How to Cite Conference Works in APA Style?

First of all, here are examples. Paper Presentations Maddox, S., Hurling, J., Stewart, E., & Edwards, A. (2016, March 30–April 2). If mama ain’t happy, nobody’s happy: The effect of parental depression on mood dysregulation in children [Paper presentation]. Southeastern Psychological Association 62nd Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United States. Parenthetical citation in text: (Maddox … Read more

How to Write APA-Style (General) Discussion

Note, use the present tense. Here are the main tasks that you would want to complete in the general discussion section of your research paper along with useful expressions for each task. 1. Summarize your study • [Motivation/Purpose] The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of … • [Method Summary] To … Read more

Creating an APA Style Table: Excel Example

Let’s say you created a frequency table using one of the methods from 3 Excel Methods for Creating a Frequency Table. The below image shows a frequency table using the pivot-table method (Method 3). How could we create an APA-style table based on the Excel table (pivot table)? Step 1: Copy and paste the pivot … Read more

APA Style: How to Report Participant (Subject) Characteristics?

Here’s an example. The second group included 40 cisgender women between the ages of 20 and 30 years (M = 24.2, SD = 2.1, Mdn = 25.1), all of whom had emigrated from El Salvador; had at least 12 years of education; had been permanent residents of the United States for at least 10 years; … Read more