APA Format: Quick, Simple, and Comprehensive
This is the user-friendly--and comprehensive--guide for preparing research papers, posters, and slide presentations according to the guidelines of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (2010):
- Detailed guidelines for writing research manuscripts in correct APA style--from the title page to the appendices and every section in-between.
- Step-by-step instructions for formatting APA-style papers in Microsoft Office Word(R). Separate chapters show how to create research posters and slide presentations with Microsoft Office PowerPoint(R).
- Best-practices for reporting results from statistical analyses: frequency tables, boxplots, descriptive statistics, t tests, ANOVA, correlations, chi-square, and more. Ten chapters cover these widely-used statistical procedures, and each is packed with easy-to-understand sample write-ups.
- Correct APA format for listing journal articles, books, online videos, and other sources in the References section; a separate chapter shows how to cite those sources in the body of the report.
- Each topic is illustrated with clear, easy-to-understand examples: a complete 40-page sample paper, sample research posters, a complete PowerPoint(R) slide presentation, and multiple examples of statistical results presented in text, tables, and figures.
Larry Hatcher, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at Saginaw Valley State University in Saginaw, Michigan. He is author or co-author of six textbooks on statistics and data analysis, including Advanced Statistics in Research: Reading, Understanding, and Writing Up Data Analysis Results, A Step-by-Step Approach to Using SAS(R) for Univariate & Multivariate Statistics and the widely-cited A Step-by-Step Approach to Using the SAS(R) System for Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling.