37. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by American Psychological Association

Author:American Psychological Association [Association, American Psychological]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-01-17T20:51:18+00:00

D I S P L A Y I N G R E S U L T S

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 information 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:

Better:

G rade level

G rade

3

3

4

4

5

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 abbreviation 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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