meet all the criteria of work for hire and are usually the property of the photographer.

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5.30 Figure Checklist

The following checklist may be helpful in ensuring that your figure communicates most effectively and conforms to APA Style and formatting conventions.

III Fig u re Checkl ist o I s the f igu re necessary? o I s the f igu re s imple , c lear, and free of extraneous deta i l ? o I s the figu re tit le descriptive of the content of the f igure? o Are a l l e lements of the f igure clea rly labeled? o Are the magn itude, sca le, and d i rection of grid e lements clea rly labeled? o Are figu res of equal ly important concepts prepared accord ing to the same

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Cred iti ng Sources

cientific knowledge represents the accomplishments of many researchers over time. A critical part of the writing process is helping readers place your contribu­ tion in context by citing the researchers who influenced you. In this chapter, we

provide the ground rules for acknowledging how others contributed to your work. We begin by describing the appropriate level of citation and offer a brief review of plagia­ rism and self-plagiarism. Next, we offer guidelines on formatting quoted material in text and information on seeking permission to reprint or adapt previously published material. This is followed by instruction on citing sources in text and a description of key elements of the reference list.

When to Cite

Cite the work of those individuals whose ideas, theories, or research have directly influenced your work. They may provide key background information, support or dis­ pute your thesis, or offer critical definitions and data . Citation of an article implies that you have personally read the cited work. In addition to crediting the ideas of others that you used to build your thesis, provide documentation for all facts and figures that are not common knowledge. Figure 6 . 1 provides an example of the appropriate level of citation, adapted from an article in an APA journal.

The number of sources you cite in your work will vary by the intent of the article. For most articles, aim to cite one or two of the most representative sources for each key point. However, because the intent of a review article is to acquaint readers with all that has been written on a topic, authors of literature reviews typically include a more exhaustive list of citations.

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Left-handers make up 8% to 1 3 % of most human populations, with left-handedness more common in men than in women (Gi lbert & Wysocki, 1 992; McManus, 1 99 1 ) . Secondary school and u n ivers ity students engaged in " interactive " sports such as tenn is and basket­ bal l a re sign ificantly more l i kely to be left-handed than those engaged i n " non i nteractive " sports such as swimming or rowing, or than those in the genera l popu lation (Grouios, Tsorbatzoudis, Alexandris, & Barkou kis, 2000; Raymond et a I . , 1 996) . One possible explanation for this handedness bias is that left-handers a re better than right-handers at some visuomotor tasks, as has been invoked to expla in the left-handed bias among e l ite tennis players (Holtzen, 2000) .

Note. Adapted from " Frequency-Dependent Performance and Handedness in Professional Baseba l l Players (Homo sapiens) , " by E . D. Clotfe lter, 2008, Journal of Comparative Psychology, 122, p. 68. Copyright 2008 by the American Psychologica l Association .

6.0 1 Plagiarism

As stated in Chapter 1 , "Authors do not present the work of another as if it were their own work" (p. 16 ) . Whether paraphrasing, quoting an author directly, or describing an idea that influenced your work, you must credit the source. To avoid charges of pla­ giarism, take careful notes as you research to keep track of your sources and cite those sources according to the guidelines presented in this chapter (see also section 1 . 10 ) .

6.02 Self-Plagiarism

Whereas plagiarism refers to the practice of claiming credit for the words, ideas, and con­ cepts of others, self-plagiarism refers to the practice of presenting one's own previously published work as though it were new. As noted in Chapter 1, "The core of the new doc­ ument must constitute an original contribution to knowledge, and only the amount of previously published material necessary to understand that contribution should be included, primarily in the discussion of theory and methodology" (p. 16 ) . Avoid charges of self-plagiarism by familiarizing yourself with the ethical standards regarding duplicate publication and the legal standards of fair use (see also section 1 . 10 ) .

Quoting and Paraphrasing 6.03 Direct Quotation of Sources

Reproduce word for word material directly quoted from another author's work or from your own previously published work, material replicated from a test item, and verbatim instructions to participants. When quoting, always provide the author, year, and specific page citation or paragraph number for nonpaginated material ( see sec­ tion 6.05) in the text and include a complete reference in the reference list (see Citing References in Text, p. 1 74, for exceptions to this rule) .

I f the quotation comprises fewer than 40 words, incorporate i t into text and enclose the quotation with double quotation marks. If the quotation appears in mid-

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sentence, end the passage with quotation marks, cite the source in parentheses imme­ diately after the quotation marks, and continue the sentence. Use no other punctuation unless the meaning of the sentence requires such punctuation.

I n terpreting these resu lts, Robbins et a l . (2003) suggested that the "therapists in dropout cases may have i nadvertently va l idated parenta l negativity about the adolescent without adequately responding to the adolescent's needs or con­ cerns" (p. 541 ) , contributi ng to an overa l l c l imate of negativity.

If the quotation appears at the end of a sentence, close the quoted passage with quo­ tation marks, cite the source in parentheses immediately after the quotation marks, and end with a period or other punctuation outside the final parenthesis .

Confus ing th is issue is the overlapping natu re of roles in pa l l iative care, whereby " medica l needs are met by those in the medica l discip l i nes; nonmedica l needs may be addressed by anyone on the team " (Csikai & Chaitin , 2006, p . 1 1 2) .

If the quotation comprises 40 o r more words, display it in a freestanding block o f text and omit the quotation marks. Start such a block quotation on a new line and indent the block about a half inch from the left margin (in the same position as a new para­ graph) . If there are additional paragraphs within the quotation, indent the first line of each an additional half inch. Double-space the entire quotation. At the end of a block quotation, cite the quoted source and the page or paragraph number in parentheses after the final punctuation mark.

Others have contradicted th is view:

Co-presence does not ensure intimate interaction a mong a l l group mem­ bers. Consider la rge-sca le socia l gatheri ngs in which hundreds or thousands of people gather in a location to perform a ritua l or celebrate an event.

In these i nstances, participants are ab le to see the vis ib le man ifestation of the g roup, the physical gathering, yet their ab i l ity to make d i rect, i ntimate connections with those around them is l im ited by the sheer magn itude of the assembly. (Purce l l , 1 997, pp. 1 1 1 -1 1 2)

Alternatively, if the quoted source is cited in the sentence introducing the block quote (e.g., "In 1 997, Purcell contradicted this view . . . " ) , only the page or paragraph num­ ber is needed at the end of the quotation.

6.04 Paraphrasing Material When paraphrasing or referring to an idea contained in another work, you are encour­ aged to provide a page or paragraph number, especially when it would help an inter­ ested reader locate the relevant passage in a long or complex text.

6.05 Direct Quotations of Online Materia l Without Pagination

Credit direct quotations of online material by giving the author, year, and page number in parentheses. Many electronic sources do not provide page numbers. If

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paragraph numbers are visible, use them in place of page numbers. Use the abbre­ viation para.

Basu and Jones (2007) went so far as to suggest the need for a new " intel lectua l framework in which to consider the nature and form of regulation i n cyberspace" (para . 4) .

If the document includes headings and neither paragraph nor page numbers are visible, cite the heading and the number of the paragraph following it to direct the reader to the location of the quoted material.

In their study, Verbunt, Perno!. and Smeets (2008) found that "the level of perceived disabi l ity in patients with fibromyalgia seemed best explained by their menta l hea lth condition and less by their physica l condition " (D iscussion section, para . 1 ) .

In some cases in which no page or paragraph numbers are visible, headings may be too unwieldy to cite in full. Instead, use a short title enclosed in quotation marks for the parenthetical citation:

" Empi rica l studies have found mixed resu lts on the efficacy of labels in educat­ ing consumers and changing consumption behavior " (Golan , Kuch ler, & Krissof, 2007, " Mandatory Label ing Has Targeted, " pa ra . 4) .

(The heading was "Mandatory Labeling Has Targeted Information Gaps and Social Objectives. " )

6.06 Accuracy of Quotations

Direct quotations must be accurate. Except as noted here and in sections 6.07 and 6.08, the quotation must follow the wording, spelling, and interior punctuation of the original source, even if the source is incorrect.

If any incorrect spelling, punctuation, or grammar in the source might confuse read­ ers, insert the word sic, italicized and bracketed, immediately after the error in the quo­ tation. (See sections 4.08 and 4. 10 regarding the use of brackets in quotations. ) Always check the manuscript copy against the source to ensure that there are no discrepancies.

6.07 Changes From the Source Requiring No Explanation

The first letter of the first word in a quotation may be changed to an uppercase or a lowercase letter. The punctuation mark at the end of a sentence may be changed to fit the syntax. Single quotation marks may be changed to double quotation marks and vice versa. Any other changes (e.g., italicizing words for emphasis or omitting words; see section 6 .08 ) must be explicitly indicated.

6.08 Changes From the Source Requiring Explanation

Omitting material . Use three spaced ellipsis points ( . . . ) within a sentence to indicate that you have omitted material from the original source. Use four points to indicate

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any omission between two sentences. The first point indicates the period at the end of the first sentence quoted, and the three spaced ellipsis points follow. Do not use ellip­ sis points at the beginning or end of any quotation unless, to prevent misinterpretation, you need to emphasize that the quotation begins or ends in midsentence.

Inserting material. Use brackets, not parentheses, to enclose material such as an addi­ tion or explanation inserted in a quotation by some person other than the original author (see also the second example in section 4. 10 ) .

"They a re studying, from an evolutionary perspective, to what extent [ch i ld ren 'sl play is a luxury that can be dispensed with when there a re too many other com­ peting c la ims on the growing bra in . . . " (Hen ig , 2008, p . 40) .

Adding emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or words in a quotation, italicize the word or words. Immediately after the italicized words, insert within brackets the words emphasis added, that is, [emphas is addedl (see section 4.08, second example) .

6.09 Citations Within Quotations

Do not omit citations embedded within the original material you are quoting. The works cited need not be included in the list of references (unless you happen to cite them as primary sources elsewhere in your paper) .

" I n t he Un ited States, the American Cancer Society (2007) est imated that about 1 m i l l ion cases of N MSC and 59,940 cases of melanoma wou ld be diagnosed in 2007, with melanoma resu lt i ng i n 8, 1 1 0 deaths " (M i l ler et a I . , 2009, p . 209) .

6. 1 0 Permission to Quote, Reprint, or Adapt

You may need written permission from the owner of copyrighted work if you include lengthy quotations or if you include reprinted or adapted tables or figures. Reprinting indicates that the material is reproduced exactly as it appeared originally, without mod­ ifications, in the way in which it was intended. Adaptation refers to the modification of material so that it is suitable for a new purpose (e.g., paraphrasing or presenting an original theory or idea discussed in a long passage in a published article in a new way that suits your study; using part of a table or figure in a new table or figure in your man­ uscript) . Requirements for obtaining permission to quote copyrighted material vary from one copyright owner to another; for example, APA policy permits authors to use, with some exceptions, a maximum of three figures or tables from a journal article or book chapter, single text extracts of fewer than 400 words, or a series of text extracts that total fewer than 800 words without requesting formal permission from APA. It is important to check with the publisher or copyright owner regarding specific require­ ments for permission to quote from or adapt copyrighted material.

It is the author's responsibility to find out whether permission is required from the copyright owner and to obtain it for both print and electronic reuse. APA cannot pub­ lish previously copyrighted material that exceeds the copyright holder's determination of "fair use" without permission.

If you must obtain written permission from the copyright owner, append a foot­ note to the quoted material with a superscript number, and in the footnote acknowl-

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edge permission from the owner of the copyright. Format the footnote as shown in Chapter 2, section 2. 12.

Citing References in Text

References in APA publications are cited in text with an author-date citation system and are listed alphabetically in the reference list. This style of citation briefly identifies the source for readers and enables them to locate the source of information in the alphabetical reference list at the end of the article. Each reference cited in text must appear in the reference list, and each entry in the reference list must be cited in text. Make certain that each source referenced appears in both places and that the text cita­ tion and reference list entry are identical in spelling of author names and year.

However, two kinds of material are cited only in the text: references to classical works such as the Bible and the Qur'an, whose sections are standardized across edi­ tions, and references to personal communications (see sections 6. 1 8 and 6.20 ) . References in a meta-analysis are not cited in text unless they are also mentioned in the text (see section 6.26)

6. 1 1 One Work by One Author

The author-date method of citation requires that the surname of the author (do not include suffixes such as fr. ) and the year of publication be inserted in the text at the appropriate point:

Kessler (2003) found that among epidemiologica l samples

Ear ly onset resu lts i n a more persistent and severe course (Kessler, 2003) .

If the name of the author appears as part of the narrative, as in the first example, cite only the year of publication in parentheses. Otherwise, place both the name and the year, separated by a comma, in parentheses (as in the second example) . Even if the reference includes month and year, include only the year in the text citation. In the rare case in which both the year and the author are given as part of the textual discussion, do not add parenthetical information:

I n 2003, Kessler's study of epidemiolog ica l samp les showed that

Within a paragraph, when the name of the author is part of the narrative (as in the first example above) , you need not include the year in subsequent nonparenthetical ref­ erences to a study as long as the study cannot be confused with other studies cited in the article. Do include the year in all parenthetical citations:

Among epidemiolog ica l samples, Kessler (2003) found that early onset soc ia l anxiety d isorder resu lts in a more potent and severe course. Kess ler a l so found . . . . The study a lso showed that there was a h igh rate of comorbid ity with a lcohol abuse or dependence and major depression (Kess ler, 2003 ) .

However, when both the name and the year are in parentheses (as in the second example above), include the year in subsequent citations within the paragraph:

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Early onset resu lts i n a more persistent and severe course (Kess ler, 2003 ) . Kess ler (2003) a l so found . . . .

6. 1 2 One Work by Multiple Authors

When a work has two authors, cite both names every time the reference occurs in text. When a work has three, four, or five authors, cite all authors the first time the refer­ ence occurs; in subsequent citations, include only the surname of the first author fol­ lowed by et al. (not italicized and with a period after all and the year if it is the first citation of the reference within a paragraph.

Kisangau, Lyaruu , Hosea , and Joseph (2007) found [Use as first citation in text.]

Kisangau et a l . (2007) found [Use as subsequent first citation per paragraph thereafter. ] Kisangau et a l . found [Omit year from subsequent citations after first nonpar­ enthetical citation within a paragraph. Include the year in subsequent citations if first citation within a paragraph is parenthetical. See section 6 . 1 1 .]

Exception: If two references of more than three surnames with the same year shorten to the same form (e.g., both Ireys, Chernoff, DeVet, & Kim, 2001 , and Ireys, Chernoff, Stein, DeVet, & Silver, 2001 , shorten to Ireys et aI ., 2001 ), cite the surnames of the first authors and of as many of the subsequent authors as necessary to distinguish the two references, followed by a comma and et al.

I reys, Chernoff, DeVet, et a l . (2001 ) and I reys, Chernoff, Ste in , et a l . (200 1 )

Precede the final name in a multiple-author citation in running text by the word and. In parenthetical material, in tables and captions, and in the reference list, join the names by an ampersand (&) :

as Kurtines and Szapoczn ik (2003) demonstrated

as has been shown (J6reskog & S6rbom, 2007)

When a work has six or more authors, cite only the surname of the first author fol­ lowed by et al. (not italicized and with a period after all and the year for the first and subsequent citations. (See section 6.27 and Example 2 in Chapter 7 for how to cite works with more than six authors in the reference list. ) If two references with six or more authors shorten to the same form, cite the surnames of the first authors and of as many of the subsequent authors as necessary to distinguish the two references, followed by a comma and et al. For example, suppose you have entries for the following references:

Kosslyn , Koen ig , Ba rrett. Cave, Tang, and Gabr ie l i ( 1 996)

Kosslyn, Koen ig , Gabriel i , Tang, Marsolek, and Daly ( 1 996)

In text you would cite them, respectively, as

Kosslyn, Koen ig , Ba rrett, et a l . ( 1 996) and Kosslyn, Koen ig , Gabrie l i , et a l . ( 1 996)

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Table 6 . 1 illustrates the basic citation styles. Exceptions and citation styles that do not work in the tabular format are discussed in text or included as part of the example references.

6. 1 3 Groups as Authors

The names of groups that serve as authors (e.g., corporations, associations, govern­ ment agencies, and study groups) are usually spelled out each time they appear in a text citation. The names of some group authors are spelled out in the first citation and abbreviated thereafter. In deciding whether to abbreviate the name of a group author, use the general rule that you need to give enough information in the text citation for the reader to locate the entry in the reference list without difficulty. If the name is long and cumbersome and if the abbreviation is familiar or readily understandable, you may abbreviate the name in the second and subsequent citations. If the name is short or if the apbreviation would not be readily understandable, write out the name each time it occurs (see examples in Table 6 . 1 ) .

6. 14 Authors With the Same Surname

If a reference list includes publications by two or more primary authors with the same surname, include the first author's initials in all text citations, even if the year of pub­ lication differs. Initials help the reader to avoid confusion within the text and to locate the entry in the list of references (see section 6.25 for the order of appearance in the reference list ) .

References:

Light, I . (2006) . Deflecting immigration: Networks, markets, and regulation in Los Angeles. New York, NY: Russe l l Sage Foundation .

Light, M . A. , & Light, I . H . (2008) . The geograph ic expansion of Mexican immigra­ tion in the Un ited States and its impl ications for loca l law enforcement. Law

Enforcement Executive Forum Journal, 8, 73-82 .

Text Cites:

Among studies, we review M . A. Light and Light (2008) and I . L ight (2006) .

6. 1 5 Works With No Identified Author or With an Anonymous Author

When a work has no identified author, cite in text the first few words of the reference list entry (usually the title) and the year. Use double quotation marks around the title of an article, a chapter, or a web page and italicize the title of a periodical, a book, a brochure, or a report:

on free ca re ( " Study F inds, " 2007)

the book College Bound Seniors (2008)

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Parenthetical Subsequent format, first Parenthetical format,

Type of First citation citations citation subsequent citations citation in text in text in text in text

One work by one Walker (2007) Walker (2007) (Walker, 2007) (Wal ker, 2007) author

One work by two Walker and Walker and (Walker & (Walker & Allen, 2004) authors Allen (2004) Allen (2004) Allen, 2004)

One work by three Bradley, Bradley et a l . (Bradley, (Bradley et a I . , 1 999) authors Ramirez, ( 1 999) Ramirez, &

and Soo Soo, 1 999) ( 1 999)

One work by four Bradley, Bradley et a l . (Bradley, (Bradley et a I . , 2006) authors Ramirez, (2006) Ramirez,

Soo, and Soo, & Walsh Walsh, 2006) (2006)

One work by five Wal ker, Allen, Walker et a l . (Walker, Al len, (Walker et a I . , 2008) authors Bradley, (2008) Bradley,

Ramirez, Ramirez, & and Soo Soo, 2008) (2008)

One work by six or Wasserstein Wasserstein (Wasserstein (Wasserstein et a I . , more authors et a l . (2005) et al. (2005) et a I . , 2005) 2005)

Groups (readi ly National N I M H (2003) (National ( N I M H, 2003) identified through Institute of Institute of abbreviation) as Menta l Menta l authors Health Health

(N I M H , [ N I M H ] , 2003) 2003)

G roups (no U niversity of Un iversity of (Un iversity of (Un iversity of Pitts- abbreviation) as Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, burgh, 2005) authors (2005) (2005) 2005)

Treat references to legal materials like references to works with no author; that is, in text, cite materials such as court cases, statutes, and legislation by the first few words of the reference and the year (see Appendix 7. 1 for the format of text citations and ref­ erences for legal materials) .

When a work's author i s designated a s "Anonymous, " cite i n text the word Anonymous followed by a comma and the date:

(Anonymous, 1 998)

In the reference list, an anonymous work is alphabetized by the word Anonymous ( see section 6.25 ) .

6. 1 6 Two or More Works Within the Same Parentheses

Order the citations of two or more works within the same parentheses alphabetically in the same order in which they appear in the reference list (including citations that would otherwise shorten to et al. ) .

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Arrange two or more works by the same authors (in the same order) by year of publication. Place in-press citations last. Give the authors' surnames once; for each subsequent work, give only the date.

Tra in i ng materia ls a re ava i lable (Department of Veterans Affa i rs , 2001 , 2003)

Past research (Goge l , 1 990, 2006, in press)

Identify works by the same author (or by the same two or more authors in the same order) with the same publication date by the suffixes a, b, c, and so forth, after the year; repeat the year. The suffixes are assigned in the reference list, where these kinds of references are ordered alphabetically by title (of the article, chapter, or com­ plete work) .

Severa l studies (Derryberry & Reed, 2005a , 2005b, i n press-a ; Rothbart , 2003a , 2003b)

List two or more works by different authors who are cited within the same paren­ theses in alphabetical order by the first author's surname. Separate the citations with semicolons.

Severa l studies (M i l ler, 1 999; Shafranske & Mahoney, 1 998)

Exception: You may separate a major citation from other citations within parentheses by inserting a phrase, such as see also, before the first of the remaining citations, which should be in alphabetical order:

(M inor, 200 1 ; see a lso Adams, 1 999; Storandt, 2007)

6. 1 7 Secondary Sources

Use secondary sources sparingly, for instance, when the original work is out of print, unavailable through usual sources, or not available in English. Give the secondary source in the reference list; in text, name the original work and give a citation for the secondary source. For example, if Allport's work is cited in Nicholson and you did not read Allport's work, list the Nicholson reference in the reference list. In the text, use the following citation:

Al lport 's d iary (as cited in N icholson, 2003) .

6. 1 8 Classical Works

When a date of publication is inapplicable, such as for some very old works, cite the year of the translation you used, preceded by trans., or the year of the version you used, followed by version. When you know the original date of publication, include it in the citation.

(Aristot le, trans . 1 93 1 )

James ( 1 890/1 983)

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Reference list entries are not required for major classical works, such as ancient Greek and Roman works or classical religious works; simply identify in the first cita­ tion in the text the version you used. Parts of classical works (e.g., books, chapters, verses, lines, cantos) are numbered systematically across all editions, so use these num­ bers instead of page numbers when referring to specific parts of your source:

1 Cor. 1 3 : 1 (Revised Standard Version)

(Qur 'an 5 :3-4)

6. 1 9 Citing Specific Parts of a Source

To cite a specific part of a source, indicate the page, chapter, figure, table, or equation at the appropriate point in text. Always give page numbers for quotations (see section 6.03 ) . Note that page, but not chapter, is abbreviated in such text citations:

(Centers for D isease Control and Prevention, 2005, p . 1 0)

(Sh imamura , 1 989, Chapter 3)

For guidance on citing electronic sources that do not provide page numbers, see section 6.05.

See section 6 . 1 8 for citing parts of classical works.

6.20 Personal Com munications

Personal communications may be private letters, memos, some electronic communica­ tions (e.g., e-mail or messages from nonarchived discussion groups or electronic bul­ letin boards) , personal interviews, telephone conversations, and the like. Because they do not provide recoverable data, personal communications are not included in the ref­ erence list. Cite personal communications in text only. Give the initials as well as the surname of the communicator, and provide as exact a date as possible:

T. K. Lutes (persona l commun ication, Apri l 1 8, 2001 )

(V.-G . Nguyen, persona l commun ication, September 28, 1 998)

Use your judgment in citing other electronic forms as personal communications; online networks currently provide a casual forum for communicating, and what you cite should have scholarly relevance.

Some forms of personal communication are recoverable, and these should be ref­ erenced as archival materials. See section 7. 10 for templates, descriptions, and exam­ ples of archival sources in the reference list.

6.2 1 Citations in Parenthetical Material

In a citation that appears in parenthetical text, use commas, not brackets, to set off the date:

(see Table 3 of U .S . Depa rtment of Labor, 2007, for complete data)

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Reference list The reference list at the end of a journal article provides the information necessary to identify and retrieve each source. Choose references judiciously and include only the sources that you used in the research and preparation of the article. APA journals and other journals using APA Style generally require reference lists, not bibliographies . 1 APA requires that the reference list be double-spaced and that entries have a hanging indent. Because a reference list includes only references that document the article and provide recoverable data, do not include in the list personal communications, such as letters, memoranda, and informal electronic communications. Instead, cite personal communications only in text (see section 6.20 for format) .

6.22 Construction of an Accurate and Complete Reference List

Because one purpose of listing references is to enable readers to retrieve and use the sources, reference data must be correct and complete. Each entry usually contains the following elements: author, year of publication, title, and publishing data-all the information necessary for unique identification and library search. The best way to ensure that information is accurate and complete is to check each reference carefully against the original publication. Give special attention to spelling of proper names and of words in foreign languages, including accents or other special marks, and to com­ pleteness of journal titles, years, volume and issue numbers, page numbers, and elec­ tronic retrieval data. Authors are responsible for all information in their reference lists . Accurately prepared references help establish your credibility as a careful researcher.

Abbreviations. Acceptable abbreviations in the reference list for parts of books and other publications include the following:

Abbreviation

ed. Rev. ed . 2nd ed . Ed . (Eds . ) Trans . n .d . p . (pp . ) Vol . Vols . No. Pt. Tech . Rep. Supp l .

Book or publication part

edition Revised edition second edition Ed itor (Ed itors) Translator(s) no date page (pages) Vol ume (as i n Vol . 4) Vol u mes (as i n Vo ls . 1 -4) N umber Pa rt Techn ical Report Supplement

Arabic numerals. Although some volume numbers of books and journals are given in Roman numerals, APA journals use Arabic numerals (e.g., Vol. 3, not Vol. III) because they use less space and are easier to comprehend than Roman numerals. A Roman numer­ al that is part of a title should remain Roman (e.g., Attention and Performance XIII) .

lNote that a reference list cites works that specifically support a particular article. In contrast, a bibliography cites works for background or for further reading and may include descriptive notes.

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6.23 Consistency

Consistency in reference style is important, especially in light of evolving technologies in database indexing, such as automatic indexing by database crawlers. These com­ puter programs use algorithms to capture data from primary articles as well as from the article reference list. If reference elements are out of order or incomplete, the algo­ rithm may not recognize them, lowering the likelihood that the reference will be cap­ tured for indexing. With this in mind, follow the general formats for placement of data and use the electl"onic reference guidelines detailed in this chapter to decide which data are necessary to allow readers to access the sources you used.

6.24 Using the Archival Copy or Version of Record

When using information and data retrieved online, check to see whether you are citing the appropriate version of your reference source. In-progress and final versions of the same work might coexist on the Internet, which can present challenges in determining which version is most current and most authoritative. In most cases, it is best to cite the archival version or version of record, which has been peer-reviewed and may pro­ vide additional links to online supplemental material. If the most current version avail­ able was an advance release version at the time that you originally cited it, recheck the source and update its publication status as close as possible to the publication date of your work (see section 6 .32) .

6.25 Order of References in the Reference List

The principles for arranging entries in a reference list are described next. You may also find it helpful to look at the reference list in Chapter 2 in the sample manuscript and at reference lists in journals that are published in APA Style.

Alphabetizing names. Arrange entries in alphabetical order by the surname of the first author followed by initials of the author's given name, and use the following rules for special cases:

• Alphabetize by the author's surname. This surname/given name formula is com­ monly used in Western countries but is less commonly used in many Eastern coun­ tries. If you are uncertain about the proper format for a name, check with the author for the preferred form or consult the author's previous publication for the common­ ly used form (e.g., Chen Zhe may publish under Zhe Chen in the United States) .

• Alphabetize letter by letter. When alphabetizing surnames, remember that "nothing precedes something" : Brown, J. R., precedes Browning, A. R., even though i pre­ cedes i in the alphabet.

Singh, Y., precedes Singh Siddhu, N . L6pez, M . E . , precedes L6pez d e Mol ina, G . I b n Abdu laziz, T. , precedes I bn N ida l , A . K . M . G i rard , J .-B . , precedes G i rard-Perregaux, A . S . Vi l lafuerte, S . A . , precedes Vi l la-Lobos, J . Benjamin , A . S . , precedes ben Yaakov, D .

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II Alphabetize the prefixes M', Mc, and Mac literally, not as if they were all spelled Mac. Disregard the apostrophe: MacArthur precedes McAllister, and MacNeil pre­ cedes M'Carthy.

II Alphabetize entries with numerals chronologically (e.g., Macomber, J . , I I , precedes Macomber, J . , I I I ) .

Order of several works by the same first author. When ordering several works by the same first author, give the author's name in the first and all subsequent references, and use the following rules to arrange the entries:

II One-author entries by the same author are arranged by year of publication, the ear­ liest first:

U pen ieks, V. (2003) . Upenieks, V. (2005) .

II One-author entries precede multiple-author entries beginning with the same sur­ name (even if the multiple-author work was published earlier) :

Al leyne, R . L . (2001 ) .

Al leyne, R . L . , & Evans, A J . ( 1 999) .

II References with the same first author and different second or third authors are arranged alphabetically by the surname of the second author or, if the second author is the same, the surname of the third author, and so on:

Boockvar, K. S . , & Burack, O. R. (2007) . Boockvar, K. S . , Carlson LaCorte, H . , Giambanco, V. , Fr iedman , B . , & Siu , A (2006) .

Hayward, D . , F i rsch ing, A, & Brown, J . ( 1 999) . Hayward, D . , F i rsching, A, & Smigel , J . ( 1 999) .

II References with the same authors in the same order are arranged by year of publi­ cation, the earliest first:

Cabading, J . R . , & Wright, K. (2000) . Cabading, J . R . , & Wright, K. (200 1 ) .

II References by the same author (or by the same two or more authors in the same order) with the same publication date are arranged alphabetically by title (excluding A or The).

Exception: If the references with the same authors published in the same year are iden­ tified as articles in a series (e.g., Part 1 and Part 2) , order the references in the series order, not alphabetically by title.

Place lowercase letters-a, b, c, and so forth-immediately after the year, within the parentheses:

Baheti, J. R. (2001 a ) . Control . . .

Baheti , J . R . (2001 b) . Roles of . . .

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Order of several works by different first authors with the same surname. Arrange works by different authors with the same surname alphabetically by first initial:

Mathur, A. L., & Wal lston , J. ( 1 999) . Mathur, S . E . , & Ahlers, R . J . ( 1 998) .

Note: Include initials with the surname of the first author in text citations (see sec­ tion 6 . 14 ) .

Order of works with group authors or with no authors. Occasionally, a work will have as its author an agency, association, or institution, or it will have no author at all.

Alphabetize group authors, such as associations or government agencies, by the first significant word of the name. Full official names should be used (e.g., American Psychological Association, not APA). A parent body precedes a subdivision (e.g., University of Michigan, Department of Psychology) .

If, and only if, the work i s signed "Anonymous, " begin the entry with the word Anonymous spelled out, and alphabetize the entry as if Anonymous were a true name.

If there is no author, move the title to the author position, and alphabetize the entry by the first significant word of the title.

Treat legal references like references with no author; that is, alphabetize legal ref­ erences by the first significant item in the entry (word or abbreviation) . See Appendix 7. 1 for the format of references for legal materials and ways to cite them in the text.

6.26 References Included in a Meta-Analysis

If the number of articles contributing studies to the meta-analysis is relatively small (e .g., about 50 or fewer) , they should appear in the reference list with an asterisk included to identify them. If the number of articles in the meta-analysis exceeds 50, then the references to the articles should be placed in a list and submitted as an online supplemental archive. In this second case, if an article is mentioned in the text and is included in the meta-analysis, it should be cited both in the reference list and in the supplemental materials.

Add the following statement before the first reference entry: References marked with an asterisk indicate studies included in the meta-analysis. The in-text citations to

studies selected for meta-analysis are not preceded by asterisks.

Bandura , A. J. ( 1 977) . Social learning theory. Englewood Cl iffs, NJ : Prentice Ha l l . * B retschneider, J . G . , & McCoy, N . L. ( 1 968) . Sexua l i nterest and behavior i n

healthy 80- to 1 02-year-olds . Archives o f Sexual Behavior. 14, 343-350.

Reference Components

In general, a reference should contain the author name, date of publication, title of the work, and publication data. The following sections (6 .27-6 .3 1 ) describe these components. Detailed notes on style accompany the description of each element, and example numbers given in parentheses correspond to examples in Chapter 7 in sec­ tions 7.01-7. 1 1 .

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6.27 Author and Editor Information

Authors. II Invert all authors' names; give surnames and initials for up to and including seven

authors (e.g., Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. ) . When authors number eight or more, include the first six authors' names, then insert three ellipsis points, and add the last author's name (see Chapter 7, Example 2) . In text, follow the citation guidelines in section 6 . 12 .

II If the reference list includes different authors with the same surname and first initial, the authors' full first names may be given in brackets:

Janet, P. [ Pau l ) . ( 1 876) . La notion de la personna l ite [The notion of persona l ity) . Revue Scientifique, 1 0, 574-575.

Janet, P. [P ierre) . ( 1 906) . The pathogenesis of some impu ls ions. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1, 1 -1 7.

In text: (Pau l Janet, 1 876) (Pierre Janet, 1 906)

!!II If an author's first name is hyphenated, retain the hyphen and include a period after each initial ( Lamour, J .-B . , for Jean-Baptiste Lamour) .

II Use commas to separate authors, to separate surnames and initials, and to separate initials and suffixes (e.g., Jr. and I I I ; see Chapter 7, Example 24); with two to seven authors, use an ampersand (&) before the last author.

II Spell out the full name of a group author (e.g., Roya l I nstitute of Technology; Nationa l I nstitute of Menta l Hea lth; see Chapter 7, Examples 31, 32, 35, 68 ) . In a reference to a work with a group author (e.g., study group, government agency, association, cor­ poration), a period follows the author element.

II If authors are listed with the word with, include them in the reference in parenthe­ ses: Bu latao, E. (with Winford, C. A). The text citation, however, refers to the pri­ mary author only.

II In a reference to a work with no author, move the title to the author position, before the date of publication (see Chapter 7, Examples 9, 30, 71 ) . A period follows the title .

Editors. II!l In a reference to an edited book, place the editors' names in the author position, and

enclose the abbreviation Ed. or Eds. in parentheses after the last editor's name. The period follows the parenthetical abbreviation (Eds . ) .

II In a reference to a chapter in an edited book, invert the chapter authors' names as noted above but do not invert book editors' names.

II The name of the book editor should be preceded by the word In. Provide initials and surnames for all editors (for substantial reference works with a large editorial board, naming the lead editor followed by et al. is acceptable ) .

Author, A A (2008) , Tit le of chapter. I n E . E . Editor (Ed . ) , Title of book (pp . xx-xx) . Location : Publ isher.

II For a book with no editor, simply include the word In before the book title.

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6.28 Publication Date

• Give in parentheses the year the work was published (for unpublished or informally published works, give the year the work was produced) .

• For magazines, newsletters, and newspapers, give the year and the exact date o f the publication (month or month and day), separated by a comma and enclosed in parentheses (see Chapter 7, Examples 7-1 1 ) . If the date is given as a season, give the year and the season, separated by a comma and enclosed in parentheses.

• For papers and posters presented at meetings, give the year and month of the meet­ ing, separated by a comma and enclosed in parentheses.

• Write in press in parentheses for articles that have been accepted for publication but that have not yet been published (see Chapter 7, Example 6 ) . Do not give a date until the article has actually been published. (To reference a paper that is still in progress, under review, or being revised, see Chapter 7, Example 59. )

• If no date is available, write n. d. in parentheses. • For several volumes in a multivolume work or several letters from the same collec­

tion, express the date as a range of years from earliest to latest ( see Chapter 7, Examples 23 and 65 ) .

• For archival sources, indicate an estimated date that i s reasonably certain but not stated on the document by using ca. (circa) and enclose the information in square brackets (see Chapter 7, Example 67) .

• Finish the element with a period after the closing parenthesis.

6.29 Title

Article or chapter title. Capitalize only the first word of the title and of the subtitle, if any, and any proper nouns; do not italicize the title or place quotation marks around it. Finish the element with a period.

Menta l and nervous d iseases in the Russo-Japanese war: A h istorica l ana lys is .

Periodical title: Journals, newsletters, magazines. Give the periodical title in full, in uppercase and lowercase letters. Italicize the name of the periodical.

Social Science Quarterly

Nonperiodical title: Books and reports.

• Capitalize only the first word of the title and of the subtitle, if any, and any proper nouns; italicize the title.

• Enclose additional information given on the publication for its identification and retrieval (e.g., edition, report number, volume number) in parentheses immediately after the title. Do not use a period between the title and the parenthetical informa­ tion; do not italicize the parenthetical information.

Development of entry-level tests to select FBI special agents (Pub l ication No. FR-PRD-94-06) .

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• If a volume is part of a larger, separately titled series or collection, treat the series and volume titles as a two-part title (see Chapter 7, Example 24) .

• Finish the element with a period.

Nonroutine information in titles. If nonroutine information is important for identification and retrieval, provide it in brackets immediately after the title and any parenthetical information. Capitalize the first letter of the notation. Brackets indicate a description of form, not a title. Here are some of the more common notations that help identify works:

Notation

[ Letter to the editor]

[Specia l issue]

[Specia l section]

[Monograph]

[Abstract]

[Audio podcast]

[Data f i le]

[B rochure]

[Motion p icture]

[ Lecture notes]

[CD]

[Computer software]

[Video webcast]

[Supplementa l materia l ]

6.30 Publ ication Information

Periodicals: Journals, newsletters, magazines.

• Give the volume number after the periodical title; italicize it. Do not use Vol. before the number.

• Include the journal issue number (if available) along with the volume number if the journal is paginated separately by issue (see Chapter 7, Examples 3, 7, 8 ) . Give the issue number in parentheses immediately after the volume number; do not italicize it. Give inclusive page numbers on which the cited material appears.

• Finish the element with a period.

Social Science Quarterly, 84, 508-525.

• Periodical publisher names and locations are generally not included in references, in accordance with long practice.

Nonperiodicals: Books and reports

• Give the location (city and state or, if outside of the United States, city and country) where the publisher is located as noted on the title page for books; reports; brochures; and other separate, nonperiodical publications.

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• If the publisher is a university and the name of the state or province is included in the name of the university, do not repeat the name in the publisher location.

• The names of u.s. states and territories are abbreviated in the reference list and in the Method section (suppliers' locations); use the official two-letter u.s. Postal Service abbreviations. To cite locations outside the United States, spell out the city and the country names. However, if you are publishing outside the United States or for an international readership, check your institution's or publisher's specific style guidelines for writing out or abbreviating state, province, territory, and country names.

• Use a colon after the location. • Give the name of the publisher in as brief a form as is intelligible. Write out the

names of associations, corporations, and university presses, but omit superfluous terms, such as Publishers, Co., and Inc., which are not required to identify the pub­ lisher. Retain the words Books and Press.

• If two or more publisher locations are given in the book, give the location listed first or, if specified, the location of the publisher's home office.

• When the author is also the publisher, use Author to indicate the publisher. • Finish the element with a period.

New York, NY: McGraw-H i l I .

Wash ington, DC: Author.

Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Pretoria, South Africa : Un isa .

6.3 1 Electronic Sources and Locator Information

Since this manual was last updated, electronic journal publishing has gone from being the exception to the rule. Publishing in the online environment has greatly increased the efficiency of publication processes and has contributed to a more vibrant and timely sharing of research results. However, the electronic dissemination of information has also led to a number of new publishing models. Unedited articles can now be dissem­ inated on the Internet in advance of publication. Links to supplementary material such as long data sets and videos can be embedded in electronic articles and made accessi­ ble with a simple click. Corrections that were formerly noted in a subsequent journal issue can now be made with no fanfare as a simple update to online files . All of these circumstances have called for new ways of tracking digital information.

In this new environment, some former models for referencing material no longer apply. It is not always clear how to distinguish the advance online version of an arti­ cle from the final published version or how to determine which is the "version of record" (see section 6.24 ) . Moreover, readers may be consulting the electronic version with supplemental material or the print version of the same article without supplemen­ tal material. In the ephemeral world of the web, article links are not always robust.

In general, we recommend that you include the same elements, in the same order, as you would for a reference to a fixed-media source and add as much electronic retrieval information as needed for others to locate the sources you cited. We discuss next some key elements of the electronic retrieval process, beginning with some general information about uniform resource locators (URLs) and digital object identifiers

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(DOls) and ending with formatting guidance for citing publication data from electron­ ic sources.

Understanding a URL. The URL is used to map digital information on the Internet. The components of a URL are as follows:

Protocol Host name Path to document 1 - I I II I I I I

http://www.apa.org/monitor/octOO/workplace.html I I I

Fi le name of specific

document

Protocol indicates what method a web browser (or other type of Internet software) should use to exchange data with the file server on which the desired document resides. The protocols recognized by most browsers are hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) , hypertext transfer protocol secure (HTTPS), and file transfer protocol (FTP) . In a URL, the protocol is followed by a colon and two forward slashes (e.g., http://) .

Host or domain name identifies the server on which the files reside. On the web, it is often the address for an organization's home page (e.g., http://www.apa.org is the address for APA's home page) . Although many domain names start with "www, " not all do (e.g., http://journals.apa.org is the home page for APA's electronic journals, and http://members.apa.org is the entry page to the members-only portion of the APA site ) . The domain name i s not case sensitive; for consistency and ease of reading, always type it in lowercase letters.

The domain name extension (in the preceding example, " .org" ) can help you deter­ mine the appropriateness of the source for your purpose. Different extensions are used depending on what entity hosts the site. For example, the extensions " .edu" and " .org" are for educational institutions and nonprofit organizations, respectively; " .gov" and " .mil" are used for government and military sites, respectively; and " .com" and " .biz" are used for commercial sites. Domain name extensions may also include a country code (e.g., " .ca" for Canada or " .nz" for New Zealand) . The rest of the address indi­ cates the directory path leading to the desired document.

All content on the Internet is prone to being moved, restructured, or deleted, resulting in broken hyperlinks and nonworking URLs in the reference list. In an attempt to resolve this problem, scholarly publishers have begun assigning a DOl to journal articles and other documents.

The 001 system. Developed by a group of international publishers, the DOl System provides a means of persistent identification for managing information on digital net­ works (see http://www.doi.orgl) . The DOl System is implemented through registration agencies such as CrossRef, which provides citation-linking services for the scientific publishing sector. According to their mission statement, CrossRef is dedicated "to enable easy identification and use of trustworthy electronic content by promoting the cooperative development and application of a sustainable infrastructure" (http://www.crossref.orgl) .

CrossRef's participants have developed a system that provides two critical func­ tions. First, they assign each article a "unique identifier and underlying routing sys­ tem" that functions as a clearinghouse to direct readers to content, regardless of where

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the content resides (Kasdorf, 2003, p. 646) . Second, they collaborate to use the DOl as an underlying linking mechanism "embedded" in the reference lists of electronic articles that allows click-through access to each reference. CrossRef currently has more than 2,600 participating publishers and scholarly societies.

The 001 as article identifier. A DOl is a unique alphanumeric string assigned by a registration agency (the International DOl Foundation) to identify content and provide a persistent link to its location on the Internet.

The publisher assigns a DOl when your article is published and made available electronically. All DOl numbers begin with a 1 0 and contain a prefix and a suffix sep­ arated by a slash. The prefix is a unique number of four or more digits assigned to organizations; the suffix is assigned by the publisher and was designed to be flexible with publisher identification standards. We recommend that when DOls are available, you include them for both print and electronic sources.

The DOl is typically located on the first page of the electronic journal article, near the copyright notice (see Figure 6.2) . The DOl can also be found on the database land­ ing page for the article (see Figure 6 .3 ) .

The linking function of DOls. The DaIs in the reference list function as links to the content you are referencing. The DOl may be hidden under a button labeled Article, CrossRef, PubMed, or another full-text vendor name (see Figure 6 .4) . Readers can then click on the button to view the actual article or to view an abstract and an oppor­ tunity to purchase a copy of the item. If the link is not live or if the DOl is referenced in a print publication, the reader can simply enter the DOl into the DOl resolver search field provided by the registration agency CrossRef.org and be directed to the article or a link to purchase it (see Figure 6.5 ) . Locating the article online with the DOl will give you electronic access to any onl ine supplemental archives associated with the article (see section 2 . 13 regarding supplemental materials) .

6.32 Providing Publ ication Data for Electronic Sources

• For electronic versions based on a print source (as in PDF), give inclusive page num­ bers for the article cited. Use pp. before the page numbers in references to newspa­ pers. See Chapter 7, Examples 1-3.

Joumal ofExperimefttai Psychology: Leamift8. Memory. aDd Copitioa 2008, Vol. 34. No. 3, 439-459

Copyright 2008 by the American Psydaological Association 0278-7393/081$11.00 .Wl: lo.l0371Dt!s..1393.34.3A3t

How to Say No: Single- and Dual-Process Theories of Short-Term

Recognition Tested on Negative Probes

Klaus Oberauer University of Bristol

Three experiments with shon-tenn recognition tasks are reported. In Experiments t and 2, participants decided whether a probe matched a list item specified by its spatial location. Items presented at study

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Full Record Display U n ique Identifier

2008-08834-01 0 Title

A taxonomy of behavior change techniques used in interventions . Publ ication Year

2008 Language

Engl ish Author

Abraham. Charles ; Michie. Susan Email

Abraham, Charles: s .c .s [email protected] .uk Correspondence Address

Charles Abra ham, Department of Psychology, U niversity of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton , England, BN1 9QG, s .c .s [email protected] .uk

Affi l iation

Abraham, Charles

M ichie, Susan

Source

Department of Psychology, U n iversity of Sussex, Brighton , E ngland

Department of Psychology, U n iversity Col lege London, London, England

Health Psychology. Vol 27(3), May 2008, 379-387 . I S S N

0278-61 33 ( Print) ; 1 930-781 0 (E lectronic) Publ isher

American Psychological Association : US Other Publ ishers

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, US Format Availabil ity

Electronic; Print Format Covered

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Journal ; Peer Reviewed Journal Document

I'.e1{WIDra S behavior change; intervention; content; techniques; taxonomy; CONSORT

I ndex Terms * B ehavior Cha nge; * H ealth Promotion ; * I ntervention ; *Taxonomies

Classification Codes 3300 Hea lth & Mental H ealth Treatment & Prevention

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• Provide the DOl, if one has been assigned to the content. Publishers who follow best practices publish the DOl prominently on the first page of an article. Because the DOl string can be long, it is safest to copy and paste whenever possible. Provide the alphanumeric string for the DOl exactly as published in the article. This is not a style issue but a retrieval issue.

• Use this format for the DOl in references: doi :xxxxxxx • When a DOl is used, no further retrieval information is needed to identify or locate

the content. • If no DOl has been assigned to the content, provide the home page URL of the jour­

nal or of the book or report publisher. If you are accessing the article from a private

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database, you may need to do a quick web search to locate this URL. Transcribe the URL correctly by copying it directly from the address window in your browser and pasting it into your working document (make sure the automatic hyphenation fea­ ture of your word processor is turned off) .

.. Do not insert a hyphen if you need to break a URL across lines; instead, break the URL before most punctuation (an exception would be http://) . Do not add a period after the URL, to prevent the impression that the period is part of the URL. This is not a style issue but a retrieval issue.

II Test URLs in your references at each stage prior to the submission and/or publica­ tion of your work. If the document you are citing has moved, update the URL so that it points to the correct location. If the content is no longer available, substitute another source (i .e., the final version if you originally cited a draft) or drop it from the paper altogether.

II In general, it is not necessary to include database information. Journal coverage in a particular database may change over time; also, if using an aggregator such as EBSCO, OVID, or Pro Quest (each of which contain many discipline-specific data­ bases, such as PsycINFO), it may be unclear exactly which database provided the full text of an article.

II Some archival documents (e.g., discontinued journals, monographs, dissertations, or papers not formally published) can only be found in electronic databases such as ERIC or JSTOR. When the document is not easily located through its primary pub­ lishing channels, give the home or entry page URL for the online archive.

II Do not include retrieval dates unless the source material may change over time (e.g., Wikis) .

• As with references to material in print or other fixed media, it is preferable to cite the final version (i .e., archival copy or version of record; see section 6.24) .

Reference Examples

This chapter contains examples of references in APA Style. The examples are grouped into the following categories: periodicals; books, reference books, and book chapters; technical and research reports; meetings and symposia; doctoral dissertations and master's theses; reviews and peer commentary; audiovisual media; data sets, software, measurement instruments, and apparatus; unpublished and informally pub­ lished works; archival documents and collections; and retrievable personal communica­ tions. In most categories, references to electronic or downloadable versions of each source type are integrated among references to print or other fixed media versions.

The most common kinds of references are illustrated here. Occasionally, however, you may need to use a reference for a source for which this chapter does not provide specific guidance. In such a case, choose the example that is most like your source and follow that format. Additional reference examples may be found on the APA Style website (www.apastyle.org) . When in doubt, provide more information rather than less. Because one purpose of listing references is to enable readers to retrieve and use the sources, most entries contain the following elements: author, year of publication, title, and publishing or retrieval data-all the information necessary for unique identi­ fication and library search.

Following is an index to the reference examples that lists types of work referenced and variations of each reference element. The numbers after each index entry refer to the numbered reference examples. Appendix 7.1 at the end of this chapter includes templates and example references to legal materials.

Types and Variations

Periodicals

abstract, 16, 17 advance online publication, 5

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Congressional Record (see Appendix 7. 1 , Example 16 ) edited issue of a journal, 12 editorial, 14 Federal Register (see Appendix 7. 1 , Example 18 ) in-press article, preprint archive, 6 issue of a journal, entire, 12 journal article, 1-6

with DOl, 1, 2, 5 without DOl, 3, 4

letter to the editor, 15 magazine article, 7 , 8 manuscript submitted to, 59 monograph, 13 newsletter article, 9 newspaper article, 10, 1 1 non-English article, 4 paginated by issue, 3 special issue, 12 special section, 12 supplement, monograph, 13 supplemental material, 1 5 synopsis (see abstract) translated article, 4

Books, Reference Books, and Book Chapters

book, entire, electronic version of print, 19 electronic version of republished, 21 electronic-only, 20 limited circulation, 22 print, 1 8

chapter in an edited book, 24-26 edited book, 22, 23, 27 entry in a reference book, 29, 30 manuscript submitted to, 59 multivolume work, 23 no author, 30 non-English book, 28 reference work, 27-30 reprinted work, 26 republished work, 21 review of, 45 revised or subsequent edition, 28, 30 series, 24 translated chapter in an edited book, 21 , 26

Technical and Research Reports

authored report, 33 corporate author, report from, 31 , 32 document deposit service, report from, 34 government report, corporate author, 31 institutional archive, report from, 34 issue brief, 35 nongovernmental organization, authored report, 33 task force report, 32

Meetings and Symposia

annually published proceedings, 38 conference paper abstract, retrieved online, 37 proceedings published, 38 , 39 symposium contribution, 36

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Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses

abstract in Dissertation Abstracts International, 43 doctoral dissertation,

from an institutional database, 41 from the web, 42

doctoral thesis, from university outside the United States, 44 master's thesis, from a commercial database, 40

Reviews and Peer Commentary

article, peer commentary on, 48 book, review of, 45 video, review of, 46 video game, review of, no author, 47

Audiovisual Media

map retrieved online, 53 music recording, 52 podcast, 50 television series, single episode from, 51 video, 49

Data Sets, Software, Measurement Instruments, a n d Apparatus

apparatus, 57 data set, 54

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measurement instrument, 55 software, 56

U npublished and Informally Published Works

informally published or self-archived work, 61 informally published or self-archived work, from ERIC, 62 manuscript in progress or submitted for publication, 59 personal communications (see section 6.20) unpublished,

manuscript with a university cited, 58 raw data from study, 60

Archival Documents and Collections

archival/historical source, author and/or date known or reasonably certain, not stated on document, 67

archival source, corporate author, 68 historical publication, limited circulation, 72 interview, recorded and available in an archive, 69 lectures, from archive or personal collection, 66 letters,

collection of, from an archive, 65 private collection, from a, 64 repository, from a, 63

newspaper article, historical, in an archive or personal collection, 71 photographs, 73 transcription of a recorded interview, no recording available, 70 unpublished papers, 66

Internet Message Boards, Electronic Mail ing Lists, and Other Online Communities

blog post, 76 message posted on,

an electronic mailing list, 75 a newsgroup, online forum, or discussion group, 74

video blog post, 77

Author Variations

associations, 32 author modified (e.g., as editor) , 12, 22, 23, 27 49-5 1 , 53 author as publisher, 28, 32, 35 collaborations (see section 6.27) corporate author, 28, 31, 32, 35, 49 editors, 21-27, 29

editorial board (see section 6.27),

in place of author, 12, 22, 23, 27 lead (see section 6.27), 22, 27 no editor, 30 number of (see section 6.27) of proceedings, 39 of special issues, 12 series, 24 volume, 23

government agency or institute, 3 1 group authors, 28, 3 1 , 32, 35, 49, 53, 54, 68, 72 hyphenated first name (see section 6 .27) initials and surname, order of (see section 6.27)

for the specific work referenced, 1-2

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for the book or collection in which the specific work is found, 2 1 , 25-26 Jr. in name, 24 name suffixes (Jr. , III ) , 24 (see section 6.27) number of authors

none, 9, 14, 30, 47 one, 5, 6, 8, 10, 1 8, 1 9, 20, 37, 40-45, 48, 61-66, 69, 70 two, 3, 4, 1 5, 1 7, 33, 34, 46, 58, 60 three, four, or five, 7, 13, 16, 38, 39, 59 eight or more, 2

private institute, 35 "with" authors (see section 6 .27)

Title Variations

non-English title (with translation), 4, 28 proper noun in title, 12, 13 , 15, 16, 32, 33, 54, 62, 66, 67, 70 revised or new edition, 28-30 subtitle (see two-part title) title within a title, 45, 46, 48 translated work, 21 , 26 translation of title into English, 4, 28 two-part title, 7, 8, 1 9, 21-24, 26, 3 1 , 34, 40, 42, 43, 54, 55, 59, 62, 70 untitled work, 47, 60 volume number(s) of a book, 23, 24, 39 volume number appearing with page numbers, 21

Publication Information Variations

author as publisher, 28, 3 1-35 electronic version of print book, 1 9 in-press journal article, S, 6 letter to the editor, 1 5 manuscript in preparation, 5 9 manuscript submitted but not yet accepted, 59 monograph, 13, 22

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no date (see section 6.28) , 20, 30, 47 pages discontinuous, 1 0 pagination b y issue rather than by volume, 3 publication outside the United States (see section 6.30) , 28 publication over period of more than 1 year, 23 publisher name shortened (see section 6.30) , 26 reprinted or republished work, 21, 26 undated work (see section 6 .28) , 20, 30, 47 unpublished work, 58, 60, 66

Exa mples by Type

7 .01 Periodicals Periodicals include items published on a regular basis such as journals, magazines, newspapers, and newsletters.

General reference form:

Author, A. A. , Author, B . B . , & Author, C. C. (year) . Title of artic le . Title of Periodical, xx, pp-pp. doi :xx.xxxxxxxxxx

• Include the digital object identifier (001) in the reference if one is assigned ( see sec­ tion 6 .3 1 ) .

• If no 001 i s assigned to the content and you retrieved it online, include the home page URL for the journal, newsletter, or magazine in the reference. Use this format: Retrieved from http://www.xxxxxxxx

• If each issue of a journal begins on page 1, give the issue number in parentheses immediately after the volume number.

• If you are citing an advance release version of the article, insert Advance on l ine pub­ l i cat ion before the retrieval statement.

II Some journals offer supplemental material that is available only online. To reference this supplemental material, or any other nonroutine information that is important for identification and retrieval, include a description of the content in brackets fol­ lowing the title: [ Lette r to the ed itor] , [Map] , [Audio podcastJ .

1 . Journal article with 001 Herbst-Damm, K. L . , & Ku l i k, J . A. (2005) . Volunteer support, marita l status, and

the surviva l t imes of termina l ly i l l patients. Health Psychology, 24, 225-229. doi : 1 0 . 1 037/027S-6 1 33 .24.2 .225

2. Journal article with 001. more than seven authors G i lbert, D . G . , McClernon, J . F. , Rabinovich, N . E . , Sugai , C . , Plath, L. C . ,

Asgaard, G . , . . . Botros, N . (2004) . Effects o f qu itti ng smoking on EEG activa­ tion and attention last for more than 31 days and a re more severe with stress, dependence, DRD2 A 1 a l le le, and depressive tra its. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 6, 249-267. doi : 1 0 . 1 OSO/1 462220041 0001 676305

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• Use the following in-text citation: (G i lbert et a I . , 2004) . • When a reference has up to seven authors, spell out all authors' names in the ref­

erence list.

3. Journal article without 001 (when 001 is not avai lable) S i l l ick, T. J. , & Schutte, N. S . (2006) . Emotional inte l l igence and self-esteem medi­

ate between perceived early pa renta l love and adu lt happiness. E-Journal of Applied Psychology, 2(2) , 38-48. Retrieved from http://ojs . l ib .swin .edu .au /index .php/ejap

Light, M. A. , & Light, I . H . (2008) . The geographic expansion of Mexican immigra­ tion in the U n ited States and its impl ications for local law enforcement . Law Enforcement Executive Forum Journal, 8( 1 ) , 73-82 .

• Include the issue number if the journal is paginated by issue. • If there is no DOl assigned and the reference was retrieved online, give the URL of

the journal home page. • No retrieval date is needed.

4. Journal article without 001, title translated into Engl ish, print version Gu imard, P. , & F lori n , A. (2007) . Les eva luations des enseignants en grande sec­

tion de materne l le sont-e l les pred ictives des d ifficu ltes de lectu re au cours preparatoire? IAre teacher ratings in kindergarten predictive of reading d ifficul­ ties i n f i rst grade? ) . Approche Neuropsychologique des Apprentissages chez I 'Enfant, 1 9, 5-1 7 .

• If the original version of a non-English article is used as the source, cite the original version. Give the original title and, in brackets, the English translation.

• If the English translation of a non-English article is used as the source, cite the English translation. Give the English title without brackets.

5. Journal article with 001, advance online publication Von Ledebur, S . C . (2007) . Optimiz ing knowledge transfer by new employees in

companies . Knowledge Management Research & Practice. Advance on l ine publ ication . doi : 1 0 . 1 057/pa lgrave. kmrp.85001 41

• This journal publishes four print issues per year but also offers individual articles online as soon as they are finalized. The content is assigned a DOl before it is assigned a volume, issue, or page numbers.

• If there is no DOl assigned and you retrieved the article electronically, give the URL of the journal home page.

• Definitions of advance online publication vary among journal publishers. Generally, the term refers to peer-reviewed work, but the content may not be copyedited or for­ matted for final production .

• Update your references close to the publication date of your work, and refer to final versions of your sources, if possible.

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6. In-press article posted in a preprint archive B riscoe, R . ( in press) . Egocentric spatia l representation in action and perception .

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Retrieved from http://cogpri nts .org/5780/1 /ECSRAP. F07 .pdf

III The exact URL is used because the article is informally published and not yet indexed on a journal website. Journal publishers that do not offer advance online publication may allow authors to post a version of their article online ahead of print in an outside repository, also called a preprint archive.

iii Update your references close to the publication date of your work and refer to the final version of a work, if possible.

7. Magazine article Chamberl in , J . , Novotney, A. , Packard, E. , & Price, M. (2008, May) . Enhancing

worker wel l-being : Occupational health psychologists convene to share their research on work, stress, and health . Monitor on Psychology, 39(5), 26-29.

8. Online magazine article Clay, R . (2008, June) . Science vs . ideology: Psychologists f ight back about the

m isuse of resea rch . Monitor on Psychology, 39(6) . Retr ieved from http://www.apa .org/mon itor/

9. Newsletter article, no author Six s ites meet for comprehensive anti-gang i n it iat ive conference. (2006,

November/December) . OJJDP News @ a Glance. Retr ieved from http://www. ncj rs .gov/htm l/ojjdp/news_acglance/2 1 6684/topstory. html

II The exact URL is helpful here because specific newsletter articles are difficult to locate from the government agency home page.

III Alphabetize works with no author by the first significant word in the title (in this case, "Six" ) .

!iii In text, use a short title (or the full title i f it i s short) enclosed i n quotation marks for the parenthetical citation: ( " Six S ites Meet, " 2006).

1 0. Newspaper article Schwartz, J. ( 1 993, September 30) . Obesity affects economic, socia l status . The

Washington Post, pp. A 1 , A4.

!iii Precede page numbers for newspaper articles with p. or pp. Ill! If an article appears on discontinuous pages, give all page numbers, and separate the

numbers with a comma (e.g" pp. Bl, B3, B5-B7) .

1 1 . Online newspaper article B rody, J. E. (2007, December 1 1 ) . Menta l reserves keep bra in ag i le . The New York

Times. Retr ieved from http://www. nyt imes .com

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.. Give the URL of the home page when the online version of the article is available by search to avoid nonworking URLs.

12. Special issue or section in a journal Haney, C., & Wiener, R. L. (Eds . ) . (2004) . Capita l pun ishment in the U n ited States

[Specia l issue] . Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 1 0(4) .

G reenfield, P. , & Van, Z. (Eds . ) . (2006) . Ch i ldren, adolescents, and the I nternet [Specia l section ] . Developmental Psychology, 42, 391 -394. doi : 1 0 . 1 037/00 1 2 -1 649.42 .3 .391

.. To cite an entire issue or special section of a journal, give the editors of the issue and the title of the issue .

.. If the issue has no editors, move the issue title to the author position, before the year of publication, and end the title with a period. Alphabetize the reference entry by the first significant word in the title. In text, use a shortened title enclosed in quotation marks for the parenthetical citation: ( " Capita l Pun ishment, " 2004) .

.. Provide the page range for special sections. II To reference an article within a special issue, simply follow the format shown in

Examples 1-4.

13. Monograph as part of journal issue Ganster, D. C . , Schaubroeck, J . , Sime, W. E . , & Mayes, B. T. ( 1 99 1 ) . The nomo­

logica l va l id ity of the Type A personal ity among employed adu lts [Monograph ] . Journal of Applied Psychology, 76, 1 43-1 68. doi : 1 0 . 1 037/002 1 -90 1 0 .76 . 1 . 1 43

.. For a monograph with an issue (or whole) number, include the issue number in parentheses followed by the serial number, for example, 58( 1 , Seria l No. 23 1 ) .

.. For a monograph bound separately as a supplement to a journal, give the issue num­ ber and supplement or part number in parentheses after the volume number, for example, 80(3, Pt. 2 ) .

1 4. Editorial without signature Editoria l : "What is a d isaster" and why does th is question matter? [ Ed itoria l ] .

(2006) . Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 14, 1 -2 .

1 5. Online-only supplemental material i n a periodical Marsha l l-Pesc in i , S. , & Whiten, A. (2008) . Socia l learning of n ut-cracking behavior

i n East African sanctuary-l iving ch impanzees ( Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) [Supplementa l materia l ] . Journal of Comparative Psychology, 122, 1 86-1 94. doi : 1 0 . 1 037/0735-7036 . 1 22 .2 . 1 86.supp

.. The description of supplemental material or other nonroutine information (e .g. , a letter to the editor, podcast, or map) is included in brackets to help the reader iden­ tify and retrieve the material .

.. If no author is indicated, move the title and bracketed description to the author position .

.. In text, use the following parenthetical citation (Marsha l l-Pesc in i & Whiten , 2008) .

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16. Abstract as original source Woolf, N . J . , Young, S. L . , Fanselow, M. S. , & Butcher, L. L. ( 1 99 1 ) . MAP-2 expres­

sion in chol inoceptive pyramidal cel l s of rodent cortex and h ippocampus is a ltered by Pavlovian condition ing [Abstract] . Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 1 7, 480.

Lassen , S. R . , Steele, M. M . , & Sa i lor, W. (2006) . The relationsh ip of school-wide positive behavior support to academic ach ievement i n an u rban midd le schoo l . Psychology in the Schools, 43, 701 -7 1 2 . Abstract retrieved from http://www. interscience.wi ley.com

II Although it is preferable to cite the full text of an article, abstracts can be used as sources and included in the reference list.

1 7. Abstract as secondary source Hare, L. R . , & O'Ne i l l , K. (2000) . Effectiveness and efficiency in sma l l academic

peer groups. Small Group Research, 3 1 , 24-53 . Abstract retrieved from Sociologica l Abstracts database. (Accession No. 20001 0 1 85)

II Although it is preferable to cite the full text of an article, abstracts can be used as sources and included in the reference list.

1\1 Database names and abstract identifier (if applicable) may be given for material of limited circulation.

7.02 Books, Reference Books, and Book Chapters

This category includes books and reference books such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, and discipline-specific reference books (e.g., Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; see example at www.apastyle.org) . It also includes books that are published in electronic form only, reference works and public domain books available online, and out-of-print books that may be available only in online repositories. When DOIs are assigned, use them as noted in the examples that follow.

For an entire book, use the following reference formats:

Author, A A ( 1 967) . Title of work. Location : Publ isher. Author, A A ( 1 997) . Title of work. Retrieved from http ://www.xxxxxxx Author, A A (2006) . Title of work. doi :xxxxx Editor, A A (Ed . ) . ( 1 986) . Title of work. Location : Publ isher.

For a chapter in a book or entry in a reference book, use the following formats: Author, A A , & Author, B. B. ( 1 995) . Tit le of chapter or entry. I n A Editor, B .

Editor, & C . Ed itor (Eds. ) , Title of book (pp. xxx-xxx) . Location : Pub l isher. Author, A A , & Author, B . B. ( 1 993) . Tit le of chapter or entry. I n A Editor & B .

Ed itor (Eds . ) , Title o f book (pp. xxx-xxx) . Retrieved from http ://www.xxxxxxx

Author, A A, & Author, B. B. ( 1 995) . Title of chapter or entry. I n A Editor, B. Editor, & C. Editor (Eds.) , Title of book (pp. xxx-xxx) . doi :xxxxxxxx

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• If there are no page numbers, the chapter or entry title is sufficient.

For an entry in a reference work with no byline, use the following formats: lit le of entry. ( 1 998) . I n A. Editor (Ed . ) , 77tle of reference work (xx ed . , Vol . xx, pp.

xxx-xxx) . Location : Pub l isher.

litle of entry. ( 1 998) . I n 77tle of reference work (xx ed . , Vol . xx) . Retrieved from http://www.xxxxxxxxx

• When the author and publisher are the same, use the word Author as the name of the publisher.

• Alphabetize books with no author or editor by the first significant word in the title. In the text citation, use a few words of the title, or the whole title if it is short, in place of an author name.

• Place information about editions, volume numbers, and page numbers (such as revised edition, volume number, or chapter page range) in parentheses following the title, with the period after the parentheses: (Rev. ed . ) or (Vo l . xx, pp . xxx-xxx) . As with periodicals, for any nonroutine information that is important for identification and retrieval, place a description of content in brackets following the title: [ B rochurel .

• For major reference works with a large editorial board, you may list the name of the lead editor, followed by et al.

• For books or chapters available only online, the electronic retrieval statement takes the place of publisher location and name (see Examples 1 9-22, 24) .

1 8. Entire book, print version Shotton , M. A. ( 1 989) . Computer addiction ? A study of computer dependency.

London, Eng land : Taylor & Francis .

19. Electronic version of print book Shotton , M. A. ( 1 989) . Computer addiction ? A study of computer dependency [DX

Reader vers i on ] . Retr i eved from http ://www. ebookstore . ta n df . co . u k /htm l/index.asp

Sch i ra l d i , G. R. (200 1 ) . The post-traumatic stress disorder sourcebook: A guide to healing, recovery, and growth [Adobe D ig ita l Ed it ions vers ion ] . doi : 1 0 . 1 036/007 1 393722

20. Electronic-only book O'Keefe, E. ( n .d . ) . Egoism & the cnsls In Western values. Retrieved from

http://www.on l ineorig ina ls .com/showitem.asp? item I D= 1 35

21 . Electronic version of republ ished book Freud, S . ( 1 953) . The method of interpreting d reams : An ana lysis of a specimen

d ream . In J . Strachey (Ed. & Trans . ) , The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vo l . 4, pp . 96-1 2 1 ) . Retr ieved from http ://books.goog le .com/books (Orig ina l work pub l ished 1 900)

_ E X A M P L E S B Y T Y P E

III In text, use the following citation: ( Freud, 1 900/1 953) .

22. Limited-circulation book or monograph, from electronic database Thomas, N. (Ed . ) . (2002) . Perspectives on the community college: A journey of

discovery [Monograph) . Retrieved from http://eric .ed .gov/

III Database information may be given for items of limited circulation.

23. Several volumes in a multivolume work Koch , S . (Ed . ) . ( 1 959-1 963) . Psychology: A study of science (Vols . 1 -6) . New York,

NY: McGraw-H i l I .

III In text, use the following parenthetical citation: (Koch, 1 959-1 963) .

24. Electronic version of book chapter in a volume in a series Strong, E. K., J r. , & U hrbrock, R. S. ( 1 923) . B ib l iography on job ana lys is . In L.

Outhwaite (Series Ed . ) , Personnel Research Series: Vol. 1. Job analysis and the curriculum (pp. 1 40-1 46) . doi : 1 0 . 1 037/1 0762-000

III If the content has been assigned a DOl, give the DOl in the reference. No URL or database name is needed.

III In regularly published series with subtitles that change regularly, the series title is uppercase and the subtitle is lowercase, as in a book title.

25. Book chapter, print version Haybron, D . M. (2008) . Ph i losophy and the science of subjective wel l-be ing . I n M .

E id & R .� . Larsen (Eds . ) . The science o f subjective well-being (pp . 1 7-43) . New York, NY: Gu i lford Press .

26. Book chapter, Engl ish translation, reprinted from another source Piaget, J. ( 1 988) . Extracts from Piaget's theory (G . Gel lerier & J. Langer, Trans . ) . I n

K . Richardson & S . Sheldon (Eds . ) , Cognitive development to adolescence: A reader (pp. 3-1 8) . H i l lsda le, NJ : Er lbaum. (Reprinted from Manual of child psy­ chology, pp. 703-732, by P. H . Mussen, Ed. , 1 970, New York, NY: Wi ley)

III If the English tran:slation of a non-English work is used as the source, cite the English translation. Give the English title without brackets, followed by the translator's name in parentheses.

III In text, use the following parenthetical citation: (Piaget, 1 970/1 988) .

27. Reference book VandenBos, G . R. (Ed . ) . (2007) . APA dictionary of psychology. Wash ington , DC:

American Psycholog ica l Association .

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28. Non-Engl ish reference book, title translated into Engl ish Real Academia Espanola . (2001 ) . Diccionario de la lengua espanola [D ict ionary of

the Span ish language] (22nd edJ Madrid, Spa i n : Author.

• If a non-English reference work is used as the source, give the title in the original lan­ guage and, in brackets, the English translation.

29. Entry in an online reference work Graham, G. (2005) . Behaviorism, In E, N. Za lta (Ed , ) , The Stanford encyclopedia of

philosophy ( Fa l l 2007 ed J Retrieved from http://plato . stanford .edu/entries /behaviorism/

30. Entry in an onl ine reference work, no author or editor Heuristic. ( n . d . ) . In Merriam-Webster's online dictionary ( 1 1 th ed . ) . Retrieved from

http ://www. m-w.com/dictiona ry/heuristic

• If the online version refers to a print edition, include the edition number after the title.

7.03 Technical and Research Reports

Technical and research reports, like journal articles, usually cover original research but may or may not be peer reviewed. They are part of a body of literature sometimes referred to as gray literature, which "can serve a valuable supplementary role to for­ mal publication, including additional resources, details, research methods and experi­ mental techniques" ( "Gray literature," 2006 ) . Format references to technical and research reports as you would a book.

Author, A. A. ( 1 998) . Title of work (Report No. xxx) . Locat ion : Pub l isher.

• If the issuing organization assigned a number (e.g., report number, contract number, monograph number) to the report, give that number in parentheses immediately after the title.

• If you obtained a report from the U.S. Government Printing Office, list the publish­ er location and name as Washington, DC: Government Pri nti ng Office.

• For reports retrieved online, identify the publisher as part of the retrieval statement unless the publisher has been identified as the author: Retrieved from Agency name website : http://wWw.xxxxxxx

31 . Corporate author, government report U .S . Department of Hea lth and Human Services, Nationa l I nstitutes of Health ,

Nat ional Heart, Lung, and B lood I nstitute . (2003) . Managing asthma: A guide for schools ( N I H Publ ication No. 02-2650) . Retrieved from http://www. nh lb i . n i h .gov/health/prof/l ung/asthma/asth_sch .pdf

E X A M P L E S B Y T Y P E

32. Corporate author, task force report filed online America n Psycho log ica l Association , Task Force on the Sexua l izat ion of G i r l s .

(2007) . Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls. Retrieved from http://www.apa .org/pi!wpo/sexua l ization . html

33. Authored report, from nongovernmental organization Kessy, S. S . A. , & U rio, F. M. (2006) . The contribution of microfinance institutions

to poverty reduction in Tanzania ( Research Report No . 06 .3 ) . Retrieved from Resea rch on Poverty Al leviat ion webs ite : http ://www. repoa .or. tz /documents_storage/Publ ications/Reports/06.3_Kessy_and_Urio.pdf

34. Report from institutional archive McDanie l , J . E . , & M iskel , C. G. (2002) . The effect of groups and individuals on

national decisionmaking: Influence and domination in the reading policymak­

ing en vironment (C I ERA Report 3-025) . Retrieved from U n ivers ity of M ich igan, Center for I mprovement of Ea rly Read ing Ach ievement website : http ://www.ciera .org/l ibrary/reports/inqu i ry-3/3-025/3-025 . pdf

35. Issue brief Employee Benefit Research Institute . ( 1 992, February) . Sources of health insur­

ance and characteristics of the uninsured ( Issue B rief No. 1 23) . Wash ington , DC: Author.

II Use this form for issue briefs, working papers, and other corporate documents, with the appropriate document number for retrieval in parentheses.

7.04 Meetings and Symposia

Proceedings of meetings and symposia can be published in book or periodical form. To cite published proceedings from a book, use the same format as for a book or book chapter (see Example 39) . To cite proceedings that are published regularly, use the same format as for a periodical ( see Example 38 ) . For contributions to symposia or for paper or poster presentations that have not been formally published, use the following templates.

Symposium:

Contr ibutor, A. A . , Contr ibutor, B . B . , Contr ibutor, C . C . , & Contr ibutor, D . D . (Yea r, Month ) . Tit le of contribution . I n E . E . Cha i rperson (Cha i r) , Title of symposium. Sympos ium conducted at the meeti ng of O rgan ization Name , Location .

Paper presentation or poster session:

Presenter, A. A. (Year, Month) . Title of paper or poster. Paper or poster session presented at the meeting of Organization Name, Location .

III For symposium contributions and paper or poster presentations that have not been for­ mally published, give the month and year of the symposium or meeting in the reference.

R E F E R E N C E E X A M P L E S

36. Symposium contribution M uel lbauer, J. (2007, September) . Housing, credit, and consumer expenditure . In S .

C . Ludvigson (Chair) , Housing and consumer behavior. Sympos ium conducted at the meeting of the Federa l Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, WY.

37. Conference paper abstract retrieved online Liu , S . (2005, May) . Defending against business crises with the help of intelligent

agent based early warning solutions. Paper presented at the Seventh I nternat ional Conference on Enterprise I nformation Systems, M iami , FL . Abstract retrieved from http://www. iceis .org/iceis2005/abstracts_2005. htm

38. Proceedings publ ished regularly online Herculano-Houzel , S. , Col l i ns, C . E. , Wong, P. , Kaas, J. H . , & Lent, R. (2008) . The

basic nonun iform ity of the cerebra l cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 105, 1 2593-1 2598. doi : 1 0 . 1 073/pnas .080541 71 05

39. Proceedings publ ished in book form Katz, I . , Gabayan , K . , & Aghajan , H . (2007) . A mu l ti-touch surface us ing m u lt ip le

cameras . In J . B lanc-Talon, W. Ph i l ips, D . Popescu , & P. Scheunders (Eds . ) , Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Vol. 4678. Advanced Concepts for

Intelligent Vision Systems (pp. 97-1 08) . doi : 1 0 . 1 007/978-3-540-74607-2_9

7 .05 Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses

Doctoral dissertations and master's theses can be retrieved from subscription databas­ es, institutional archives, and personal websites. If the work is retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database (whose index and abstracting sources include Dissertation Abstracts International [DAI] and Master's Theses International, both published by University Microforms International, and American Doctoral Dissertations, published by Association of Research Libraries) or another published source, include this information in the reference.

For a doctoral dissertation or master's thesis available from a database service, use the following reference template:

Author, A. A. (2003) . Title of doctoral dissertation or master's thesis (Doctora l d is­ sertation or master's thesis) . Retrieved from Name of database. (Accession or Order No . )

For an unpublished dissertation or thesis, use the following template:

Author, A. A. ( 1 978) . Title of doctoral dissertation or master's thesis (Unpub l ished doctora l d issertation or master's thesis) . Name of I nstitut ion, Location .

• Italicize the title of a doctoral dissertation or master's thesis . • Identify the work as a doctoral dissertation or master's thesis in parentheses after the

title.

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lIB If the paper is available through a database, give the accession or order number in parentheses at the end of the reference.

40. Master's thesis, from a commercial database McNie l , D. S. (2006) . Meaning through narrative: A personal narrative discussing

growing up with an alcoholic mother (Master's thes is ) . Ava i l ab le from ProQuest D issertations and Theses database . (U M I No. 1 434728)

41 . Doctoral dissertation, from an institutional database Adams, R. J. ( 1 973) . Building a foundation for evaluation of instruction in higher

education and continuing education (Doctora l d issertation) . Retrieved from http://www.ohiol i nk .edu/etd/

42. Doctoral dissertation, from the web Bruckman, A. ( 1 997) . MOOSE Crossing: Construction, community, and learning in

a networked virtual world for kids (Doctora l d issertation , Massachusetts I nstitute of Tech nology) . Retrieved from http://www-stat ic .cc . gatech . edu / -asb/thesis/

43. Doctoral d issertation, abstracted in DAI Appelbaum, L. G . (2005) . Th ree studies of human information processing : Textu re

amp l if icat ion , motion representat ion , and f ig u re-g round segregat ion . Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B . Sciences and Engineering,

65( 1 0) ' 5428.

44. Doctoral thesis, from a university outside the United States Carlbom, P. (2000) . Carbody and passengers in rail vehicle dynamics (Doctora l the­

sis , Roya l I nstitute of Technology, Stockho lm, Sweden) . Retrieved from http://u rn . kb . se/resolve?urn=urn : nbn :se : kth :d iva-3029

7.06 Reviews and Peer Commentary

Reviews of books, motion pictures, and other information or entertainment products are published in a variety of venues, including periodicals, websites, and blogs. Some publications will print author responses to a reviewer's criticism or multiple reviews of the same product.

Reviewer, A. A. (2000) . litle of review [Review of the book Title of book, by A. A. Author! . Title of complete work, xx, xxx-xxx.

II If the review is untitled, use the material in brackets as the title; retain the brackets to indicate that the material is a description of form and content, not a title .

III Identify the type of medium being reviewed in brackets (book, motion picture, tele­ vision program, etc . ) .

III! I f the reviewed item i s a book, include the author names after the title of the book, separated by a comma.

!Ill If the reviewed item is a film, DVD, or other media, include the year of release after the title of the work, separated by a comma.

