APA Style for Papers, Presentations, and Statistical Results: The Complete Guide

This user-friendly guide makes it easy to prepare research papers, posters, and slide presentations in the style required by the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (2010): Comprehensive coverage of each section of an APA-style manuscript: title page, abstract, introduction, method, results, references, tables, figures, appendices, and more. Step-by-step instructions for correctly formatting all sections of an APA-style paper with Microsoft Office Word® (yes—even the running head!) Easy-to-understand instructions for creating research posters and slide presentations with Microsoft Office PowerPoint®. Comprehensive examples showing how to report results from widely-used statistical procedures, all in correct APA style: frequency tables, boxplots, descriptive statistics, t tests, one-way ANOVA, two-way ANOVA, correlations, chi-square, and more. Best-practices for reporting p values, confidence intervals, and effect size according to recommendations from APA, AERA, and ASA. Correct APA format for listing journal articles, books, online videos, and other sources in the References section; correct format for citing those sources in the body of the report. Clear, easy-to-understand examples illustrating each concept: a comprehensive 40-page sample paper, sample research posters, a complete PowerPoint® slide presentation, plus sample write-ups of all statistical procedures in text, tables, and figures.