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

Chi-Square Test of Goodness of Fit

A nice link between the Descriptive Statistics (Frequency Table) and the Inferential Statistics (Chi-Square Test of Goodness of Fit) One of the concepts discussed early in the Introductory Statistics course is the Frequency Table, which describes the sample’s frequency (descriptive statistics). An inferential-statistics method that can be applied to such a frequency table is Chi-Square … 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

Correlation: What’s the relationship between your height and your parents’ height?

The following graph shows the relationship between the two. The point of this figure is that the taller the parents, the taller the offspring (and vice versa). We should note, though, that the offspring of even very tall parents would not equal the height of its parents, but rather would be slightly shorter in stature … 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

APA Style: 2.11 Text (Body). How to Format the First Page of the Text (on page 3)?

First of all, here’s an example of the start of a text. When you start the main text of your research paper, make sure to insert a page break after page 2 by doing ctrl+enterat at the bottom of your abstract page (on page 2). Then, the main text that should start from page 3 … Read more

APA Style: 2.9 Abstract & Keywords (p. 38). How to Format the Abstract and Keywords?

Abstract First of all, the abstract is placed on its own page after the title page (i.e., page 2). Here is an example. [Format of the label “Abstract”] [Format of the Contents] Keywords [Format of the label, “Keywords:”] [Format of the contents]