R E F E R E N C E E X A M P L E S

45. Review of a book It

Schatz, B . R . (2000, November 1 7) . Learning by text or context? [Review of the book The social life of information, by J. S . B rown & P. Dugu id] . Science, 290, 1 304. doi : 1 0 . 1 1 26/science .290 .5495. 1 304

46. Review of a video Axelman, A., & Shapiro, J. L. (2007) . Does the sol ution warrant the prob lem?

[Review of the DVD Brief therapy with adolescents, produced by the America n Psycho log ica l Assoc iation , 2007 ] . PsycCRITlQUES, 52( 5 1 ) . doi : 1 0 . 1 037 /a0009036

47. Review of a video game, no author [Review of the video game BioShock, produced by 2K Games, 2007] . (n . d . ) .

Retrieved from http ://www.whattheyplay.com/products/bioshock-for-xbox -360/?fm=3&ob= 1 &t=0#1 66

48. Peer commentary on an article Wolf, K. S. (2005) . The future for Deaf individuals is not that bleak [ Peer commen­

tary on the paper " Decrease of Deaf potentia l i n a mainstreamed environ­ ment" by K. S. Wolf] . Retrieved from http://www. persona l ityresearch .org /papers/ha l l . html#wolf

7 .07 Audiovisua l Media

Audiovisual media include motion pictures; audio or television broadcasts ( including podcasts); and static objects such as maps, artwork, or photos.

For a motion picture, use the following format:

Producer, A. A. ( Producer), & Di rector, B . B . (D i rector) . (Year) . Title of motion pic- ture [Motion p icture] . Country of Orig in : Studio. f_

For a music recording, use the following format:

Writer, A. (Copyright year) . litle of song [Recorded by B . B . Artist if d ifferent from writer] . On Title of album [Medium of record ing : CD, record, cassette, etc . ] Location: Labe l . (Date of recording i f d ifferent from song copyright date)

• List the primary contributors in the author position and use parentheses to identify their contribution.

."

• For an episode from a television or radio series, use the same f6rmat as for a chap- ter in a book, but list the script writer and director in the author position and the producer in the editor position.

49. Video American Psycholog ica l Association (Producer) . (2000) . Responding therapeuti­

cal/y to patient expressions of sexual attraction [ DVD] . Ava i lab le from http://www.apa .org/videos/

E X A M P L E S B Y T Y P E

50. Podcast Van N uys, D . (Producer) . (2007, December 1 9) . Shrink rap radio [Audio podcast] .

Retrieved from http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/

51 . Single episode from a television series Egan, D. (Writer). & Alexander, J. (D i rector) . (2005) . Fa i l u re to commun icate

[Te levis ion series episode] . In D. Shore (Executive producer). House. New York, NY: Fox Broadcasting .

52. Music recording l ang , k . d . (2008) . Shadow and the frame . On Watershed [CD ) . New York, NY:

Nonesuch Records .

I!Ii1 In text citations, include side and band or track numbers: " Shadow and the Frame" ( lang, 2008, track 1 0) .

53. Map retrieved online Lewis Cou nty Geograph i c I nformat ion Serv ices (Ca rtog raphe r) . (2002 ) .

Popu lat ion density, 2000 U .S . Census [Demograph ic map] . Retrieved from http://www.co . l ewis .wa . us/pub l icworks/maps/Demogra p h ics/census-pop -dens_2000.pdf

7.08 Data Sets, Software, Measurement Instruments, and Apparatus

This category includes raw data and tools that aid persons in performing a task such as data analysis or measurement. Reference entries are not necessary for standard soft­ ware and programming languages, such as Microsoft Word or Excel, Java, Adobe Photoshop, and even SAS and SPSS. In text, give the proper name of the software, along with the version number. Do provide reference entries for specialized software or computer programs with limited distribution.

or

Rightsholder, A. A. (Year) . Tit le of program (Version number) [Description of form] . Location : Name of producer.

R ightsholder, A. A. (Year) . Tit le of program [Description of form) . Retrieved from http://xxxx

II\!! Do not italicize the names of software, programs, or languages. III Do italicize the title of a data set. lIB If an individual has proprietary rights to the software, name him or her as the

author; otherwise, treat such references as unauthored works. III In parentheses immediately after the title, identify the version number, if any. BiI In brackets immediately after the title or version number, identify the source as a

computer program, language, software, and so forth. Do not use a period between the title and the bracketed material.

R E F E R E N C E E X A M P L E S

• Give the location and name of the organization that produced the work, if applica­ ble, in the publisher position. If the program can be downloaded or ordered from the web, give this information in the publisher position .

• For an apparatus patent, use the legal reference format (see Appendix 7. 1 ) .

54. Data set Pew H ispan ic Center. (2004) . Changing channels and crisscrossing cultures: A

survey of Latinos on the news media [Data f i le and code book) . Retrieved from http ://pewh ispan ic .org/datasets/

55. Measurement instrument Fried lander, M . L . , Escudero, V. , & Heather ington , L. (2002) . E-SOFTA: System for

observ ing fa m i ly therapy a l l ia nces [Softwa re and tra i n i ng v ideos) . U npub l ished i nstrument. Retrieved from http://www.softa-soatif.com/

56. Software Comprehensive Meta-Ana lysis (Version 2) [Computer software) . Eng lewood, NJ :

B iostat.

57. Apparatus Eye l i n k I I [Apparatus and software) . (2004) . M ississauga , Ontar io, Canada : S R

Resea rch .

7.09 U npublished and Informally Published Works

Unpublished work includes work that is in progress, has been submitted for publica­ tion, or has been completed but not submitted for publication. This category also includes work that has not been formally published but is available on a personal or institutional website, an electronic archive such as ERIC, or a preprint archive.

Author, A. A. (Year) . TItle of manuscript. Unpubl ished manuscr ipt [or " Manuscript submitted for pub l ication, " or " Manuscript in preparation " ] .

• If the work is available on an electronic archive, give this information at the end . • Update your references frequently prior to publication of your work; refer to the

final published version of sources when possible.

58. Unpubl ished manuscript with a un iversity cited B lackwel l , E . , & Conrod, P. J . (2003) . A five-dimensional measure of drinking

motives. U npubl ished manuscript, Department of Psychology, U n ivers ity of B rit ish Columbia, Vancouver, Canada .

59. Manuscript in progress or submitted for publication Ting, J. Y., Florshe im, P., & H uang, W. (2008) . Mental health help-seeking in eth­

nic minority populations: A theoretical perspective. Manuscr ipt submitted for publ ication .

_ E X A M P L E S B Y T Y P E

• Do not give the name of the journal or publisher to which the manuscript has been submitted.

• Treat a manuscript accepted for publication but not yet published as an in-press ref­ erence ( see Example 6) .

• Use the same format for a draft or work in progress, but substitute the words Manuscript in preparation for the final sentence. Use the year of the draft you read (not in preparation) in the text citation.

60. Unpubl ished raw data from study, untitled work Bordi , F. , & LeDoux, J . E. ( 1 993) . [Auditory response latencies in rat auditory cor­

tex] . U npub l ished raw data .

61 . Informally publ ished or self-archived work M itche l l , S. D. (2000) . The import of uncertainty. Retrieved from http ://

ph i lsci-a rch ive . pitt .edu/a rch ive/000001 62/

This work was later published in a journal and would now be referenced as follows:

Mitche l l , S. D. (2007) . The import of uncerta inty. The Pluralist, 2( 1 ) . 58-7 1 .

62. Informally publ ished or self-archived work, from ERIC Kubota, K. (2007) . " Soaking " model for learning: Analyzing Japanese learn­

ing/teaching process from a socia-historical perspective. Retrieved from ER IC database. (ED498566)

7 . 1 0 Archival Documents and Col lections

Archival sources include letters, unpublished manuscripts, limited-circulation brochures and pamphlets, in-house institutional and corporate documents, clippings, and other documents, as well as such nontext materials as photographs and appara­ tus, that are in the personal possession of an author, form part of an institutional col­ lection, or are stored in an archive such as the Archives of the History of American Psychology at the University of Akron or the APA Archives.

Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day) . Title of material. [Description of materia l ] . Name of Col lection (Ca l l number, Box number, F i le name or number, etc . ) . Name of Repository, Location .

• This general format may be modified for collections requiring more or less specific information to locate materials, for different types of collections, or for additional descriptive information (e.g., a translation of a letter) . Authors may choose to list correspondence from their own personal collections, but correspondence from other private collections should be listed only with the permission of the collector.

1m As with any reference, the purpose is to direct the reader to the source, despite the fact that only a single copy of the document may be available and the reader may have some difficulty actually seeing a copy.

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• Include as much information as is needed to help locate the item with reasonable ease within the repository. For items from collections with detailed finding aids, the name of the collection may be sufficient; for items from collections without finding aids, more information (e.g. , call number, box number, file name or number) may be necessary to help locate the item.

• If several letters are cited from the same collection, list the collection as a reference and provide specific identifying information (author, recipient, and date) for each letter in the in-text citations.

• Use square brackets to indicate information that does not appear on the document. Use question marks to indicate uncertainty regarding names and dates; use ca. (circa, not italicized) to indicate estimated dates (see Example 67) .

• For interviews and oral histories, list the interviewee as the author. Include the inter­ viewer's name in the description.

• If a publication of limited circulation is available in libraries, the reference may be formatted as usual for published material, without the archival source.

63. Letter from 8 repository Frank, l. K. ( 1 935, February 4) . [ Letter to Robert M . Ogde n ) . Rockefe l l e r Arch ive

Center (G E B series 1 .3 , Box 371 , Folder 3877), Ta rrytown , NY.

64. Letter from private collection Zachar ius , G. P. ( 1 953, August 1 5) . [ Letter to Wi l l ia m R ickel (W. R icke l , Tra n s . ) ) .

Copy i n possess ion o f Hendr ika Vande Kem p .

65. Collection of letters from an archive Al l port, G . W. ( 1 930-1 967) . Correspondence. Gordon W. Al lport Pa pers ( H U G

41 1 8 . 1 0) . Harva rd U n ivers ity Arch ives, Cambridge, MA.

In-text citations of specific letters: (Al l port, G . W. , 1 930-1 967, Al l port to E. G. Bor ing, M a rch 1 , 1 939) (Al l port, G. W. , 1 930-1 967, E. G. Bor i ng to Al l port , December 26, 1 937)

• Note that Examples 63 and 65 refer to archival materials that can be recovered and thus include full reference list details that allow the reader to find them. Private let­ ters and correspondence that are not easily retrievable are considered personal com­ munications and are cited only in text (see section 6 ,20 ) .

66. Unpublished papers, lectures from an archive o r personal col lection Berl iner, A. ( 1 959) . Notes for a lecture on reminiscences of Wundt and Leipzig.

Anna Ber l in e r Memoirs (Box M50) . Arch ives of the H istory of America n Psychology, U n ivers ity of Akron, Akron, O H .

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67. Archival/historical source for which the author and/or date is known or is reason­ ably certain but not stated on the document

[Al l port, A. ? ] . [ca . 1 937] . Marion Taylor today-by the biographer. U npub l ished manuscr ipt, Marion Taylor Papers . Sch les inger L ibrary, Radcl iffe Co l lege, Cambridge, MA.

68. Archival source with corporate author Subcommittee on Menta l Hyg iene Personne l in School Programs . ( 1 949,

November 5-6) . Meeting of Subcommittee on Mental Hygiene Personnel in School Programs. David Shakow Papers (M 1 360). Arch ives of the H istory of American Psychology, Un iversity of Akron, Akron, O H .

69. Interview recorded and avai lable in a n archive Smith, M . B. ( 1 989, August 1 2) . I nterview by C. A. Kies ler [Tape record ing) .

President's Ora l History Project. American Psycholog ica l Association . APA Arch ives, Wash ington, DC.

70. Transcription of a recorded interview, no recording avai lable Sparkman, C . F. ( 1 973) . An oral history with Dr. Colley F. Sparkman/Interviewer:

Orley B. Caudill. Mississippi Ora l H istory Program (Vo l . 289), U n iversity of Southern Mississippi , Hattiesburg .

71 . Newspaper article, h istorical, in an archive or personal collection Psychoana lys is institute to open . ( 1 948, September 1 8) . [C l ipp ing from an un iden­

tified Dayton, OH newspaper] . Copy in possession of author.

72. Historical publ ication of l imited circulation Sci-Art Publ ishers. ( 1 935) . Sci-Art Publications [ B rochure ] . Cambridge, MA:

Author. A. A. Roback Papers (HUGFP 1 04 .50, Box 2, Folder " M iscel laneous Psychologica l Materia ls " ) ' Harvard Un ivers ity Arch ives, Cambridge, MA.

73. Photographs [Photographs of Robert M. Yerkes) . (ca . 1 9 1 7-1 954) . Robert M earns Yerkes

Papers (Box 1 37, Folder 2292) . Manuscripts and Archives, Ya le U n iversity Library, New Haven, CT.

7 . 1 1 Internet Message Boards, Electronic Mail ing Lists, and Other Onl ine Communities

The Internet offers several options for people around the world to sponsor and join discussions devoted to particular subjects. These options include blogs, newsgroups, online forums and discussion groups, and electronic mailing lists. (The last are often referred to as listservs. However, LISTSERV is a trademarked name for a particular software program; electronic mailing list is the appropriate generic term. )

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Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day) . Tttle of post [Description of form ] . Retrieved from http://www.xxxx

II If the author's full name is available, list the last name first followed by initials . If only a screen name is available, use the screen name.

III Provide the exact date of the posting. II Follow the date with the subject line of the message (also referred to as the

"thread" ) ; do not italicize it. Provide a description of the message in brackets after the title.

II Include the information " Retrieved from " followed by the URL where the message can be retrieved. Include the name of the list to which the message was posted, if this information is not part of the URL.

m Provide the address for the archived version of the message.

74. Message posted to a newsgroup, online forum, or discussion group Rampersad, T. (2005, J une 8) . Re: Trad it iona l knowledge and trad it iona l

cu l tu ra l express ions [ O n l i n e fo rum com me nt] . R etr ieved from http://www.wipo. i nt/ro l le r/com ments/i p isforu m/Web log/the m e _e ig hChow _can_cultura l#comments

75. Message posted to an electronic mai l ing l ist Smith , S . (2006, Janua ry 5) . Re : D isputed est imates of I Q [ E l ectron ic ma i l i ng

l i st message ] . Retr ieved f rom http ://tec h . g ro u ps .ya hoo .com/g ro u p /ForensicNetwork/message/670

76. Blog post PZ Myers . (2007, January 22 ) . The unfortu nate prerequ I s ites and conse­

quences of partitioning your mind [Web log post] . Retrieved from http:// scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/01 /the_unfortunate_prerequisites .php

A blog comment would be referenced as follows:

M idd leKid . (2007, Janua ry 22 ) . Re : The unfortunate pre req u is ites and conse­ quences of partition ing your mind [Web log comment] . Retrieved from http:// scienceblogs .com/pharyngula/2007/01 /the_unfortunate_prerequis ites .php

II In the second example a screen name is used for the author name. The author has adopted a nickname, or screen name, to use when posting comments to this web log.

77. Video blog post Norton, R . (2006, November 4) . How to tra in a cat to operate a l i ght switch [Video

f i le] . Retrieved from http ://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=Vja83KLQXZs

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Appendix 1 . 1 : References to lega l Materials Legal periodicals and APA journals differ i n the placement and format o f references. The main difference is that legal periodicals cite references in footnotes, whereas APA journals locate all references, including references to legal materials, in the reference list. For most references, use APA format as described in this chapter. References to legal materials, however, which include court decisions, statutes, other legislative materials, and various secondary sources, are more useful to the reader if they provide the information in the conventional format of legal citations. Some examples of refer­ ences and citations to court cases, statutes, and other legislative materials appear in this appendix along with guidelines for their preparation. For more information on preparing these and other kinds of legal references, consult the latest edition of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (Bluebook; 1 8th ed., 2005 ) , which is the source for the legal citation style that follows.

Ensure that your legal references are accurate and contain all of the information necessary to enable a reader to locate the material being referenced. Consult law librar­ ians to verify that your legal references (a) contain the information necessary for retrieval and (b ) reflect the current status of the legal authority cited to avoid the pos­ sibility of relying on a case that has been overturned on appeal or on legislation that has been significantly amended or repealed.

A7 .0 1 General Forms

A reference form is provided in each of the following sections. For the most part, each reference form for statutes and other legislation includes (a ) a popular or formal title or name of the legislation and (b) the citation, either to the published compilation of legislative materials where the legislation is codified (e.g., a specific numbered section of a specific volume of the United States Code), including the statutory compilation's publication date in parentheses, or the identifying label for the legislation assigned by the enacting body during the particular legislative session (e.g., a specific section of an act identified by its public law number) .

A typical reference form for court decisions includes (a ) the title or name of the case (usually one party vs. another); (b) the citation, usually to a volume and page of one of the various sets of books (called reporters, which usually contain decisions of courts in particular political divisions, or jurisdictions) where published cases can be found (e.g., the Federal Reporter, Second Series); and finally, (c) the precise jurisdiction of the court writing the decision (e.g., the New York Court of Appeals) , in parenthe­ ses, including the date of the decision.

For both legislation and court decisions, the citation may be followed by certain additional descriptive information that pertains to the content of the legislation or court decision, the history of the legislation or court decision (e.g., later appeals of court decisions or later amendments to legislation), or other sources from which the legislation or court citation may be retrieved. Authors are encouraged to consult the Bluebook for the proper format for such additional information. Follow the Bluebook closely for correct abbreviation style. Some examples of the more common abbrevia­ tions that appear in APA journals are shown here.

Cong o

H . R .

U . S . Congress

House of Representatives

S .

Reg .

Res.

F.

F.2d

F.3d

F. Supp.

U .S .C .

Cong o Rec.

Fed . Reg .

Senate

Regu lation

Resolution

Federal Reporter

Federal Reporter, Second Series

Federal Reporter, Third Series

Federal Supplement

United States Code

Congressional Record

Federal Register

A 7 .02 Text Citations of Legal Materials

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Although the reference format for legal materials differs from that of other kinds of works cited in APA publications, the text citations are formed in the same way and serve the same purpose. As for works with no identified author (see section 6 . 15 ) , give the first few words of the reference list entry and date; that is, give enough informa­ tion in the text citation to enable the reader to locate the entry in the reference list quickly and easily. Examples of text citations and reference entries for specific kinds of legal materials are given in the following sections.

A 7.03 Court Decisions ( Bluebook Rule 1 0) In text, cite the name of the case (italicized) and the year of the decision. If two or more years are given, cite those years as well. Court cases often have several years, each of which reflects a specific stage in the case's history. Giving only one date could give the impression that only a single point in the case's history is being cited or might mislead a reader as to the timing of the case.

Reference form for cases:

Name v. Name, Volume Source Page (Court Date) .

Abbreviate the published source (if any), court, and date as specified in the Bluebook.

1. Sample reference l ist entry to a case Lessard v. Schm idt, 349 F. Supp. 1 078 (E .D . Wis. 1 972) .

Text citation:

Lessard v. Schmidt ( 1 972)

(Lessard v. Schmidt, 1 972)

Explanation: This decision was rendered by the federal district court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin in 1 972. It appears in volume 349 of the Federal Supplement and starts on page 1078 of that volume.

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2. Sample reference l ist entry to an appealed case Durf l inger v. Arti les, 563 F. Supp. 322 (D . Kan . 1 98 1 ) , aff'd, 727 F.2d 888 ( 1 0th C i r.

1 984) .

Text citation:

Durflinger v. Artiles ( 1 981 /1 984)

Explanation: This decision was rendered by the federal district court for the District of Kansas in 1 98 1 . On appeal, the decision was affirmed by the 1 0th Circuit Court of Appeals in 1984. Consult the Bluebook for the proper forms to signal the various stages in a case's history.

Unpublished cases:

3. Sample reference to an unreported decision Gi l l ia rd v. Oswald , No. 76-2 1 09 (2d Cir. Mar. 1 6, 1 977) .

Explanation: The docket number and the court are provided. The opmlOn was announced on March 1 6, 1977. To cite to a particular page of a slip opinion (opinion that is not published in a case reporter but is separately printed), use the form s l ip op . at [page numberJ .

Alternative: You may cite unreported cases found on electronic databases, such as LEXIS or Westlaw, instead of citing them to slip opinions. Give the name of the data­ base, a record number if available, and enough information for the reader to find the case. Precede screen page numbers, if assigned, with an asterisk to distinguish them from the page number of the slip opinion; paragraph numbers, if assigned, should be preceded by a paragraph symbol.

With record number:

Dougherty v. Roya l Zenith Corp . , No. 88-8666, 1 99 1 U .S . D ist. LEXIS 1 0807, at *2 (E .D . Pa . J u ly 3 1 , 1 991 ) .

With no record number:

G usti n v. Mathews, No. 76-7-C5 (D . Kan . Jan . 3 1 , 1 977) (LEXIS , Genfed l ibrary, D ist f i le) .

Note: If the case is not available as a slip opinion or online, consult the Bluebook for other reference formats.

Court cases at the trial level:

4. Sample reference to a state trial court opinion Casey v. Pennsylvan ia-American Water Co . , 1 2 Pa . D . & C.4th 1 68 (C . P.

Wash ington County 1 991 ) .

Explanation: This decision was rendered by the Court o f Common Pleas in Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 199 1 . (The Court of Common Pleas is the name of most of the trial-level courts in Pennsylvania. In other states, the trial-level courts

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are called superior courts or supreme courts, which can be confusing because one usu­ ally thinks of the supreme court as the highest court in any particular jurisdiction and not as the lowest. Authors should check the Bluebook for a listing of each jurisdiction's particular court structure. ) The decision can be located in Pennsylvania District and County Reports, Fourth Series, beginning on page 1 6 8 of that volume.

5. Sample reference to a federal district court opinion Davis v. Monsanto Co . , 627 F. Supp. 41 8 (S . D . W. Va . 1 986) .

Explanation: The opinion was rendered in the federal district court for the Southern District of West Virginia and was decided in 1986 . It appears in volume 627 of the Federal Supplement and starts on page 4 1 8 of that volume.

Court cases at the appellate level:

6. Sample reference to a case appealed to a state supreme court Compton v. Commonwea lth, 239 Va . 31 2, 389 S . E . 2d 460 ( 1 990) .

Explanation: This opinion was written by the Virginia Supreme Court in 1 990. It can be found in volume 239 of the Virginia Reports, which publishes the state's supreme court decisions, starting on page 3 12. There is a parallel citation to volume 389 of the South Eastern Reporter, Second Series, starting on page 460. A reporter prints cases; the South Eastern Reporter is a regional reporter containing cases from several states in the southeastern section of the country.

7. Sample reference to a case appealed to a state court of appeals Texas v. Mora les, 826 S .W.2d 201 (Tex. Ct. App. 1 992) .

Explanation: This opinion was rendered by the Texas Court of Appeals in 1 992 and can be found in volume 826 of the South Western Reporter, Second Series, starting on page 201 .

8. Sample references to cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Educ . , 347 U . S . 483 ( 1 954) .

Maryland v. Cra ig , 1 1 0 S . Ct. 3 1 60 ( 1 990) .

Explanation: Each of these cases was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. The first citation is to the United States Reports. Such a citation is given when the appropriate volume of the United States Reports is available. The second citation is to the Supreme Court Reporter. Use this source when the volume of the United States Reports in which the case will appear has not yet been published.

A7.04 Statutes (Bluebook Rule 1 2) In text, give the popular or official name of the act (if any) and the year of the act. In the reference list entry, include the source and section number of the statute, and in parentheses, give the publication date of the statutory compilation, which may be dif­ ferent from the year in the name of the act.

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Reference form for statutes:

Name of Act, Vo lume Source § section number (yea r) .

Abbreviate the source as specified in the Bluebook. A few states use chapter or article numbers instead of section numbers; use abbreviations or symbols as shown in the Bluebook.

9. Sample reference to a statute Menta l Hea lth Systems Act, 42 U .S .C . § 940 1 ( 1 988) .

Text citation:

Menta l Hea lth Systems Act ( 1 988)

Menta l Hea lth Systems Act of 1 988

10. Sample reference to a statute in a state code Menta l Care and Treatment Act, 4 Kan . Stat. Ann . § § 59-2901 -2941 ( 1 983 & Supp.

1 992) .

Explanation: This Kansas act can be found in codified version between sections 2901 and 2941 in Chapter 59 of volume 4 of the 1 983 edition of Kansas Statutes Annotated. Two amendments to the act and additional references are provided in the 1 992 supple­ ment for the Kansas Statutes Annotated. If you are discussing a particular provision of the law, cite the particular section in which the provision appeared (e.g., § 59-2903 ) . Ann. stands for Annotated, which refers to the version of the Kansas statutory compi­ lation containing summarized cases interpreting particular sections of the statute.

1 1 . Sample reference to a statute in a federal code Americans With Disabi l it ies Act of 1 990, 42 U .S .C .A. § 1 2 1 0 1 et seq. (West

1 993) .

Explanation: This act can be located beginning at section 12101 of title 42 of the United States Code Annotated, which is the unofficial version of the United States Code (the official statutory compilation of the laws enacted by Congress ) . Et seq. is a Latin phrase meaning "and following" and is a shorthand way of showing that the act covers not just the initial section cited but also others that follow the initial section. The text in parentheses indicates that the United States Code Annotated is published by West Publishing and that 1 993 is the publication date of the volume in which the cited sections can be found. Citing to U.S.c., U.S.C.A., or U.S.C.S. is the preferred method of citing legislation, because codified legislation is usually easier to work with and retrieve than is a session law, the form of legislation before it is codified. A session law citation is constructed as follows:

Americans With Disabi l ities Act of 1 990, Pub. L. No. 1 0 1 -336, § 2, 1 04 Stat . 328 ( 1 991 ) .

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Explanation: The citation is to the version of the act in its uncodified form. The act was the 336th public law enacted by the 101st Congress. Section 2 is the particular section of the act cited (§ 2 happens to correspond to § 12101 of 42 U.S.C.A., which is where § 2 was ultimately codified) . The text of the section cited can also be found in the official compilation of uncodified session laws, called United States Statutes at Large (abbreviated Stat. ) at volume 104, p. 328. Volume 1 04 of the United States Statutes at Large was published in 1 99 1 .

A7.05 Legislative Materials (Bluebook Rule 1 3) For testimony and hearings, bills and resolutions, and reports and documents, provide in text the title or number (or other descriptive information) and the date.

Form for testimony at federal hearings and for full hearings:

77tle, xxx Congo (date) .

12. Sample reference for federal testimony RU486: The import ban and its effect on medical research: Hearings before the

Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Energy, of the

House Committee on Small Business, 1 0 1 st Cong o 35 ( 1 990) (test imony of Ronald Chesemore) .

Text citation:

RU486: The Import Ban ( 1 990)

(RU486: The Import Ban, 1 990)

Explanation: This testimony was given before a subcommittee of the u.S. House of Representatives during the second session of the 101st Congress and can be located beginning on page 35 of the official pamphlet that documents the hearing. In the ref­ erence, always include the entire subject-matter title as it appears on the cover of the pamphlet, the bill number (if any), the subcommittee name (if any), and the commit­ tee name. If you are citing an entire hearing, certain adjustments to the citation should be made, as in Example 1 3 .

13. Sample reference for a ful l federal hearing Urban America s need for social services to strengthen families: Hearing before

the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and

Means, House of Representatives, 1 02d Cong o 1 ( 1 992 ) .

Text citation:

Urban America s Need ( 1 992)

( Urban America s Need, 1 992)

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Explanation: This hearing was held in 1992 in the u.s. House of Representatives dur­ ing the 1 02d Congress. The hearing begins on page 1 of the official pamphlet that was prepared after the hearing.

1 4. Form for unenacted federal bi l ls and resolutions Tit le [ if relevantl . b i l l or resolution number, xxx Cong o (year) .

The number should be preceded by H.R. (House of Representatives ) or S. (Senate) , depending on the source of the unenacted bill or resolution.

Reference list entry:

S . 5936, 1 02d Congo § 4 ( 1 992 ) .

Text citation:

Senate B i l l 5936 ( 1 992)

(S. 5936, 1 992)

1 5. Sample references to unenacted federal bi l ls Equitab le Health Care for Severe Menta l I l l nesses Act of 1 993, H . R . 1 563, 1 03d

Cong o ( 1 993) .

Equ itab le Health Care for Severe Menta l I l l nesses Act of 1 993, S. 67 1 , 1 03d Cong o ( 1 993) .

Explanation: The first example is to a bill created in the u.S. House of Representatives during the 103d Congress; it was assigned the bill number 1563. The second example is the Senate's version of the same bill .

1 6. Form for enacted federal b i l ls and resolutions xx. Res. xxx, xxx Cong . , Volume Source page (year) (enacted) .

Reference list entry:

S . Res. 1 07, 1 03d Cong . , 1 39 Cong o Rec. 5826 ( 1 993) (enacted) .

Text citation:

Senate Resolution 1 07 ( 1 993)

(S. Res. 1 07 , 1 993)

Explanation: This resolution by the Senate is numbered 1 07 and is reported in volume 1 39 of the Congressional Record on page 5826. Note that enacted bills and joint res­ olutions are laws and should be cited as statutes. Enacted simple or concurrent resolu­ tions should follow this format.

1 7. Form for federal reports (Rep.) and documents (Doc.) xx. Rep. No. xx-xxx (year) .

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As with bills, report numbers should be preceded by H.R. or S. as appropriate. The report number is composed of the year of the Congress followed by a hyphen and the number of the report, and ending with the calendar year.

Reference list entry:

S . Rep. No. 1 02-1 1 4, at 7 ( 1 991 ) .

Text citation:

Senate Report No. 1 02-1 1 4 ( 1 991 )

(S . Rep. No. 1 02-1 1 4, 1 991 )

Explanation: This report was submitted to the Senate by the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources concerning the Protection and Advocacy for Mentally III Individuals Amendments Act of 1991 . The reference is to material that starts on page 7 of that document.

A 7 .06 Administrative and Executive Materials (Bluebook Rule 1 4) For rules and regulations, advisory opinions, and executive orders, provide in text the title or number (or other descriptive information) and the date.

1 8. Form for federal regulation lit le/Nu mber, Volume Source § xxx (year) .

Reference list entries:

FDA Prescription Drug Advert is ing Ru le , 2 1 C . F. R . § 202 . 1 (2006) .

Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Report ing System, 73 Fed . Reg . 82,082 (proposed Jan . 1 1 , 2008) (to be codified at 45 C . F. R . pt. 1 355) .

Text citations:

FDA Prescription Drug Advertis ing Ru le (2006)

(Adoption and Foster Care Ana lysis and Report ing System, 2008)

Explanation: The first rule was codified in 2006 in volume 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations (the official regulatory code) as section 202. 1 . The second rule was pro­ posed and published in the Federal Register before being officially codified; the paren­ thetical information is a cross-reference (indicated in the entry in the Register) to the section of the Code of Federal Regulations where the proposed rule will be codified.

19. Form for executive order Exec. Order No. xxxxx, 3 C . F. R . Page (year) .

Reference list entry:

Exec. Order No. 1 1 , 609, 3 C . F. R . 586 ( 1 97 1 -1 975), reprinted as amended in 3 U .S .C . 30 1 app . at 404-07 ( 1 994) .

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Text citation:

Executive Order No. 1 1 ,609 ( 1 994)

(Executive Order No. 1 1 ,609, 1 994)

Explanation: Executive orders are reported in title 3 of the Code of Federal Regulations; this one appears on page 586. Provide a parallel citation to the United States Code (U.S .C. ) or, if U.S.C. is unavailable, to the United States Code Service (U.S.C.S. ) .

A 7 .07 Patents

In text, give the patent number and the issue date (not application date) of the patent. In the reference list entry, include the inventor(s) to whom the patent is issued and the official source from which the patent information can be retrieved.

Reference list entry:

Smith, I . M . ( 1 988) . U. S. Patent No. 123,445. Wash ington, DC: U .S . Patent and Trademark Office.

Text citation:

U .S . Patent No. 1 23,445 ( 1 988)

(U .S . Patent No. 1 23,445, 1 988)

Explanation: This patent was issued in 1988 . I. M. Smith is the inventor who holds the patent right. The patent number is a unique identifying code given to every patent. In this reference example, the patent number represents a utility patent because there is no letter prefix. If this were a nonutility patent, such as a design patent (coded with a D), the patent number in the reference and citation would be D123 ,445 .

The Publ ication Process

he author, editor, and publisher share responsibility for the ethical and efficient handling of a manuscript. This responsibility begins when the editor receives the manuscript and extends through the life of the published article. In this chapter,

we describe the peer review process, focusing first on how editors evaluate manuscripts. Next, we delineate the author's responsibilities in four areas: (a) preparing the manuscript for submission, (b) attending to administrative and ethical responsibilities, (c) complying with publisher policy requirements, and (d) working with the publisher during the pro­ duction process.1

Editoria l Process

8.0 1 Peer Review

Scholarly journal articles are original, primary publications. This means that they have not been previously published, that they contribute to the archive of scientific knowl­ edge, and that they have been reviewed by a panel of peers. The peer-reviewed litera­ ture in a field is built by individual contributions that together represent the accumu­ lated knowledge of a field.

To ensure the quality of each contribution-that the work is original, valid, and significant-scholars in the subspecialties of a field carefully review submitted man­ uscripts . By submitting a manuscript to a peer-reviewed journal, an author implicitly consents to the circulation and discussion of the manuscript. During the review process, the manuscript is considered a confidential and privileged document, but publishers differ, so check the journal's instructions to authors ( see section 1 . 1 4, for

IThis chapter gives instructions to authors of journal articles. Authors and editors of book manuscripts should follow instructions given by the publisher's book production department. For information on dissertations and master's theses, see "Converting the Thesis or Dissertation Into an Article" on the APA Style website (www.apastyle.org) .

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a discussion of the ethical standards that have been established for manuscript reviewers ) .

The editor of each journal is responsible for the quality and content of the journal. Journal editors look for manuscripts that (a) contribute significantly to the content area covered by the journal, (b) communicate with clarity and conciseness, and (c) fol­ low style guidelines. Journal editors are often assisted by associate editors, who assume responsibility for a specific content area of the journal or for a portion of the manu­ scripts submitted to the journal. For some journals, an associate editor may act as edi­ tor at all stages of the consideration of a manuscript (i .e . , as an action editor) , includ­ ing communication with an author regarding acceptance, rejection, or required revi­ sion of a manuscript. Consulting and advisory editors and ad hoc reviewers review manuscripts and make recommendations to editors or to associate editors concerning the disposition of manuscripts. However, the editor has the final editorial authority and may make a decision other than that recommended by the reviewers.

The editor may accept or reject a manuscript outright, that is, before its review by an associate editor or by reviewers. More typically, however, the editor sends the man­ uscript to an associate editor or directly to reviewers.

Reviewers. An action editor usually seeks the assistance of several scholars in the con­ tent area of the submitted manuscript in arriving at an editorial decision. An action editor may solicit reviews from particular scholars for any number of reasons, includ­ ing technical expertise, familiarity with a particular controversy, and balance of per­ spectives. Reviewers provide scholarly input into the editorial decision, but the deci­ sion is the action editor's alone to make.

Masked review. Journal editors, either routinely or at the author's request, may use masked review. In masked review, the identity of the author of a manuscript is con­ cealed from reviewers during the review process. Consult the instructions to authors in the journals to which you submit your manuscripts to determine whether a journal routinely uses masked review or offers masked review to authors who request it. Authors are responsible for concealing their identities in manuscripts that are to receive masked review; for example, they should take extra care to format their man­ uscripts so their identities as document creators are not easily revealed. It is APA pol­ icy that authors' names will not be revealed to reviewers after the review process is complete without the consent of the authors. Further, the APA review process is masked in both directions; reviewer identities will not be revealed to authors unless the reviewer chooses to do so.

Timing of peer review. The period of review can vary, depending on both the length and complexity of the manuscript and the number of reviewers asked to evaluate it, but the review process typically takes approximately two to three months. After that time, the author can expect to be notified as to the status of the manuscript. It would be appro­ priate for an author to contact the editor if no communication has been received after more than three months.

8.02 Manuscript Acceptance or Rejection Reviewers provide the editor with evaluations of a manuscript on the basis of their assessment of the scholarly quality of the manuscript, the importance of the novel con-

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tribution that the work might provide, and the appropriateness of the work to the par­ ticular journal. The decision to accept a manuscript, to reject it, or to invite a revision is the responsibility of the editor; the editor's decision may differ from the recommen­ dation of any or all of the reviewers. Editors may generally choose one of three actions:

1. Acceptance. Once a manuscript is accepted, it enters into the production phase of publication. No further changes may be made by the author to the manuscript other than those recommended by the copyeditor. The author remains responsible for the completion of all associated paperwork (e.g., copyright transfers, disclosures, per­ missions) . Failure to complete all required paperwork may result in retraction of the acceptance of a manuscript.

2. Rejection. A manuscript is usually rejected because (a) the work is seen as falling outside the coverage domain of the journal; (b) it contains such severe flaws of design, methodology, analysis, or interpretations that the editor questions the valid­ ity of the submission; or (c) it is judged as making a limited novel contribution to the field. At times, editors reject good manuscripts simply because they lack the space to publish all of the high-quality manuscripts that are submitted to the jour­ nal. A manuscript that has been rejected by a journal may not be revised and resub­ mitted to that same journal.

If a manuscript is rejected and the author believes a pertinent point was over­ looked or misunderstood by the reviewers, the author may appeal the editor's deci­ sion by contacting the editor. Those who feel their manuscripts are unfairly rejected by APA journals may appeal such decisions to the Chief Editorial Advisor.

3 . Rejection with invitation to revise and resubmit. This category applies to a range of manuscripts that are judged to have a high potential for eventual publication in the journal but that are not yet ready for final acceptance. Manuscripts in this catego­ ry range from those that the editor has judged to need substantial reworking (includ­ ing the possibility that additional empirical data may need to be gathered, that entirely new experiments may need to be added, or that analyses need to be modi­ fied) to those that need only a small number of specific modifications. Some jour­ nals use a category labeled conditional acceptance for this latter level of revision. Rejection with invitation to revise and resubmit does not guarantee eventual publi­ cation of the paper by that journal. In many cases, this invitation is time bound; it does not extend across changes in editors.

Most manuscripts need to be revised, and some manuscripts need to be revised more than once (revision does not guarantee acceptance) . Initial revisions of a man­ uscript may reveal to the author or to the editor and reviewers deficiencies that were not apparent in the original manuscript, and the editor may request further revision to correct those deficiencies. During the review process, an editor may ask an author to supply material that supplements the manuscript (e.g., complex statistical tables, instructions to participants) . As the manuscript moves through the review process, editors are free to solicit reviews from reviewers who were not among the initial set of reviewers.

If the editor rejects a manuscript or returns it to the author for revision, the editor explains why the manuscript is rejected or why the revisions are required.

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The editor does not have to provide the reviewers' comments to the author but frequently chooses to do so. Editors do not undertake major editorial revision of manuscripts. Authors are expected to attend to editors' detailed recommendations for revision; however, the content and style of the article remain the sole respon­ sibility of the author. Slavish compliance with all recommendations of all review­ ers may result in a manuscript that is difficult to comprehend, which is not the intent of the review process. When resubmitting a revised manuscript, authors are encouraged to enclose a cover letter explaining how they have responded to all the reviewers' comments (regardless of whether the authors agreed or disagreed with the comments) .

Author Responsibi l ities 8.03 Preparing the Manuscript for Submission

The specific requirements for submitting a manuscript differ among journals . Therefore, before submitting a manuscript, refer to the journal's website. The journal's instructions to authors will tell you (a) the journal's area of coverage, that is, what kinds of manuscripts are appropriate for that journal; (b ) the current editor's name and address; and (c) instructions for manuscript preparation and submission specific to that journal, including whether the journal routinely uses masked review.

Qual ity of presentation. The physical appearance of a manuscript can enhance or detract from it. A well-prepared manuscript encourages editors and reviewers to view your work as professional. In contrast, mechanical flaws sometimes lead reviewers to misinterpret content.

In this section, we describe the mechanical details of producing a manuscript that meets requirements for peer review and publication in a scholarly journal . Publishers will produce the typeset version of your article directly from your word-processing file, should your manuscript be accepted for publication. The instructions given in this chapter lay the groundwork for producing a usable electronic file.

Assistance in scientific writing in Engl ish. Scholars who are not experienced in scien­ tific writing in English can be hindered in their publishing efforts by a lack of familiar­ ity with idiomatic language usage. These individuals are urged to correct the problem by consulting with colleagues who are experienced writers in the English language. They may also wish to contact copyediting services that can help authors evaluate and correct their manuscripts. We highly recommend use of these services for those who consistently face obstacles in getting their work published.

Format. Formatting your manuscript according to the specifications described in this section enhances clarity and readability and facilitates peer reviews, copyediting, and typesetting.

Typeface. The use of a uniform typeface and font size enhances readability for the editor and allows the publisher to estimate the article length. The preferred typeface for APA publications is Times New Roman, with 12-point font size.

A serif typeface, "with short light lines projecting from the top or bottom of a main stroke of a letter" ( Chicago Manual of Style, 2003, p. 837) , is preferred for text

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because it improves readability and reduces eye fatigue. (A sans serif type may be used in figures, however, to provide a clean and simple line that enhances the visual presen­ tation. ) Do not use a compressed typeface or any settings in your word-processing soft­ ware that decrease the spacing between letters or words. The default settings are nor­ mally acceptable.

Special characters. Special characters are accented letters and other diacriticals, Greek letters, math signs, and symbols. Type all special characters that you can, using the special character functions of your word-processing program.

Line spacing. Double-space between all text lines of the manuscript. Double-space after every line in the title, headings, footnotes, quotations, references, and figure cap­ tions. Although you may apply triple- or quadruple-spacing in special circumstances, such as immediately before and after a displayed equation, never use single-spacing or one-and-a-half spacing except in tables or figures.

Margins. Leave uniform margins of at least 1 in. (2.54 cm) at the top, bottom, left, and right of every page. Combined with a uniform typeface and font size, uniform margins enhance readability and provide a consistent gauge for estimating article length.

Line length and alignment. The length of each typed line is a maximum of 6� in. ( 16 .51 cm) . Do not justify lines; that is, do not use the word-processing feature that adjusts spacing between words to make all lines the same length (flush with the mar­ gins ) . Instead, use the flush-left style, and leave the right margin uneven, or ragged. Do not divide words at the end of a line, and do not use the hyphenation function to break words at the ends of lines. Let a line run short rather than break a word at the end of a line.

Paragraphs and indentation. Indent the first line of every paragraph and the first line of every footnote. For consistency, use the tab key, which should be set at five to seven spaces, or � in. The default settings in most word-processing programs are acceptable. Type the remaining lines of the manuscript to a uniform left-hand margin. The only exceptions to these requirements are (a) the abstract, (b ) block quotations, (c) titles and headings, (d) table titles and notes, and (e) figure captions.

Order of manuscript pages. Arrange the pages of the manuscript as follows:

II!I title page

The title page includes five elements: title, running head, author byline, institution­ al affiliation, and author note. Identify the title page with the page number 1 . The remaining pages should be numbered consecutively, using Arabic numerals (except for artwork and figures ) .

The running head i s an abbreviated title that i s printed at the top of the pages of a manuscript or published article to identify the article for readers. The running head should be a maximum of 50 characters, counting letters, punctuation, and spaces between words. It should appear flush left in all uppercase letters at the top of the title page and all subsequent pages .

.. abstract (start on separate page, numbered page 2 ) II text (start on a separate page, numbered page 3 )

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IiilI references (start on a separate page) IiilI tables ( start each on a separate page) IIlI figures (start each on a separate page; include caption on page with figure) 1!!1 appendices ( start each on a separate page)

Page numbers and running heads. After the manuscript pages are arranged in the correct order, number them consecutively, beginning with the title page. Pages occa­ sionally are separated during the editorial process, so identify each manuscript page with the running head along with the page number. (Do not use your name to identi­ fy each page, because the name will have to be removed if the manuscript receives masked review. )

Use the automatic functions of your word-processing program to generate headers and page numbers for your file. (Do not type these manuscript page headers repeatedly in your word-processing file . )

Spell ing check. Most word-processing programs have a function that checks spelling. Use it. Although an electronic spelling check cannot take the place of proofreading the article, because words spelled correctly may be used incorrectly, it will lessen the chance that typographical errors in the manuscript will make their way into print when your electronic file is used to publish the article.

Supplemental materials. If you are submitting supplemental materials with your man­ uscript ( see section 2. 1 3 ), check the journal's website to determine the preferred for­ mat. If you are submitting your manuscript to an APA journal, you will need to

IiilI submit a separate file for each supplemental document and specify the format, nam­ ing your files consistently and including the file format in the naming convention;

IIlI provide a title for each document, bearing in mind that the file will be viewed sepa­ rately from the article and will need to be sufficiently identified to be useful for the reader;

IIlI include a context statement for each file that specifies precisely what the document or file is intended to communicate (readers should be able to ascertain what they will find in the file from the statement, whether it contains several sentences or just a few); and

II!! prepare each document so it is complete-that is, tables and figures intended for sup­ plemental material should include captions in the document just as if they were appearing in the published article.

Obtain and submit necessary permission to reproduce images (in addition to copy­ righted material, keep in mind that images of human subjects require the subjects' per­ mission; see http://www.apa.orgljournals for more guidance on supplemental material) .

Cover letter. Check the journal's website for the current editor's name and for specific instructions on submission. When submitting a manuscript for consideration, enclose a letter that includes the following elements:

II specific details about the manuscript (title, length, number of tables and figures) ; IiilI a request for masked review, if that is an option for the journal and you choose to

use it; II recommendations for potential reviewers or reviewers to avoid (optional) ; IiilI information about any previous presentation of the data (e.g., at a scientific meeting) ;

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II information about the existence of any closely related manuscripts that have been submitted for simultaneous consideration to the same or to another journal;

II notice of any interests or activities that might be seen as influencing the research (e.g., financial interests in a test or procedure, funding by pharmaceutical companies for drug research) ;

iIlI verification that the treatment of subjects (human or animal) was in accordance with established ethical standards; and

lI!Il a copy of the permission granted to reproduce or adapt any copyrighted material from another source or a notice that permissions are pending. (The publisher will need copies of all granted permissions on receipt of your accepted manuscript. )

The corresponding author i s responsible for ensuring that all authors are in agree­ ment with the content of the manuscript and with the order of authorship before sub­ mitting an original or revised submission (see section 1 . 1 3 ) . The cover letter should assure the editor that such agreements have been reached and that the corresponding author will take responsibility for informing coauthors in a timely manner of editorial decisions, reviews received, changes made in response to editorial review, and the con­ tent of revisions. If the manuscript is accepted, all the authors will need to certify authorship.

Finally, include your telephone number, fax number, e-mail address, and mailing address for future correspondence. (See Figure 8 . 1 for a sample cover letter. )

Interim correspondence. While a manuscript is under consideration, be sure to inform the editor of any substantive corrections needed, any change in address, and so forth. In all correspondence, include the complete manuscript title, the authors' names, and the man­ uscript number (which is assigned by the editor when the manuscript is first received) .

8.04 Complying With Ethical, Legal, and Policy Requirements

In Chapter 1, we noted that authors are responsible for demonstrating that they have complied with the ethical standards that govern scholarly publishing. When you sub­ mit a manuscript to a journal editor for consideration, you may be asked to provide proof of compliance with these standards. You are also expected to comply with legal standards of fair use when reprinting or adapting the work of others and to comply with the publication policies established by the journal publisher.

Ethical conduct of research and confl icts of interest. When you submit your manuscript, you may be asked to verify that you have complied with ethical standards in the con­ duct of your research. You may also be asked to disclose potential conflicts of interest and to indicate financial agreements or affiliations with any product or services used or discussed in your papers as well as any potential bias against another product or ser­ vice. The forms used by APA for this purpose are provided in Figures 8 .2 and 8 .3 .

Permission to reprint or adapt the work of others. If your paper includes material bor­ rowed from another source, you must cite the original source in your paper (for more on including your own previously published work in a paper, see section 1 . 1 0 on self­ plagiarism) . It is the author's responsibility to (a) obtain letters of permission from copyright holders to reproduce copyrighted material and (b ) enclose copies of these let­ ters with the accepted manuscript.

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April 2, 2008

Meredith S. Simpson, PhD Editor, Journal of Poetry and Psychology Department of Psychology University of Xanadu 9 Prentice Hall Xanadu, NY 1 0003- 1 2 1 2

Dear Dr. Simpson:

I am enclosing a submission to the Journal of Poetry and Psychology entitled, "Poetry and the Cognitive Psychology of Metrical Constructs." The manuscript is 40 pages long and includes 4 tables and I figure. I wish for the manuscript to be given a masked review and request that it not be sent to my ex-husband [name blocked out] for review. Although he is an expert in the area, I do not believe that he would be able to provide an unbiased review at this time.

Some of the data from this paper were previously presented at the armual meeting of the Poetry and Psychology Society in San Diego (May 2006). This is one of a series of papers examining cognition and creative writing (see references for a listing of those published and in press). There is some overlap in the content of the introduction sections, which we have noted in the text. We would be happy to provide copies of the other manuscripts if there should be any concern about duplicate or fragmented publication. My coauthors and I do not have any interests that might be interpreted as influencing the research, and APA ethical standards were followed in the conduct of the study.

I have enclosed a copy of the permission granted us for the adaptation we made to the figure; permission is pending from the publisher for the poetry that is reproduced.

I will be serving as the corresponding author for this manuscript. All of the authors listed in the byline have agreed to the byline order and to submission of the manuscript in this form. I have assumed responsibility for keeping my coauthors informed of our progress through the editorial review process, the content of the reviews, and any revisions made. I understand that, if accepted for publication, a certification of authorship form will be required that all coauthors will sign.

Sincerely,

Janet Sestina, PhD, Associate Professor University of Melville 1 1 2 Oceanside Drive Quequeeg, ME 2003 1 -2221 2 1 8-555- 1 2 1 2 (voice) 2 1 8-555- 1 2 1 3 (fax) [email protected]

The following are some examples of material that require permission:

I!Jil Figures and tables: Along with directly reprinted figures and tables, this also includes figures and tables that have been adapted from or are very similar to previously pub­ lished figures and tables.

I!Jil Data: This applies only to data that are directly reproduced from another source; data that have been reconfigured or reanalyzed to produce different numbers do not require permission.

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CERTIFICATION OF COMPLIANCE WITH APA ETHICAL PRINCIPLES

The APA Publications and Communications Board has added to the Instruelions to Authors for each APA journal the following state­ ment: "Authors will be required to state in writing that they hove complied with APA ethical standards in the treatment of their sample, human or animal, or to describe the details of treatment." (A copy of the APA Ethical Principles may be obtained at hHp:/ / www.apa.org/ethics/ or by writing the APA Ethics Office, 750 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242.)

For your information, the APA Ethical Principles concerning research and publication are reprinted below. Please review the Principles and sign the form provided on the back of this sheet to indicate that you are in compliance.

From Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduel. (2002). American Psychologist, 57, 1 060-1 073 .

8.01 Institutional Approval

When institutional approval is required, psychologists provide accurate infonnation about their research proposaJs and obtain approval prior to conducting the research. They conduct the research in accordance with the approved research protocol.

8.02 Informed Consent to Research

(a) When obtaining infonned consent as required in Standard 3 . 1 0, Infonned Consent, psychologists infonn participants about ( I ) the purpose of the research, expected duration, and procedures; (2) their right to decline to participate and to withdraw from the research once participation has begun; (3) the foreseeable consequences of declining or withdrawing; (4) reasonably foreseeable factors that may be expected to influence their willingness to participate such as potential risks, discomfort. or adverse effects; (5) any prospective research benefits; (6) limits of confidentiality; (7) incentives for participation; and (8) whom to contact for questions about the research and research participants' rights. They provide opportunity for the prospective participants to ask questions and receive answers. (See also Standards 8.03, Informed Consent for Recording Voices and Images in Research; 8.05, Dispensing With Infonned Consent for Research; and 8.07. Deception in Research.)

(b) Psychologists conducting intervention research involving the use of experimental treatments clarify to participants at the outset of the research ( I ) the experimental nature of the treatment; (2) the services that will or will not be available to the control group(s) if appropriate; (3) the means by which assignment to treatment and control groups will be made; (4) available treatment allernatives if an individual does not wish to participate in the research or wishes to withdraw once a study has begun; and (5) compensation for or monetary costs of participating including, if appropriate, whether reimbursement from the participant or a third·party payor will be sought. (See atso Standard 8.02a. Informed Consent to Research.)

8.03 Informed Consent for Recording Voices and Images in Research

Psychologists obtain infonned consent from research participants prior to recording their voices or images for data collection unless ( t ) the research consists solely of naturalistic observations in public places. and it is not anticipated that the recording will be used in a manner that could cause personal identification or harm. or (2) the research design includes deception. and consent for the use of the recording is obtained during debriefing. (See also Standard 8.07, Deception in Research.)

8.04 ClienllPatlenl, Student, and Subordtnate Research PartiCipants

(a) When psychologists conduct research with clients/patients. students, or subordinates as participants, psychologists take steps to protect the prospective participants from adverse consequences of

declining or withdrawing from participation. (b) When research participation is a course requirement or an

opportunity for extra credit. the prospective participant is given the choice of equitable alternative activities.

8.05 Dispensing With Informed Consent for Research

Psychologists may dispense with infonned consent only ( 1 ) where research would not reasonably be assumed to create distress or harm and involves (a) the study of nonnal educational practices. curricula. or classroom management methods conducted in educational settings; (b) only anonymous questionnaires, naturalistic observations. or archival research for which disclosure of responses would not place participants at risk of criminal or civil liability or damage their financial standing, employability, or repulation, and confidentiality is protected; or (c) the study of factors related to job or organization effectiveness conducted in organizational settings for which there is no risk to participants' employability. and confidentiality is protected or (2) where otherwise pennitted by law or federal or institutional regulations.

8.06 Offering Inducements for Research PartiCipation (a) Psychologists make reasonable efforts to avoid offering excessive

or inappropriate financial or other inducements for research participation when such inducements are likely to coerce participation.

(b) When offering professional services as an inducement for research participation, psychologists clarify the nature of the services. as well as the risks, obligations. and limitations. (See also Standard 6.05. Barter With ClientslPalienls.)

8.07 Daception in Research

(a) Psychologists do not conduct a study involving deception unless they have detennined that the usc of deceptive techniques is justified by the study's significant prospective scientific. educational, or applied value and that effective nondeceptive alternative procedures are not feasible.

(b) Psychologists do not deceive prospective participants about re-search that is reasonably expected to cause physical pain or severe emo-lional distress.

(c) Psychologists explain any deception that is an integral feature of the design and conduct of an experiment to participants as early as is fea<;ible. preferably at the conclusion of their participation. but no later than at the conclusion of the data collection. and pennit participants to withdraw lheir data. (See also Standard 8.08. Debriefing.)

8.08 Dabriefing

(a) Psychologists provide a prompt opportunity for participants to obtain appropriate infonnation about the nature. results, and conclusions of the research. and they take reasonable steps to correct any misconcep­ tions that participants may have of which the psychologists are aware.

This fOfm can be found on the APA Journals web page (http://www.apa.org/journals) .

iii! Test and scale items, questionnaires, vignettes, and so forth: This applies mainly to items that are from copyrighted and commercially available tests (e.g., the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, and the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales) .

.. Long quotations: Each copyright holder has a definition of what is considered fair use. It is your responsibility to determine whether the copyright holder requires per­ mission for long quotations.

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(b) If scientific Of humane values justify delaying or withholding this infonnation. psychologists take reasonable measures to reduce the risk ofhann.

(c) When psychologists become aware that research procedures have hanned a participant, they take reasonable steps to minimize the hann.

8.09 Humane Care and Use of Animals In Research

(a) Psychologists acquire, care for, use, and dispose of animals in compliance with current federal, state, and local laws and regulations, and with professional standards. (b) Psychologists trained in research methods and experienced in the care oflaboratory animals supervise all procedures involving animals and are responsible for ensuring appropriate consideration of their comfort. health, and humane treatment.

(c) Psychologists eosure that all individuals under their supervision who are using animals have received insttuction in research methods and in the care, maintenance, and handling of the species being used. to the extent appropriate to their role. (See also Standard 2.05, Delegation of Work 10 Others.)

(d) Psychologists make reasonable efforts to minimize the discomfort, infection, illness, and pain of animal sUbjects.

(e) Psychologists use a procedure sUbjecting animals to pain, stress, or privation only when an alternative procedure is unavailable and the goal is justified by its prospective scientific, educational, or applied value. <0 Psychologists perform surgical procedures under appropriate anesthesia and follow techniques to avoid infection and minimize pain during and afler surgery. (g) When it is appropriate that an animal's life be terminated, psychologists proceed rapidly, with an effort to minimize pain and in accordance with accepted procedures.

8.1 0 Reporting Research Results

(a) Psychologists do nol fabricate dala. (See also Standard 5.01 .. A voidance of False or Deceptive Statements.)

(b) If psychologists discover significant errors in their published data, they take reasonable steps to correct such errors in a correction, retraction, erratum, or other appropriate pUblication means.

8.1 1 Plagiarism

Psychologists do not present portions of another's work or data as their own, even if the other work or dam source is cited occasionally.

8.12 Publication Credit

(a) Psychologists lake responsibility and credit, including authorship credit, only for work they have actually perfonned or to which they have substantially contribuled. (See also Standard 8. 12b, Publication Credil.)

(b) Principal authorship and other publication credits accurately reflect the relative scientific or professional contributions of the individuals involved, regardless of their relative status. Mere possession of an institutional position, such as department chair, does not justify authorship credit. Minor contributions to the research or to the writing for publications are acknowledged appropriately. such as in footnotes or in an introductory statement.

(c) Except under exceptional circumstances. a student is listed as principal author on any multiple-authored article that is substantially based on the student's doctoral dissertation. Faculty advisors discuss publication credit with students as early as feasible and throughout the research and publication process as appropriate. (See also Standard 8. 12b, Publication Credil)

8.13 Duplicate Publication of Data

Psychologists do not publish, as original dam, dam that have been previously published. This does not preclude republishing data when they are accompanied by proper acknowledgment.

8.14 Sharing Research Data for Verification

(a) After research results are published, psychologists do nol withhold the data on which their conclusions are based from other competent professionals who seek to verify the substantive claims through reanalysis and who intend to use such dam only for that purpose, provided that the confidentiality of the participants can be protected and unless legal rights concerning proprietary data preclude their release. This does not preclude psychologists from requiring that such individua1s or groups be responsible for costs associated with the provision of such information. (b) Psychologists who request data from other psychologists to verify the substantive claims through reanalysis may use shared dam only for the declared purpose. Requesting psychologists obtain prior written agreement for all other uses of the data.

8.1 5 Reviewers

Psychologists who review material submitted for presentation, publication, grant, or research proposal review respect the confidential­ ity of and the proprietary rights in such infonnation of those who submitted it.

JOURNAL ______________________________________________________________________ ___

TITLE OF MANUSCffiPT __________________________________________________________________ ___

AUTHOR(S), ______________________________________________________________________ __

I certify that I (we) have complied with the APA ethical principles regarding research with human participants andlor care and use of animals in the conduct of the research presented in this manuscript.

(Signature of corresponding author) (dale) 1 · l 3·03

The journal publisher typically owns the copyright on material published in its jour­ nals. Provided that the purpose of the use is scholarly comment, noncommercial research, or educational use and full credit is given to the author and the publisher as copyright holder through a complete and accurate citation, many scientific, technical, and medical publishers require no written permission or fees for

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Full Disclosure of Interests This section to be completed by author(s):

Journal:

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In psychology, as in other scientific disciplines, professional communications are presunted to be based on objective interpretations of evidence and unbissed intetprel8tions of f net. An author's economic and commercial interests in products or services used or discussed in their papem may color such objectivity. Although such relationships do not necessarily constitute a conflict of interes� the integrity of the field requires disclosure of the possibilities of such potentially distorting influences where they may exist. The reader may then judge and, if necessary, make allowance for the impact of the bias on the information being reported.

In general, the safest and most open course of action is to disclose activities and relationships tha� if known to others, might be viewed as a conflict of interes� even if you do not believe that any conflict or bias exists.

Whether an interest is "significant" will depend on individual circumstances and cannot be defined by a dollar amount. Holdings in a company through a mutual fund are not ordinarily sufficient to warrant disclosure, whereas salaries, research grants, consulting fees, and pomonal stock holdings would be. Being the copyright holder of aneIIor recipient of royalties from a psychological test might be another example. Participation on a board of directom or any other relationship with an entity or pomon that is in some way part of the paper should also be carefully considered for possible disclosure.

In addition to disclosure of possible sources of positive bias, authom should also carefully consider disclosure where circumstances could suggest bias against a prod� service, facility, or pemon. For example, having a copyright or royalty interest in a competing psychological teat or assessment protocol might be seen as a possible source of negative bias against another teat instrument.

Please cheek one Une only:

1 have read the above APA policy on full disclosure, and 1 declare that Neither 1 nor any member of my immediate family have a significant financial arrangement or affiliation with any product or services used or discussed in my paper, nor any potential bias against another product or service. 1 (or an immediate family member) have a significant fmancial interest or affiliation with the following products or services used or discussed in my paper:

Name of product or service and nature of relationship with each (e.g., stock or bond holdings, research grants, employmen� ownership or partnership, consultant fees or other remuneration).

Name of Product or Service Reladooshlpllnterest

If an author note should be added to your manuscript in reference to any disclosure(s) noted above, please check the line below and attach to this form the text of the author note.

Author Note Attached

Author signature (All contributing emthors must sign this form or duplication of thereof)

This form can be found on the APA Journals web page (http://www.apa.org/journals) .

Date

• a maximum of three figures (including tables) from a journal article or book chap­ ter and a maximum of five figures (including tables) from a whole book or

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Standards (JARS), Meta-Ana lysis Reporting Standards (MARS) , and

Flow of Partic ipants Through Each Stage of an Experiment or Quasi -Experiment

Table 1

Journa l Artic le Reporti ng Standards (JARS)

I nformation Recommended for I nc lusion in Manuscripts That Report

New Data Col lections Regard less of Research Design

Journal Article Reporting Standards UARS): Information Recommended for Inclusion in Manuscripts That Report New Data Collections Regardless of Research Design Paper section and topic Ti�e and title page

Abstract

Introduction

Method Participant characteristics

Sampling procedures

Description

Identify variables and theoretical issues under investigation and the relationship between them Author note contains acknowledgment of special circumstances:

Use of data also appearing in previous publ ications, d issertations, or conference papers Sources of funding or other support Relationships that may be perceived as conflicts of interest

Problem under investigation Participants or subjects; specifying pertinent characteristics; in an imal research , i nclude genus

and species Study method, including :

Sample size Any apparatus used Outcome measures Data-gathering procedures Research design (e.g . , experiment, observational study)

Findings, including effect sizes and confidence intervals and/or statistical significance levels Conclusions and the implications or appl ications The importance of the problem:

Theoretical or practical impl ications Review of relevant scholarsh ip:

Relation to previous work If other aspects of th is study have been reported on previously, how the current report differs

from these earlier reports Specific hypotheses and objectives:

Theories or other means used to derive hypotheses Primary and secondary hypotheses, other planned analyses

How hypotheses and research design relate to one another

El igibi l ity and exclusion criteria, including any restrictions based on demographic characteristics

Major demographic characteristics as wel l as important topic-specific characteristics (e.g . , achievement level in stud ies of educational interventions), or in the case of animal research, genus and species

Procedures for selecting participants, including : The sampling method if a systematic sampling plan was implemented Percentage of sample approached that participated Self-selection (either by individuals or un its, such as schools or c l in ics)

Sellings and locations where data were collected Agreements and payments made to participants Institutional review board agreements, eth ical standards met, safety monitoring

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Table 1 (continued) Paper section and topic Method (continued)

Sample size, power, and precision

Measures and covariates

Research design

Results Participant flow

Recruitment Statistics and data

analysis

Ancillary analyses Discussion

Description

Intended sample size Actual sample size, if different from intended sample size How sample size was determined:

Power analysis, or methods used to determine precision of parameter estimates Explanation of any interim analyses and stopping rules

Definitions of all primary and secondary measures and covariates: Include measures collected but not included in this report

Methods used to collect data Methods used to enhance the quality of measurements:

Training and rel iability of data collectors Use of multiple observations

Information on val idated or ad hoc instruments created for individual studies, for example, psychometric and biometric properties

Whether conditions were manipulated or naturally observed Type of research design; provided in Table 3 are modules for:

Randomized experiments (Module A I ) Quasi-experiments (Module A2)

Other designs would have different reporting needs associated with them

Total number of participants Flow of participants through each stage of the study Dates defining the periods of recruitment and repeated measurements or follow-up Information concerning problems with statistical assumptions and/or data distributions that

could affect the validity of findings Missing data:

Frequency or percentages of missing data Empirical evidence and/or theoretical arguments for the causes of data that are missing, for

example, missing completely at random (MCAR), missing at random (MAR), or missing not at random (MNAR)

Methods for addressing missing data, if used For each primary and secondary outcome and for each subgroup, a summary of:

Cases deleted from each analysis Subgroup or cell sample sizes, cell means, standard deviations, or other estimates of

�precision, and other descriptive statistics Effect sizes and confidence intervals

For inferential statistics (null hypothesis significance testing) , information about: The a priori Type I error rate adopted Direction, magnitude, degrees of freedom, and exact p level, even if no significant effect is

reported For multivariable analytic systems (e.g . , multivariate analyses of variance, regression analyses,

structural equation modeling analyses, and h ierarchical l inear modeling) also include the associated variance-covariance (or correlation) matrix or matrices

Estimation problems (e.g . , fa ilure to converge, bad solution spaces), anomalous data points Statistical software program, if special ized procedures were used Report any other analyses performed, including adjusted analyses, indicating those that were

prespecified and those that were exploratory (though not necessarily in level of detail of primary analyses)

Discussion of impl ications of ancil lary analyses for statistical error rates Statement of support or nonsupport for all original hypotheses:

Distinguished by primary and secondary hypotheses Post hoc explanations

Simi larities and differences between results and work of others Interpretation of the results, taking into account:

Sources of potential bias and other threats to internal validity Imprecision of measures The overall number of tests or overlap among tests, and Other l imitations or weaknesses of the study

Generalizabil ity (external validity) of the findings, taking into account: The target population Other contextual issues

Discussion of impl ications for future research , program, or policy

Table 2 Module A: Reporting Standards for Studies With an Experimental Manipulation or Intervention (in Addition to Material Presented in Table 1)

Paper section a n d topic

Method Experimental

manipulations or interventions

Units of del ivery and analysis

Results Participant flow

Treatment fidel ity Basel ine data Statistics and data

analysis Adverse events

and side effects Discussion

Description

Detai ls of the interventions or experimental manipulations intended for each study condition, including control groups, and how and when manipulations or interventions were actually admin istered, specifical ly including:

Content of the i nterventions or specific experimental manipulations Summary or paraphrasing of instructions, unless they are unusual or compose the experimental manipulation, i n which case they may be presented verbatim

Method of intervention or manipulation del ivery Description of apparatus and materials used and their function i n the experiment

Special ized equipment by model and supplier Del iverer: who del ivered the manipulations or interventions

Level of professional tra in ing Level of train ing in specific interventions or manipulations Number of del iverers and, in the case of interventions, the M, SO, and range of number of individuals/un its treated by each

Setting: where the manipulations or i nterventions occurred Exposure quantity and duration: how many sessions, episodes, or events were intended to be

delivered, how long they were intended to last Time span : how long it took to del iver the intervention or manipulation to each unit Activities to i ncrease compliance or adherence (e.g . , incentives) Use of language other than English and the translation method

Unit of delivery: How participants were grouped during del ivery Description of the smal lest un it that was analyzed (and in the case of experiments, that was

randomly assigned to conditions) to assess manipulation or intervention effects (e.g . , i ndividuals, work groups, classes)

If the unit of analysis differed from the unit of del ivery, description of the analytical method used to account for th is (e.g . , adjusting the standard error estimates by the design effect or using multi level analysis)

Total number of groups (if intervention was administered at the group level) and the number of participants assigned to each group:

Number of participants who did not complete the experiment or crossed over to other conditions, explain why

Number of participants used in primary analyses Flow of participants through each stage of the study (see Figure 1 ) Evidence on whether the treatment was del ivered as intended Basel ine demographic and cl in ical characteristics of each group Whether the analysis was by intent-ta-treat, complier average causal effect, other or mu ltiple ways

All important adverse events or side effects in each intervention group

Discussion of results taking into account the mechan ism by which the manipulation or intervention was i ntended to work (causal pathways) or alternative mechanisms

If an intervention is involved, discussion of the success of and barriers to implementing the intervention, fidel ity of implementation

General izabi l ity (external valid ity) of the fi ndings, taking into account: The characteristics of the intervention How, what outcomes were measured Length of follow-up Incentives Compliance rates

The "cl in ical or practical significance" of outcomes and the basis for these interpretations

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Table 3 Reporting Standards for Studies Using Random and Nonrandom Assignment of Participants to Experimental Groups

Paper section and topic

Method Random assignment method

Random assignment concealment Random assignment implementation

Masking

Statistical methods

Description

Module A I : Studies using random assignment

Procedure used to generate the random assignment sequence, including detai ls of any restriction (e.g . , blocking, stratification)

Whether sequence was concealeCI until interventions were assigned Who generated the assignment sequence Who enrolled participants Who assigned participants to groups Whether participants, those administering the interventions, and those assessing

the outcomes were unaware of condition assignments If masking took place, statement regarding how it was accompl ished and how

the success of masking was evaluated Statistical methods used to compare groups on primary outcome(s) Statistical methods used for additional analyses, such as subgroup analyses and

adjusted analysis Statistical methods used for mediation analyses

Module A2 : Studies using nonrandom assignment

Method Assignment method

Masking

Statistical methods

Unit of assignment (the unit being assigned to study conditions, e.g. , individual, group, community)

Method used to assign units to study conditions, including details of any restriction (e.g . , blocking, stratification, minimization)

Procedures employed to help minimize potential bias due to nonrandomization le.g . , matching, propensity score matching)

Whether participants, those administering the interventions, and those assessing the outcomes were unaware of condition assignments

If masking took place, statement regarding how it was accomplished and how the success of masking was evaluated

Statistical methods used to compare study groups on primary outcome(s), including complex methods fOr correlated data

Statistical methods used for additional analyses, such as subgroup analyses and adjusted analysis (e.g . , methods for modeling pretest differences and adjusting for them)

Statistical methods used for mediation analyses

From "Reporting Standards for Research in Psychology: Why Do We Need Them? What Might They Be?" by APA Publications and Communications Board Working Group on Journal Article Reporting Standards, 2008, American Psychologist, 63, pp. 842-845. Copyright 2008 by the American Psychological Association.

Meta-Ana lys is Reporti ng Standards (MARS)

I nformation Recommended for I nclusion i n Manuscripts Reporting Meta-Analyses

Table 4 Meta-Analysis Reporting Standards (MARS): Information Recommended for Inclusion in Manuscripts Reporting Meta-Analyses

Paper section and topic

Title

Abstract

Introduction

Method Inclusion and exclusion

criteria

Moderator and mediator analyses

Search strategies

Description

Make it clear that the report describes a research synthesis and include "meta-analysis," if appl icable

Footnote funding source(s) The problem or relation (s) under investigation Study el igibi l ity criteria Type(s) of participants included in primary studies Meta-<malysis methods (indicating whether a fixed or random model was used) Main results (including the more important effect sizes and any important moderators of these

effect sizes) Conclusions ( including l im itations) Implications for theory, policy, and/or practice Clear statement of the question or relation(s) under investigation :

Historical background Theoretical, pol icy, and/or practical issues related to the question or relation(s) of interest Rationale for the selection and coding of potential moderators and mediators of results Types of study designs used in the primary research , thei r strengths and weaknesses Types of predictor and outcome measures used, their psychometric characteristics Populations to which the question or relation is relevant Hypotheses, if any

Operational characteristics of independent (predictor) and dependent (outcome) variable(s) El igible participant populations El igible research design features (e .g . , random assignment only, m in imal sample size) Time period in which studies needed to be conducted Geographical and/or cu ltural restrictions Defin ition of all coding categories used to test moderators or mediators of the relation (s) of

interest Reference and citation databases searched Registries (including prospective registries) searched :

Keywords used to enter databases and reg istries Search software used and version

Time period i n which stud ies needed to be conducted, if applicable Other efforts to retrieve all avai lable studies:

listservs queried Contacts made with authors (and how authors were chosen) Reference lists of reports examined

Method of addressing reports in languages other than English

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Table 4 (continued) Paper section and topic

Search strategies {continuecfl

Coding procedures

Statistical methods

Results

Discussion

Description

Process for determin ing study el igibi l ity: Aspects of reports were examined (Le, title, abstract, and/or ful l text) Number and qual ifications of relevance judges Indication of agreement

How disagreements were resolved Treatment of unpublished studies Number and qualifications of coders (e.g . , level of expertise in the area, tra in ing) Intercoder rel iabil ity or agreement Whether each report was coded by more than one coder and if so, how d isagreements were

resolved Assessment of study qual ity:

I f a qual ity scale was employed, a description of criteria and the procedures for appl ication If study design features were coded, what these were

How missing data were handled Effectsizemetric{s) :

Effect sizes calculating formulas (e.g . , Ms and 50s, use of univariate F to r transform) Corrections made to effect sizes (e.g . , small sample bias, correction for unequal ns)

Effect size averaging and/or weighting method{s) How effect size confidence intervals (or standard errors) were calculated How effect size credibi l ity intervals were calculated, i f used How studies with more than one effect size were handled Whether fixed and/or random effects models were used and the model choice justification How heterogeneity in effect sizes was assessed or estimated Ms and 5Ds for measurement artifacts, if construct-level relationsh ips were the focus Tests and any ad l·ustments for data censoring (e.g . , publ ication bias, selective reporting) Tests for statistica outliers Statistical power of the meta-analysis Statistical programs or software packages used to conduct statistical analyses Number of c itations examined for relevance list of citations included in the synthesis Number of citations relevant on many but not all i nclusion criteria excluded from the meta­

analysis Number of exclusions for each exclusion criterion (e.g . , effect size could not be calculated),

with examples Table g iving descriptive information for each included study, including effect size and sample

size Assessment of study qual ity, if any Tables and/or graphic summaries:

Overal l characteristics of the database (e.g . , number of studies with different research deSigns)

Overal l effect size estimates, including measures of uncertainty (e.g . , confidence and/or credibi l ity intervals)

Results of moderator and mediator analyses (analyses of subsets of studies) : Number of studies and total sample sizes for each moderator analysis Assessment of interrelations among variables used for moderator and mediator analyses

Assessment of bias including possible data censoring Statement of major findings Consideration of alternative explanations for observed results:

Impact of data censoring General izabil ity of conclusions:

Relevant populations Treatment variations Dependent (outcome) variables Research designs

General l imitations (including assessment of the quality of studies included) Impl ications and interpretation for theory, policy, or practice Guidelines for future research

From "Reporting Standards for Research in Psychology: Why Do We Need Them? What Might They Be? " by APA Publications and Communications Board Working Group on Journal Article Reporting Standards, 2008, American Psychologist, 63, pp. 848-849. Copyright 2008 by the American Psychological Association.

Flow of Partic ipants Through Each Stage of an Experiment or

Quasi - Experiment

Figure 1 Flow of Participants Through Each Stage of an Experiment or Quasi-Experiment

Assigned to experimental group (n = )

Received experimental manipulation (n = )

Did not receive experimental manipulation

(n = ) Give reasons

Lost to follow-up (n = ) Give reasons

Discontinued participation (n = ) Give reasons

Analyzed (n = ) Excluded from analysis (n = )

Give reasons

I Assessed for eligibility (n = ) I

Enrollment I

I Assignment I

Follow-Up

Analysis

Excluded (total n = ) because Did not meet inclusion criteria

(n = ) Refused to participate

(n = ) Other reasons

(n = )

Assigned to comparison group (n = )

Received comparison manipulation (if any)

(/I = ) Did not receive comparison manipulation

(n = ) Give reasons

Lost to follow-up (n = ) Give reasons

Discontinued participation (11 = ) Give reasons

Analyzed (n = ) Excluded from analysis (n = )

Give reasons

Note. This flowchart is an adaptation of the flowchart offered by the CONSORT Group (Altman et 01 . , 200 1 ; Moher, Schulz, & Altman, 200 I ) . Journals publishing the original CONSORT flowchart have waived copyright protection.

From "Reporting Standards for Research in Psychology: Why Do We Need Them? What Might They Be? " by APA Publications and Communications Board Working Group on Journal Article Reporting Standards, 2008, American Psychologist, 63, p. 846. Copyright 2008 by the American Psychological Association.

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Numbers in bold refer to section numbers.

A

Abbreviations, 4.22-4.30, 1 06-1 1 1 accepted as words, 4.24, 107 in APA journals, 4.25, 1 0 8 avoidance of, in article title, 2.01, 23 beginning a sentence, 4.30, 1 1 1 decision whether to use, 4.22, 1 07 explanation of, 4.23, 1 07 internal periods in, 4.01, 8 8 introducing, 4.09, 9 3 Latin, 4.02, 4.26, 8 8 , 108 in legal citations, A7.01, 216-217 for measurements, 4.02, 4.40, 88, 1 1 5 for names of group authors, 6.13, 176 overuse of, 4.22, 1 06 plurals of, 4.29, 1 10-1 1 1 reference, 4.02, 6.22, 8 8 , 1 80 for routes of administration, 4.02, 4.27,

88, 1 1 0 scientific, 4.27, 1 0 8-1 1 0 o f state names, 4.02, 6.30, 88, 1 8 7 for statistical copy, 119-123 (Table 4.5) in tables, 5 .12, 5.13, 133-134 underuse of, 4.22, 107 for United States, 4.02, 8 8 used for groups, 72 use of period with, 4.02, 8 8

Abruptness, avoiding, 3.06, 6 5 Abstract, 2.04, 8.03, 25-27, 229

format of, 2.04, 27

I ndex

as original source, 7.01, 202 as secondary source, 7.01, 202

Academic course title, 4.16, 102 Acceptance of manuscript, 8.02, 227-228 Accepted usage, for numbers expressed in

words, 4.32, 1 12 Accuracy, importance of, in reference list, 6.22,

1 8 0 Acknowledgments. See also Credit

in author note, 2.03, 25 of contribution to study, 1.13, 1 8 of participation, 73 of previously published material, 1.09,

14-15 Acronyms, 4.02, 8 8 . See also Abbreviations Action editor, 8.01, 226 Active voice, 2.04, 3.18, 26, 77 Adaptation, 6.10, 173 Addition links, as transition device, 3.05, 65 Ad hoc reviewers, 8.01, 226 Administrative and executive materials,

reference form for, A7.06, 223-224 Advance online publication, 7.01, 198, 199,

200 Adverbs, 3.21, 82-83 Adverse events, reported in Results section,

2.07, 35 Advisory editor, 8.01, 226 African American, use of term, 3.14, 75 Age groups, 3.16, 71, 76 Age ranges, 3. 16, 76

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Agreement of noun and pronoun, 3.20, 79 of subject and verb, 3. 19, 4.12, 78-79, 96

Alignment of manuscript page, 8.03, 229 for statisticaVmathematical copy, 4.46,

118, 123 Alphabetical order

of multiple citations within same parentheses, 6.16, 177-178

of names in reference list, 6.25, 1 81-1 82 Alphabetization, letter by letter, 6.25, 18 1-182 Alternation, between he and she, 3.12, 74 Ambiguity, eliminating, 3.09, 68-69 American Indian, use of term, 3.14, 75 Ampersand, 6.12, 6.27, 175, 184 Ancillary analyses, reported in Results section,

2.07, 34 Animal subjects, described in Method section,

2.06, 30 Anonymous, use of term, 6.15, 6.25, 177, 183 Anthropomorphism, avoidance of, 3.09, 68-69 APA, commitment to fair treatment, 70-71 APA Archives, 7.10, 212 APA Compliance With Ethical Principles Form,

233-234 (Figure 8 .2) APA Copyright Permission Request Form,

237-238 (Figure 8 .4) APA Disclosure of Interests Form, 235 (Figure

8.3) APA Ethics Code, 11 APA journals. See also Journals

abbreviations used in, 4.25, 108 and editorial style, 87 expectation of complete reporting of

results, 2.07, 33 and Internet posting, 8.05, 239 levels of headings for, 3.03, 62 (Table 3 .1) metrication policy, 4.39, 114-115 and reference lists, 180 and supplemental materials, 8.03, 230

Appeal, of rejection, 8.02, 227 Appendices, 2.06, 2.13, 8.03, 29, 38-40, 230

formatting of, 2.13, 39 labeling of, 2.13, 39 in methodological articles, 1 .04, 11 with tables or figures, 5 .05, 127 titling of, 2.13, 39

Arabic numerals for page numbering, 8.03, 229 in reference list, 6.22, 180

Archival copy, in reference list, 6.24, 6.32, 181, 192

Archival function, of journal articles, 10 Archival sources, 6.28, 185

reference examples, 7.10, 212-214 Archives of the History of American Psychology,

University of Akron, 7.10, 212

Article identifier, DOl as, 6.3 1 , 189 Articles. See Journal articles Asian, use of term, 3. 14, 76 Asian American, use of term, 3 . 14, 76 Assistance, with scientific writing in English,

8.03, 228 Associate editor, 8.01, 226 Asterisk, 5.16, 139

used to annotate historical author's original term, 3 .17, 77

used to identify articles in meta-analy sis, 6.26, 1 83

As well as, use of term, 3.23, 85 At risk, use of term, 71 Audiovisual media, reference examples, 7.07,

209-210 Author, as publisher name, 7.02, 203 Author and editor information, as reference

component, 6.27, 184 Author-date citation system, 6.1 1-6.21,

174-179. See also Citations in text Author note, 2.03, 24-25

and copyright of unpublished manuscript, 1 .15, 19-20

for disclosure of conflict or bias, 1 . 12, 17 Author responsibilities

in publication process, 8.03-8.07, 228-243 verifying authorship, 1 . 13, 18-19

Authors anonymous, 6.15, 6.25, 176-177, 183 compliance with ethical, legal, and policy

requirements, 8.04, 231-236 different authors with same surname,

6.25, 6.27, 1 8 3, 184 groups as, 6.13, 6.25, 6.27, 176, 1 83, 184 and masked review, 8.01, 226 multiple, 1 .09, 6.12, 14, 175 postacceptance work with publisher, 8.06,

239-240 and reviewer recommendations, 8.01, 226 unidentified, 6.15, 6.25, 6.27, 176-177,

183, 184 Authorship, 1 .13, 18

agreements concerning, 2.03, 25 definition of, 1 .13, 18 determining, 1 .13, 18 order of, 1 .13, 2.02, 19, 24

Author's name, 2.02, 23-24 format of, 2.02, 23

B

importance of consistency in, 2.02, 23 use of initials, 6. 14, 176

Back-translation, 2.06, 32 Baseline data, reported in Results section, 2.07,

35

Between/and, 3.23, 85 Bias

disclosure of, 1 .12, 17 in language, 3.12-3.17, 70-77

Bibliography, 1 80n1. See also Reference list Biological data, 5.26-5.29, 1 6 1-166 Bisexual men/women, use of term, 3.13, 74 Black, use of term, 3.14, 75 Block quotations, 4.08, 6.03, 92, 1 71 Boldface, for statistical/mathematical copy,

4.45, 118 Book, parts of, 4.17, 103 Book chapters

reference examples, 7.02, 202-205 Book reviews, 1.06, 1 1 Books

publication information for, 6.30, 186-187 reference examples, 7.02, 202-205

Borderline, use of term, 71 Both/and, 3 .23, 85 Boy, use of term, 3.16, 76 Braces, for equations in text, 4.47, 123 Brackets, 4.10, 94-95

for description of form, 6.29, 7.01, 7.02, 1 86, 198, 203

for equations in text, 4.47, 123 in quotations, 6.06, 6.08, 172, 173

Brain images, 5.27, 162-165 Brand names, capitalization of, 4.16, 102 Breaks

in long equations, 123 in URLs, 6.32, 192

Brevity, of abstract, 2.04, 26 Brief reports, 1 .06, 1.09, 1 1 , 13 Bulleted lists, 3 .04, 64-65 Byline, 2.02, 23-24, 24 (Table 2.1)

c Camera-ready copy, 4.49, 124 Capitalization, 4.14-4.20, 101-104

for measurements, 4.40, 115 of names of conditions or groups in

experiment, 4.19, 104 of names of factors, variables, and effects,

4.20, 104 of names of racial/ethnic groups, 3.14, 75 of nouns followed by numerals or letters,

4.17, 103 of proper nouns and trade names, 4.16,

102-103 in titles and headings, 4.15, 4.18, 5.13,

6.29, 101-102, 103, 136-1 37, 185 of words beginning a sentence, 4.14, 101

Captions, 5.23, 1 58-160 abbreviations in, 4.23, 107

Cardinal numbers. See Numbers Case, use of term, 3.15, 72, 76 Case studies, 1 .05, 9, 1 1

abstract for, 2.04, 27

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confidentiality in, 1 .11 , 1 6-1 7 Cause--effect links, as transition device, 3.05, 65 Certification of standards, 1 .11 , 1 6 Charts, 5 .04, 5.21, 127, 15 1. See also Figures Chemical compounds, abbreviations for, 4.27,

4.30, 110, 111 Chemical terms, 4.21, 106 Chicano, use of term, 3.14, 75 Citations

appropriate level of, 169, 1 70 (Figure 6.1 ) of previously published material, 1.09,

14-15 within quotations, 6.09, 173

Citations in text, 6.1 1-6.21 , 1 74-1 79 authors with same surname, 6.14, 1 76 basic styles, 177 (Table 6.1 ) classical works, 6.18, 178-179 groups as authors, 6.13, 176 in-press works, 6.16, 178 one work by multiple authors, 6.12, 1 75 one work by one author, 6.1 1 , 1 75-1 76 parenthetical material, 6.21, 179 personal communications, 6.20, 1 79 secondary sources, 6.17, 1 78 specific parts of source, 6.19, 1 79 two or more works within same

parentheses, 6.16, 1 77-1 78 use of parentheses, 4.09, 93 works with no identified author or with

anonymous author, 6.15, 1 76-1 77 Classical works, citation of, 6.18, 1 74,

178-179 Clinical terms, 71 Colloquial expressions, 3.09, 68 Colon, 4.05, 4.15, 6.30, 90, 101 , 187 Color reproductions, 5 .04, 5 .25, 5 .29, 127,

161, 162, 165 Column heads, in tables, 5 .13, 1 34, 1 36 Column spanners, in tables, 5.13, 1 34, 136 Comma, 4.03, 8 8-89

and brackets, 4.10, 94 in numbers of 1,000 or more, 4.03, 4.37,

89, 114 in references, 6.27, 1 84 serial, 3.04, 4.03, 64, 8 8

Comments, on previously published articles, 1.06, 11

Comparisons, 3.09, 68-69 biased, 72-73 simple, 4.11, 96

Compound terms capitalization of, 4.15, 101 hyphenated, 4.11, 4.13, 95, 97-100

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Compound units, 4. 1 1 , 96 Concentrations, 4.27, 110 Conditional acceptance, 8.01, 227 Confidence intervals, 2.07, 4.10, 4.44, 5.15,

5 .22, 34, 94, 117, 138, 153-156 Confidentiality

in case studies, 1.05, 11 of research participants, 1 . 1 1 , 16 reviewers and, 1 . 12, 18 in shared data, 1 .08, 12

Conflict of interest, 1 .12, 1 .16, 2.03, 8.03, 17-18, 20, 25, 231. See also Disclosure

CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials), 22

Consulting editor, 8.01, 226 Contact person, listed in author note, 2.03, 25 Content footnotes, 2.12, 37-3 8 Continuity, in presentation of ideas, 3.05, 65 Contrast links, as transition device, 3.05, 65 Coordinating conjunctions, 3.23, 85 Copyediting, 8.06, 239 Copyright. See also Permission

for data displays, 5.06, 128 for previously published material, 1 .09, 15 transfer of, 8.05, 236 of unpublished manuscript, 1 .15, 19-20

Copyright Act of 1976, 1 .15 , 19-20 Copyright holder, 8.04, 234-236

and permission to quote, reprint, or adapt, 6.10, 173-174

and permission to use photo, 5 .29, 166 Copyright notice, 1 .15, 20 Copyright permission footnotes, 2.12, 3 8 Copyright registration, 1 .15, 20 Copyright violation, and duplicate publication,

1 .09, 13 Correction notice, 1 .07, 8.06, 12, 240 Correspondence, with journal, 8 .03, 230-231 Costs, of data sharing, 1.08, 12 Court cases, citing, 4.26, 108 Court decisions, reference form for, A7.01,

A7.03, 216, 217-219 Covariates, described in Method section, 2.06,

31 Cover letter, submitted with manuscript, 8.03,

230-231, 232 (Figure 8 .1) Credit. See also Acknowledgments; Publication

credit for copyright holders, 5 .06, 128 for ideas as well as written words, 1 .10,

16 Critique by colleague, 3 . 1 1 , 70 Cropping, of photographs, 5 .29, 165-166 Cross-dresser, use of term, 3.12, 74 CrossRef, 6.3 1 , 18 8-189 Culturally deprived, use of term, 72

D

Dangling modifiers, 3.21, 81-82 Dash, 4.06, 4.13, 90, 97

in empty table cell, 5 .14, 137-138 and placement of footnote number, 2.12, 38 in title of work, 4.15, 101

Data. See also Missing data; Raw data falsifying, 1.07, 12 misrepresented as original, 1 .09, 13 reproduced, 8.04, 232

Data analysis, reported in Results section, 2.07, 32-34

Data displays. See also Figures; Tables canonical forms, 5.02, 126 design and preparation, 5 .02, 126 graphical vs. textual presentation, 5 .03,

126-127 purposes of, 5.01, 125-126

Data retention, 1 .08, 12-13 Data sets, reference examples, 7.08, 210-211 Data sharing, 1 .08, 12-13 Dates, numbers for, 4.3 1, 112. See also

Publication date Decimal quantities, 4.3 1, 4.35 , 111-112,

113-114 Decimal values, in table, 5 .14, 137-13 8 Decked heads, i n table, 5 .13, 135 Declarative sentences, 3.08, 68 Degrees, academic, 2.02, 2.03, 23, 24 Degrees of freedom, 4.09, 94 Dementia, use of term, 3.16, 76 Departmental affiliation, in author note, 2.03,

24 Detail, appropriate levels of, 2.06, 29 Dictionary, as reference, 3.19, 79 Differences, relevant, 71 Differences among researchers, neutral

presentation of, 3.07, 66-67 Dimensions, of figures, 5 .25, 161 Disabilities, 3 .15, 72, 76 Disclosure

of conflict or bias, 1 .12, 1 .16, 8.04, 1 7-1 8, 20, 23 1

of photo manipulation, 5.21, 5 .29, 151, 166

Discussion section, 2.08, 35-36 Displayed equations, 2.13, 4.48, 39, 123-124 Dissemination, of analyses of shared data,

1.08, 13 Distribution, of shared data, 1 .08, 13 Doctoral dissertation

and author note, 2.03, 24 reference examples, 7.05, 207-208 and student first authorship, 1 .13, 19

DOIs (digital object identifiers), 6.3 1 , 6.32, 7.01 , 187-189, 189-192, 198

hidden behind a button in electronic document, 1 9 1 (Figure 6.4)

location for article on database landing page, 1 9 0 (Figure 6 . 3 )

location in journal article, 1 8 9 (Figure 6.2) provided by Crossref.org, 191 (Figure 6 .5 )

DOl System, 6.3 1, 1 8 8-1 89 Domain name, of URL, 6.3 1, 1 8 8 Domain name extension, o f URL, 6.3 1, 1 8 8 Drawings, 5.21, 1 5 1 . See also Figures Dual affiliation, 2.02, 23 Duplicated words. See Plagiarism; Self­

plagiarism Duplicate publication, 1 .09, 6.02, 1 3-15, 1 70

E

Economy of expression, 3.08, 67-68 Ed., Eds., 6.27, 1 84 Editor, as reference component, 6.27, 1 84. See

also Journal editor Editorial we, 3 .09, 69-70 Effect size, reported in Results section, 2.07,

34 Either/or, use of, 3.23, 85-86 Electronic file formats, 5 .04, 127 Electronic mailing lists, reference examples,

7.1 1 , 2 1 4-2 1 5 Electronic sources

and locator information, 6.3 1, 1 8 7-1 89 publication data for, 6.32, 1 89-1 92

Electrophysiological data, 5.26-5.29, 1 6 1-166 Ellipsis points, 6.08, 1 72-1 73 Em dash, 4.13, 97 Emphasis, 4.21, 106

added to words in quotation, 6.08, 1 73 Emphasis added, 6.08, 1 73 Empirical studies, 1.01, 9, 1 0

abstract for, 2.04, 26 Empty cells, in table, 5 .14, 1 3 7-1 3 8 E n dash, 4.13, 9 7 English language, difficulties with, 8.03, 228 Error bars, 5.22, 5 .23, 1 53-156, 1 60 Errors, published, 1 .07, 1 2 E t aI., 4.26, 6.12, 6.16, 7.02, 108 , 1 75, 1 77,

203 Ethical compliance

checklist, 20 planning for, 1 .16, 20

Ethical conduct of research, 8.04, 231 Ethical standards, in publishing, 2.13, 8.04,

1 1 , 40, 23 1 Ethnic/racial identity, 3.14, 75-76 Euphemisms, avoidance of, 3.15, 76 Experimental manipulations, described in

Method section, 2 .06, 3 1-32

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F

Faculty-student collaborations, and authorship issues, 1.13, 1 8-1 9

Failed, use of term, 73 Fair use, 6.02, 6.10, 8.04, 1 70, 1 73, 2 3 1-23 6

o f author's own duplicated words, 1.10, 1 6 Female/male adolescent, use o f term, 3.16, 76 Figurative expressions, 3.10, 70 Figures, 5.20-5 .30, 8.03, 150-167, 230. See

also Captions; Legends in appendices, 2.13, 39 checklist for, 5.30, 1 67 copyright permission for, 2.12, 3 8 formatting of, 5 .04, 1 2 7 information value of, 5 .20, 150-1 5 1 legends and captions, 5.23, 1 5 8-1 60 numbering of, 5.05, 127 permissions for, 8.04, 232 planning, 5.24, 1 6 1 preparation of, 5 .25, 1 6 1 reprinted o r adapted, 1.09, 1 4 standards for, 5.22, 1 52-1 56 types of, 5.21, 1 5 1 use and construction, 5 .20, 1 5 0-1 5 1

Figures, sample complex theoretical formulations, 1 52

(Figure 5 . 1 ) details o f experimental laboratory set-up,

159 (Figure 5 . 8 ) details o f experimental procedure, 1 60

(Figure 5.9 ) display of genetic material-physical map,

166 (Figure 5 . 1 2 ) empirical results from complex

multivariate model, 1 5 7 (Figure 5 .6 ) event-related brain potential data, 1 6 3

(Figure 5 . 1 0 ) flow o f participants i n survey study, 155

(Figure 5 .4) kinds of responses being gathered and

scoring methods, 1 5 8 (Figure 5 .7) neuroimaging data with details of

processing information, 1 64 (Figure 5 .1 1 )

results o f one-way design using error bars, 156 (Figure 5 .5 )

sample and flow of subjects through randomized clinical trial, 1 54 (Figure 5 .3)

theory through set of path models, 153 (Figure 5.2)

First disclosure, 9 First Nations, use of term, 3. 14, 75 Footnotes, 2.12, 3 7-3 8

to credit copyright holder, 6.10, 1 73-1 74 numbering of, 2.12, 3 8 order of, 2.12, 3 8 placement of, 2.12, 3 8

I N D E X

Foreign abbreviations, 4.21, 1 05-106 Formatting of manuscript, 8 .03 , 228-229 Formulas, for statistics, 4.43 , 1 1 6 Fractional quantities, numbers for, 4.3 1 , 4.32,

1 1 1-1 12 Fractions, 4.35, 4.47, 1 13-1 14, 123 FTP ( file transfer protocol), 6.3 1, 1 8 8

G

Gay men, use of term, 3 .13 , 74 Gender, 3 . 12, 73-74 Gender, use of term, 71 Gender expression, 3.12, 74 Gender identity, 3.12, 74 Genera, 4.21, 1 05 General notes, in tables, 5 .16, 138-141 Generic he, 3 .12, 73-74 Gene staining data, 1 62 Genetic data, 5.28 , 1 65 Girl, use of term, 3 . 16, 76 Grammar and usage, 3.18-3.23, 77-86 Graphics software, 5 .22, 5 .25, 156, 161 Graphs, 4.41, 5 .04, 5 .21, 1 1 6, 127, 151 . See

also Figures Gray literature, 7.03 , 205 Greek letters, 4.21, 1 06, 122-123 (Table 4.5) Groups, as authors, 6.13, 6.25, 6.27, 1 76, 1 83,

1 84 Guidelines

for reporting standards, 2. 10, 22, 37 for unbiased language, 3 .12-3 . 17, 70-77

Guidelines for Unbiased Language, 71

H

Hanging indent format, used for References section, 2.11, 37

He, generic, 3 . 12, 73-74 Headings, 3 .02, 62

in appendices, 2 .13, 39 beginning with number, 4.32, 1 12 capitalization of, 4.15, 1 0 1-102 format for, 62 (Table 3 . 1 ) levels of, 3 .02, 3 .03, 62-63, 6 2 (Table 3 .1 ) omitted for introduction, 3.03, 63 in tables, 5.13 , 133-1 37

Hedging, 4.07, 92 He/she, (s)he, use of term, 3 . 12, 74 Hispanic, use of term, 3 .14, 75 Homosexuality, use of term, 3.13, 75 Host name, of URL, 6.3 1 , 1 8 8 HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol), 6.3 1, 1 8 8 HTTPS (hypertext transfer protocol secure),

6.3 1, 1 8 8

Hyphen, 4.13 , 97 in names of persons, 6.27, 1 84

Hyphenation, 3 .06, 3 . 14, 4 .13 , 66, 75, 97-1 00

guide to, 98 (Table 4. 1 )

Image processing, 5.27, 1 62, 165 Importance of findings, described i n Discussion

section, 2.08, 36 Importantly, use of term, 3.21, 82 Inaccuracies, historical and interpretive, 3.17,

76-77 Indentation, paragraph, 8.03, 229 Independent clauses

joined by conjunction, 4.03, 89 separated by semicolon, 4.04, 89

Indexing, automatic, by database crawlers, 6.23, 1 8 1

Inferential statistical tests, reported in Results section, 2.07, 34

Informal publication, 8.05, 236-239 reference examples, 7.09, 21 1-212

In order, use of term, 4.44, 1 1 7 In press, 6.28, 7.09, 1 85, 212 Insertion, of material in quote, 6.08, 1 73 Institutional affiliation, author's, 2.02, 23-24

change in, 2.02, 2.03, 23, 24 lack of, 2.02, 23 placement of, 2.02, 24

Instructions to authors, 8.01, 8.03, 225, 228 to participants, 2.06, 4.07, 3 1 , 9 1

Intellectual property rights, 1.13-1.16, 11 , 1 8-20

Intent-to-treat, reported in Results section, 2.07, 35

Interestingly, use of term, 3.21, 82 International System of Units (SI), 4.39, 1 14 Internet, posting articles on, 8.05, 236-239 Internet message boards, reference examples,

7. 1 1, 2 14-2 1 5 Interpretation of results, in Discussion section,

2.08, 35-36 Intervention fidelity, reported in Results

section, 2.07, 35 Interventions, described in Method section,

2.06, 3 1-32 Introduction, to article, 2.05, 27-28

content of, 2.05, 27-28 format of, 2.05, 28 omission of heading for, 3.03, 63

Inuit, use of term, 3.14, 75 Invented expression, 4.07, 91 Ironic comment, 4.07, 91

Issue number, of journal, 6.30, 7.0 1 , 1 86, 1 9 8 Italics, 4.07, 4.21, 9 1 , 1 04-1 06

J

for emphasis, 4.2 1 , 1 06 for statistical/mathematical copy, 4.45, 1 1 8 for titles of works, 6 .15, 1 76-1 77

Jargon, avoidance of, 3 .08, 3 .09, 67, 68 Journal articles

and reporting standards, 21-22 revised as book chapters, 1 .09, 1 5 types of, 1 .01-1.06, 9-1 1

Journal editor omitted from acknowledgments, 2.03, 25 and questions of duplicate publication,

1 .09, 1 5 and questions o f piecemeal publication,

1 .09, 14-1 5 and questions of prior publication, 1 .09, 1 3 responsibilities of, 8 . 0 1 , 226 and reviewer consultation, 1 .14, 1 9 and sharing o f data, 1 .08, 1 2

Journal publisher, a s copyright holder, 8.04, 234-236

Journals, 9. See also Periodicals

K

and article length, 3 .01, 3.08, 6 1 , 67 instructions to authors, 8.01, 8.03, 225,

228 special issue, 7.01 , 201

Key terms

L

in abstract, 2.04, 26 italicized, 4.07, 4.21 , 9 1 , 1 05

Labeling, 71 for electrophysiological data, 5 .26, 1 62 sensitivity to, 72-73

Labels italicized, 4.21, 105 omitted from headings, 3 .03, 63 for participants, 4.01 , 4.02, 8 8 pejorative, 72

Latin abbreviations, 4.02, 4.26, 8 8 , 1 0 8 Latino, use o f term, 3 .14, 75 Legal materials, referencing, 6 .15 , 6.25,

A7.01-A7.07, 1 77, 1 83, 2 1 6-224 Legal periodicals, reference style of, 2 1 6 Legal standards, i n publishing, 1 1 Legends, 5 .23, 5 .24, 1 5 8-1 60, 1 6 1

abbreviations in, 4.23, 1 0 7

I N D E X _

Legislative materials, reference form for, A7.05 , 221-223

Length of manuscript, 3 .01, 6 1 o f paragraph, 3.08, 68 of sentence, 3 .08, 6 8

Lesbians, use o f term, 3 . 1 3 , 74 Letters

used as abbreviations, 4.2 1 , 1 0 6 used a s statistical symbols o r algebraic

variables, 4.2 1 , 1 05 Letters to the editor, 1 .06, 1 1 Limitations of research, described in

Discussion section, 2.08, 36 Line length, 8.03, 229 Line spacing, 8.03, 229 Linguistic devices, 3 .10, 70 Linguistic examples, italicized, 4.07, 4.2 1 , 9 1 ,

105 Links

DOIs as, 6.3 1 , 1 89 to supplemental archives (online) , 2 .13, 40

Lists, 3 .04, 4.09, 63-65, 93 bulleted, 3 .04, 64-65 numbered, 3 .04, 63-64

LISTSERV, 7. 1 1 , 214 Literature reviews, 1 .02, 1 .03, 9, 1 0, 1 6 9

abstract for, 2.04, 26-27 Literature search, importance of abstract for,

2.04, 26 Longitudinal study, and piecemeal publication,

1 .09, 14-1 5

M

Mac, Me, M', names with, 6.25, 1 82 Manipulation, of photos, 5 .2 1 , 5 .29, 1 5 1 , 1 6 6 Manipulation fidelity, reported i n Results

section, 2.07, 35 Manuscript in preparation, 7.09, 2 1 2 Manuscript submission, checklist for, 8.07,

240-243 Maps, 5 .21 , 7.07, 1 5 1 , 2 1 0 . See also Figures Margins, of pages, 8.03, 229 Masked review, 8.01, 226 Master's theses

and author note, 2.03, 24 reference examples, 7.05, 207-208

Mathematical copy. See Statistical and mathematical copy

Mathematical equations, 2 .13, 4.09, 4.47-4.49, 39, 93, 123-124

displayed, 4.48, 1 23-124 in text, 4.47, 123

Mathematical expressions, use of parentheses with, 4.09, 93

Mathematical formulas, 4.09, 93

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Mathematical functions, numbers for, 4.3 1, 1 1 1-1 1 2

Measurement instruments, reference examples, 7.08, 2 1 0-2 1 1

Measures, described in Method section, 2.06, 3 1 . See also Units of measurement

Meetings and symposia, reference examples, 7.04, 206-207

Men, use of term, 3.16, 76 Meta-analyses, 1 .02, 1 0

abstract for, 2.04, 26-27 reference list for, 6.26, 1 8 3 reporting, 2 .10, 22, 36-37 sample, 57-59 (Figure 2.3 )

Metaphors, 3 .10, 70 mixed, 3 .10, 70

Methodological articles, 1 .04, 9, 1 0-1 1 abstract for, 2 .04, 27

Method section, of article, 2.06, 29-32 Metrication, 4.39-4.40, 1 14-1 1 5 Metric units, 4.40, 1 15

compound units, 4.40, 1 1 5 Minority, use o f term, 3. 14, 75 Minus sign, 4.13, 97 Misplaced modifiers, 3.21, 8 1 Missing data, reported i n Results section, 2.07,

33 Modifiers, misplaced/dangling, 3.2 1 , 8 1-83 Money sums, numbers for, 4.3 1, 1 12 Monographs, 1 .06, 1 1 Mood, 3 . 1 8, 78 Motion picture, 7.07, 209 Multidisciplinary projects, and piecemeal

publication, 1 .09, 14-15 Multiple authors, and previously published

material, 1 .09, 14 Multiple-experiment paper sample, 54-56

(Figure 2.2 ) Multiple experiments, reported in single article,

2.09, 36 Multivolume works, 6.28, 1 85 Music recording, 7.07, 209, 2 1 0

N

Names, of authors, 2.02, 6 .11 , 23-24, 1 75. See also Authorship, order of

format of, 2.02, 23 importance of consistency in, 2.02, 23 initials with, 6.14, 6.20, 1 76, 1 79 inversion of, in reference list, 6.27, 1 84

Names of persons ending in unpronounced s, 4. 12, 97 initials with, 4.02, 88 possessives of, 4.12, 96-97

Naming, of raciaVethnic groups, 3 .14, 75-76 National Institutes of Health (NIH) public

access policy, 8.05, 239 Native American, use of term, 3 . 14, 75 Native North American, use of term, 3 . 14, 75 N.d., 6.28, 1 85 Neither/nor, use of, 3 .23, 85-8 6 Neuter pronouns, 3 .20, 80 NHST (null hypothesis statistical significance

testing) , 2.07, 33 Nonrestrictive clause, 4.03, 8 8 Norm, implicit, 72-73 Normal, use of term, 72 Notes, to tables, 5 . 1 6, 1 3 8-14 1 . See also

Footnotes Notice of duplicate publication, 1 .09, 1 5 Not only/but also, use of, 3 .23, 86 Noun strings, 3.06, 66 Numbered lists, 3 .04, 63-64 Numbering

of displayed equations, 4.48, 1 23-124 of footnotes, 2. 12, 3 8 o f material i n appendices, 2 .13, 3 9 o f tables and figures, 5 .05, 1 2 7

Number o f pages. See Length, o f manuscript Numbers, 4.3 1-4.38, 1 1 1-1 14. See also Page

numbers in abstract, 4.3 1, 1 1 1 expressed in numerals, 4.3 1, 1 1 1-1 1 2 expressed i n numerals and words

combined, 4.33, 1 1 2-1 1 3 expressed i n words, 4.32, 1 12 ordinal, 4.34, 1 1 3 plurals of, 4.38, 1 14

Numerals as numerals, 4.3 1, 1 1 2 Numerator and denominator, 4 .11 , 95

o Obituaries, 1 .06, 1 1 Older adults, use of term, 3 . 16, 76 Omission, selective, 2.07, 32

of material within quote, 6.08, 1 72-1 73 One-experiment paper, sample, 41-53 (Figure

2 .1 ) Online archive, URL for, 6.32, 1 92 Online communities, reference examples, 7. 1 1 ,

2 1 4-2 1 5 Online material, direction quotation of, 6.05,

1 7 1-1 72 Online networks, as form of personal

communication, 6.20, 1 79 Only, use of, 3.21, 8 1 Opposite sex, use o f term, 3 . 12, 74 Ordinal numbers, 4.34, 1 1 3

Organization, 3.01-3.04, 61-65 of empirical studies, 1 .01 , 1 0 o f literature reviews, 1 .02, 1 0 o f theoretical articles, 1 .03, 1 0

Outline, use of, 3 . 1 1 , 70

p Page numbers, 8.03, 229, 230. See also

Electronic sources, and locator information for quotations, 6.19, 1 79

Page order, of manuscript, 8.03, 229-230 Para., 6.05, 1 72 Paragraph, single-sentence, 3.08, 68 Paragraphing, 8.03, 229 Paragraph length, 3 .08, 68 Parallelism

in comparisons, 3.09, 69, 72 of figures, 5 .24, 1 6 1 of ideas, 3.23, 84-85 in lists and table stubs, 3.23, 86 in raciaVethnic identifications, 3 .14, 75 in series, 3.23, 86

Paraphrasing, 1 . 10, 6.03-6.10, 1 5-16, 1 70-1 74

Parentheses, 4.09, 93-94 back to back, 4.09, 94 within brackets, 4.10, 94 brackets within, 4 .10, 94 for equations in text, 4.47, 123 nested, 4.09, 94 and placement of footnote number, 2.12,

38 Parenthetical notes, for second and subsequent

references to footnote, 2.12, 3 8 Participant flow, reported i n Results section,

2.07, 34-35 Participants. See Research participants Participants, use of term, 73 Participation, acknowledgment of, 73 Participle, used as noun, 3.20, 80 Parts of work

in citations of classical works, 6.18, 1 79 specific, 6.19, 1 79

Passive voice avoidance of, 3.2 1 , 73, 8 1 uses of, 3 . 1 8 , 77

Past tense, 3 .18, 78 and smoothness of style, 3.06, 65-66 used in abstract, 2.04, 26

Patents, reference form for, A7.07, 224 Patient, usc of term, 3 . 1 5 , 72, 76 Peer review, 8.01, 1 0, 225-228 . See also

Reviewers for supplemental materials, 2 .13, 40

People-first language, 3 . 1 5 , 72, 76 Per, 4.1 1 , 95 Percentages

numbers for, 4.3 1 , 1 1 1-1 1 2 symbol for, 4.45 , 1 1 8

I N D E X

Percentiles, numbers for, 4.3 1, 1 1 1-1 1 2 Period, 4.02, 8 8

not used with URL, 6.32, 1 92 omitted from metric unit, 4.40, 1 1 5

Periodicals of limited circulation or availability, 1 .09,

1 3 publication information for, 6.30, 1 86 reference examples, 7.01 , 1 9 8-202 volume numbers, 4.2 1 , 1 05

Permission for previously published material, 1 .09, 1 5 to quote, reprint, or adapt, 6 .10, 8.04,

1 73-1 74, 23 1-236 to reproduce data displays, 5 .06, 128 for reuse of photo, 5 .29, 1 66

Personal communications, 6.20, 7. 1 0, 1 74, 1 79, 2 1 3

as archival materials, 6.20, 1 79 omitted from reference lists, 6.20,

1 79-1 80 Phonemes, English, 4. 1 1 , 95 Photographs, 5.21, 5 .29, 1 5 1 , 1 65-1 66. See

also Figures manipulation of, 5 .29, 1 6 6

Photomicrographs, 5 .27, 1 65 Piecemeal publication, 1 .09, 3 .01, 1 3-15, 6 1 Plagiarism, 1 . 10, 6.01, 1 5-16, 1 70 Plot symbols, 5.25, 1 6 1 Plurals

of abbreviations, 4.29, 1 1 0-1 1 1 for metric units, 4.40, 1 1 5 o f nouns o f foreign origin, 3. 19, 4.12, 79,

96 of numbers, 4.38, 1 14

Podcast, 7.07, 2 1 0 Points o n scale, numbers for, 4.3 1 , 1 1 2 Population parameters, symbols for, 4.45, 1 1 8 Possessives, 4.12, 96-97 Precision and clarity, 3 .09, 68-70, 71 Prefixed words, 1 00 (Table 4.3 ) Prefixes, 99 (Table 4.2) , 1 00 Preparation of manuscript, 8.03, 228-2 3 1 Preprint archive, 7.01 , 200 Present perfect tense, 3 .18 , 78

and smoothness of style, 3.06, 65-66 Present tense

and smoothness of style, 3 .06, 66 used in abstract, 2.04, 26

Previously published research, and duplicate publication, 1 .09, 1 3-14

Probability notes, in tables, 5 . 16, 1 3 9-141

18 I N D E X

Pronouns, use of, 3.06, 3.09, 3.20, 66, 68, 79-80

Proofreading, 8.06, 239-240 Proper nouns, capitalization of, 4.16, 1 02-103 Proportions, 4.05, 90 ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database,

7.05, 207 Protocol, of URL, 6.3 1 , 1 8 8 Publication credit, 1.13, 1 8-1 9 Publication data, for electronic sources, 6.32,

1 89-1 92 Publication date

original, 6.18, 1 78 as reference component, 6.28, 1 85

Publication information, as reference component, 6.30, 1 8 6-1 8 7

Publisher name, 6.30, 1 8 7 Publisher policy requirements, 8.05, 236-239 Punctuation, 4.01-4.11 , 8 7-96

of direct quotation, 6.07, 1 72 with equations, 123 for statistical/mathematical copy, 4.46,

1 1 8-123 Punctuation marks. See also Entries for

individual punctuation marks and continuity, 3.05, 65 spacing after, 4.01, 87-8 8

P values, 4.35, 5 .16, 1 14, 1 3 9-140

a Quantity, approximations of, 3.09, 68 Quartiles, numbers for, 4.3 1 , 1 1 1-1 12 Quotation, direct, 6.03, 1 70-1 7 1 Quotation marks, 1.10, 1 5

for article title, 6 .15, 1 76-1 77 for direct quotation, 6.03, 1 70-1 71 double, 4.07, 91 with other punctuation, 4.08, 92 single, 4.08, 92

Quotations accuracy of, 6.06, 1 72 changes from the source, 6.07-6.08,

1 72-1 73 inserted material in, 4.10, 94 of online material, 6.05, 1 71-1 72 permission for, 2.12, 6.10, 8.03, 38,

1 73-1 74, 233 retention of original language, 3.17, 77 in text, 4.08, 4.09, 92, 93

Quoting, 6.03-6.10, 1 70-1 74

R

Racial/ethnic identity, 3.14, 75-76

Radiological data, 5 .26-5.29, 1 6 1-166 Ragged margin, 8.03, 229 Ratios, 4.01, 4.05, 4.3 1, 88, 90, 1 1 1-1 1 2 Raw data, 7.08, 2 1 0

provided i n Results section, 2.07, 3 4 retention of, 8.05, 240 in supplemental online archives, 2.07, 32

Reader, ideal, 3.07, 67 Reading aloud, 3.06, 3.11, 65, 70 Reading by colleague, 3.06, 3 .11 , 65, 70 Reanalysis, of published data, 1.09, 14 Recruitment, reported in Results section, 2.07,

32 Redundancy, 3.08, 3.23, 67, 85 Reference abbreviations, 4.02, 6.22, 8 8 , 1 80 Reference books, reference examples, 7.02,

202-205 Reference components, 6.27-6.32, 1 8 3-1 92 Reference examples, 1 93

administrative and executive materials, A7.06, 223-224

archival documents and collections, 7.10, 2 1 2-214

audiovisual media, 7.07, 209 books, reference books, and book

chapters, 7.02, 202-205 court decisions, A7.03, 2 1 7-2 1 9 data sets, software, measurement

instruments, and apparatus, 7.08, 2 1 0-2 1 1

doctoral dissertations and master's theses, 7.05, 207-208

Internet message boards, electronic mailing lists, and online communities, 7. 1 1, 2 14-2 1 5

legislative materials, A7.05, 221-223 meetings and symposia, 7.04, 206-207 patents, A7.07, 224 periodicals, 7.01, 1 98-202 reviews and peer commentary, 7.06,

208-209 statutes, A7.04, 2 1 9-221 technical and research reports, 7.03,

205-206 unpublished and informally published

works, 7.09, 2 1 1-2 1 2 Reference list, 6.22-6.26, 8.02, 1 74, 1 80-1 83,

230 anonymous works, 6.15, 1 77 archival copy or version of record, 6.24,

1 8 1 capitalization o f titles in, 4 .15, 1 0 1 classical works, 6.18, 1 79 consistency in, 6.23, 1 8 1 construction of, 6.22, 1 8 0 locating entries in, 6.14, 1 76

for meta-analyses, 6.26, 183 multiple works by same authors in same

year, 6.16, 178 multiple works by same first author, 6.25,

182 omission of personal communications

from, 6.20, 179 order of references in, 6.25, 181-183 for statistics, 4.42, 116 use of colon in, 4.05, 90

References section, 2.1 1 , 37. See also Citations Rejection, of submitted manuscript, 1 .11 , 8.02,

16-17, 227-228 as duplicate publication, 1.09, 15

Relative pronouns, 3.22, 83 Replies, to previously published articles, 1 .06,

11 Reporters, A7.01, 216 Reporting standards, for journal articles,

21-23 Reprinting, 6.10, 173 Republished works, text citation of, 4.11 , 95 Rereading, 3.11 , 70 Research data. See Data retention; Data sharing Research design

and reporting standards, 22 specified in Method section, 2.06, 31

Research participant characteristics, described in Method section, 2.06, 29-30

Research participants grouping of, 2.06, 32 protection of rights and welfare of,

1 .11-1 .12, 11, 16-18 Research sponsor, and data sharing, 1.08, 12 Research syntheses, 1.02, 10 Resolution, of figures, 5 .25, 161 Respectively, use of term, 4.44, 117 Restrictive clauses, 3.22, 4.03, 83, 89 Resubmission, of rejected manuscript, 8.02,

227-228 Results, modifying, 1 .07, 12 Results and Discussion section, 2.08, 35 Results section, 2.07, 32-35 Retraction, publisher's

of duplicate publication, 1.09, 15 of published article, 1 . 1 1 , 16

Retrieva bility of correction notice, 1 .07, 12 and duplicate publication, 1.09, 14 of journal articles, 10

Retrieval dates, for electronic sources, 6.32, 192

Reverse italicization, 4.21, 104 Reviewers, 8.01-8.02, 226-228

and bias, 1.12, 18 and confidentiality, 1 .12, 1 .14, 18, 19

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and conflict of interest, 1 .12, 17-18 omitted from acknowledgments, 2.03, 25

Review of proofs, 8.06, 239-240 Reviews and peer commentary, reference

examples, 7.06, 208-209 Revision, of rejected manuscript, 8.02,

227-228 Roman numerals, 4.36, 114 Routes of administration, abbreviations for,

4.02, 4.27, 88, 110 Rules, in tables, 5 . 1 7, 141 Running heads, 2.01, 8.03, 23, 229, 230

s Sample papers, 40-59 (Figures 2.1-2.3) Sample size, described in Method section, 2.06,

30-31 Sampling procedures, described in Method

section, 2.06, 30 Sans serif type, 8.03, 229 Scale anchors, 4.07, 4.21 , 91, 105 Scales, 4.21, 105 Scientific abbreviations, 4.27, 108-110 Scientific knowledge, ensuring accuracy of,

1.07-1.10, 11, 12-16 Scores, numbers for, 4.3 1 , 112 Screen name, use of, 7.1 1 , 215 Secondary analyses, in empirical studies, 1.01,

10 Self-plagiarism, 1.10, 2.06, 6.02, 16, 29, 170 Self-referencing, 1 .10, 16 Semicolon, 4.04, 89-90

serial, 3.04, 4.04, 64, 90 used to separate citations in parentheses,

6.16, 1 78 Sensitivity, 3.14, 72-73, 75 Sentence

beginning with number, 4.32, 112 initial capitalization of, 4.14, 101 punctuation of, 4.02, 87, 8 8 for statisticaVmathematical copy, 4.41,

116 Seriation, 3.04, 4.03, 4.04, 4.09, 63-65, 88,

90, 93 numbers in, 4.3 1, 112 parallelism in, 3.23, 86

Series, in reference list, 6.25, 182 Series labels, used for groups, 72 Serif type, 8.03, 228-229 Sex, use of term, 71 Sex reassignment, use of term, 3.12, 74 Sexual behavior, use of term, 71 Sexual orientation, 3.13, 71, 74-75 Sexual orientation, use of term, 3.13, 74

I N D E X

Shading, in figures, 5.25, 1 6 1 She/he, (s)he, use of, 3.12, 74 Shortening of manuscript, 3.01, 3 .08, 6 1 , 67 Short sentences, use of, 3.08, 67 Short words, use of, 3 .08, 67 Sic, use of term, 6.06, 1 72 Signed release, from subject of photo, 5.29,

1 6 6 Since, use o f term, 3.22, 83-84 Slang, 4.07, 9 1 Slash (virgule, solidus, shill ) , 4.1 1 , 95-96

used in URLs, 6.3 1, 1 8 8 Smoothness of expression, 3.06, 65-66 Socially dominant groups, as implied standard,

73 Software, reference examples, 7.08, 2 1 0-2 1 1 Spacing

after punctuation marks, 4.01, 4.40, 8 7-8 8, 1 1 5

for statisticaVmathematical copy, 4.46, 1 1 8-123

Special characters, 8.03, 229 Special circumstances, disclosure of, 2.03, 25 Species names, 4.2 1, 1 05 Specificity, 3 .14, 71 , 75 Specific notes, in tables, 5 . 16, 1 3 8-141 Spelling, 4.12-4.13, 96-1 00

preferred, 4.12, 96-97 Spelling check, 8.02, 230 Standard typeface, for statisticaVmathematical

copy, 4.45, 1 1 8 State names, 4.02, 8 8

abbreviations for, 4.02, 6.30, 8 8 , 1 8 7 Statistical and mathematical copy, 4.41-4.46,

1 1 6-123 preparation of, 4.49, 1 24

Statistical functions, numbers for, 4.3 1, 1 1 1-1 1 2

Statistical methods, described i n Results section, 2.07, 33-34

Statistical power, described in Method section, 2.06, 30-3 1

Statistical symbols, 4.45, 1 1 7-1 1 8 , 1 1 9-123 (Table 4.5)

Statistical values, 4.09, 93 Statistics

abbreviations for, 4.28, 1 1 0 formulas for, 4.43, 1 1 6 including parentheses, 4.10, 95 references for, 4.42, 1 1 6 reported in Results section, 2.07, 32 in text, 4.44, 1 1 6-1 1 7

Statutes, reference form for, A7.01, A7.04, 2 1 6, 2 1 9-22 1

Stigmatization, 72-73 Stub column, in table, 5 .13, 1 34 Stub heads, in table, 5 .13, 1 3 6

Students, and first authorship, 1 . 13, 1 9 Style, editorial, 8 7 . See also Writing style Style manuals, 8 7 Subjects, 73

number of, 4.45, 1 1 8 Subjunctive mood, 3 .18, 78 Subordinate conjunctions, 3 .22, 8 3-84 Subscripts, 4.2 1 , 1 06

for statisticaVmathematical copy, 4.46, 1 1 8-123

in tables, 5 . 16, 140 Subsections

headings for, 3.02, 62 in Method section, 2.06, 29

Suffixes, 99 (Table 4.2) for multiple citations by same authors in

same year, 6.16, 6.25, 178, 1 82 to personal name, 2.02, 24

Superscript for footnote numbers, 2.12, 3 8 for statisticaVmathematical copy, 4.46,

1 1 8-123 Supplemental archives (online) , 2.06, 2.13,

5 .04, 7.01, 22-23, 29, 3 8-40, 127, 1 98, 201 and biological data, 1 62 figures in, 5 .20, 1 5 1 formats used in, 2 .13, 39-40 for meta-analyses, 2. 10, 3 7 raw data in, 2.07, 3 2 referenced i n footnote, 2. 12, 3 8 and report o f ancillary analyses, 2.07, 34 tables in, 5 .10, 1 3 0

Supplemental materials, 2 . 1 3 , 3 8-40 in methodological articles, 1 .04, 1 1 submitted with manuscript, 8.03, 230

Synonyms, use of, 3.06, 66

T

Tables, 5.07-5. 19, 5 .20, 8.03, 128-150, 1 5 1 , 230

abbreviations in, 4.23, 1 0 7 i n appendices, 2 . 1 3 , 3 9 basic components of, 129 (Table 5 . 1 ) body of, 5 .14, 1 3 7-1 3 8 canonical forms, 5 .09, 1 29-1 30 checklist for, 1 5 0 (Table 5 . 1 9 ) citing, 5 .10, 1 3 0 combining, 5 . 1 1 , 1 3 0 conciseness in, 5.07, 5 .14, 128, 1 3 8 confidence intervals in, 5 .15 , 1 3 8 copyright permission for, 2.12, 3 8 formatting, 5.04, 127 headings, 5 .13, 1 33-1 3 7 layout of, 5 .08, 128, 1 3 0 (Table 5 . 2 ) notes in, 5 . 16, 1 3 8-141

numbering of, 5 .05, 127 permissions for, 8.04, 232 relation between, 5 . 1 1 , 1 3 0 relation t o text, 5 . 1 0, 1 3 0 reprinted o r adapted, 1 .09, 14 ruling of, 5 . 1 7, 141 specific types of, 5 .18, 14 1-142 for statisticaUmathematical copy, 4.41,

1 1 6 titles, 5 . 12, 1 3 3

Tables, parts of, 4 .17, 1 0 3 Tables, sample

confidence intervals, 1 3 9 (Table 5 . 8 ) , 140 (Table 5 .9 )

correlations i n which the values for two samples are presented, 1 3 6 (Table 5 .6 )

detailed specifications of complex experimental designs, 1 34 (Table 5 .4 )

display of a sample's characteristics, 135 (Table 5 .5 )

display of psychometric properties of key outcome variables, 142 (Table 5 . 1 0 )

factor loadings table, 1 3 1-132 (Table 5 .3 ) hierarchical multiple regression table, 145

(Table 5 . 1 3 ) model comparison table, 146 (Table 5 . 1 4 ) multilevel model table, 147-1 48 (Table

5 . 1 5 ) one-degree-of-freedom statistical contrasts,

143 (Table 5 . 1 1 ) regression table, 144 (Table 5 . 1 2 ) results of fitting mathematical models, 137

(Table 5 .7) word table, 149 (Table 5 . 1 6 )

Table spanners, 5 . 13, 1 3 6 Target precision, described i n Method section,

2.06, 30-3 1 Technical and research reports, reference

examples, 7.03, 205-206 Technical terms, italicized, 4.07, 4.21, 9 1 , 1 05 Television or radio series, 7.07, 209, 2 1 0 Temporary compounds, 98-99 Test items, 4.07, 9 1

permissions for, 8.04, 233 Test scores, 4.2 1 , 1 05 Test titles, 4. 18, 1 03 That, which, use of, 3 .20, 3 .22, 79, 83 Theoretical articles, 1 .03, 9, 1 0

abstract for, 2.04, 2 7 Third person, replaced with personal pronoun,

3 .09, 69 Time, units of, 4.27, 1 0 8-109

numbers for, 4.3 1, 1 1 2 Time links, as transition device, 3.05, 65 Timing, of peer review, 8.01, 226 Title

abbreviated, 2.01, 22-23

of appendices, 2 .13, 3 9 beginning with number, 4.32, 1 12 of book or report, 6.29, 1 85-1 86 capitalization of, 4.1 5 , 1 0 1-1 02 choice of, 2.01, 22-23 format of, 2.0 1 , 23 italicized, 4.2 1 , 1 04-1 05 length of, 2.01, 23

I N D E X

nonroutine information in, 6.29, 1 8 6 o f periodical, 6.29, 1 85 as reference component, 6.29, 1 85-1 8 6 as statement o f content, 2.01, 22-23 use of quotation marks for, 4.07, 9 1

Titles of persons, omitted from byline, 2.02, 23 Titles of tables, 5 . 12, 1 3 3 Tone, o f writing, 3 .07, 66-67 Trade names, capitalization of, 4.16, 1 02-1 03 Trans. , 6 .18, 1 78 Transfer of copyright, 8.05, 236 Transgender, use of term, 3 . 12, 74 Transitional words, and continuity, 3 .05, 65 Transition devices

and continuity, 3.05, 65 and smoothness of expression, 3 .06, 65

Translation, 6.18, 7.01, 1 78-1 79, 1 99 of instrument, 2.06, 32

Transsexual, use of term, 3 . 12, 74 TREND (Transparent Reporting of Evaluations

With Nonexperimental Designs) , 22 Trigonometric terms, 4.21 , 1 06 Tutorials, literature reviews as, 1 .02, 1 0 Two-experiment paper, sample, 54-56 (Figure

2.2 ) Typeface, choice of, 8.03, 228-229 Typesetting, 8.06, 239

u Unit length, varied, 3 .08, 68 Units of measurement, 4.03, 4.1 1 , 89, 95

abbreviations for, 4.02, 4.23, 4.27, 8 8 , 107, 1 08 , 109 (Table 4.4 )

metric system, 4.40, 1 1 5 numbers with, 4.3 1 , 1 1 1

Units of time, 4.27, 1 0 8-1 09 numbers for, 4.3 1 , 1 12

University department, 4.16, 1 02 Unpublished manuscript

and author copyright, 1 . 1 5 , 1 9-20 reference examples, 7.09, 2 1 1-2 1 2

URLs (uniform resource locators) , 6.3 1 , 6.32, 7.01, 1 8 7-1 88 , 1 91-192, 198

testing of, 6.32, 1 92 U.S. government contract, 8.05, 236 U.S. Government Printing Office, 7.03, 205

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v Verbs, 3.1S, 77-78 Verb tenses, 3.1S, 78. See also Past tense;

Present perfect tense; Present tense consistent use of, 3.06, 65-66

Version, 6.1S, 1 78 Version of record, 6.24, 6.31, 6.32, S.05, 1 8 1 ,

187, 1 92, 237 Video, 7.07, 209 Volume number, of journal, 6.30, 1 8 6

w We, editorial, 3.09, 69-70 Web addresses, 4.02, 8 8 Weight, o f elements in figure, 5.25, 1 6 1 Which/that, use of, 3.20, 79 While, instead of although, and, but, 3.22, 84 While/since, use of, 3.22, 83-84 Who, use of, 3.20, 79 Who/whom, use of, 3.20, 80 Women, use of term, 3.16, 76 Word choice, 3.09, 68

Wordiness, 3.0S, 67 Word limit, for abstract, 2.04, 27 Would, use of, 3.1S, 78 Writing style, 3.05-3.11, 65-70

strategies to improve, 3.11 , 70 Written agreement, for data sharing, LOS,

12-1 3 Written consent, for publication of case

material, 1 .11 , 1 7

v Year

in exact dates, 4.03, 89 in parenthetical reference citations, 4.03,

89 Year of publication, in author-date citations,

6.11, 175 Young man/woman, use of term, 3.16, 76

z Zero, used with decimal fraction, 4.35, 1 1 3

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magazine article, 200 manuscript submitted to, 211 newspaper article, 200 special issue, 201 supplemental material, 201

Books, Reference Books, and Book Chapters

book, entire, electronic version of print, 203 electronic version of republished, 203 electronic-only, 203 limited circulation, 204 print, 203

chapter in an edited book, 204 edited book, 204 entry in a reference book, 205 revised or subsequent edition, 205

Technical and Research Reports corporate author, report from, 205-206 government report, corporate author, 205 issue brief, 206 nongovernmental organization, authored

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Meetings and Symposia conference paper abstract, retrieved

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doctoral dissertation, from an institutional database, 208 from the web, 208

doctoral thesis, from university outside the United States, 208

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Reviews and Peer Commentary article, peer commentary on, 209 book, review of, 209 video, review of, 209 video game, review of, no author, 209

Audiovisual Media podcast, 210 video, 209

Data Sets, Software, Measurement Instruments, and Apparatus

apparatus, 211 data set, 211 measurement instrument, 211 software, 211

Unpublished and Informally Published Works

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personal communications (see section 6.20)

unpublished, manuscript with a university cited, 211 raw data from study, 212

Archival Documents and Collections

archival source, corporate author, 214 historical publication, limited circula­

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collection of, from an archive, 213 private collection, from a, 213 repository, from a, 213

unpublished papers, 213

Internet Message Boards, Electronic Mailing Lists, and Other Online Communities

blog post, 215 message posted on,

an electronic mailing list, 215 a newsgroup, online forum, or discus­

sion group, 215 video blog post, 215