Survey research and design in psychology/Assessment/Lab report/Style
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Lab report - Style guidelines
- Follow APA style except:
- add a cover sheet
- use single-spacing (for electronic submission; double-spacing is a relic from paper submission days - it allowed room for hand-written comments)
- do not include author name on the title page (to facilitate blind marking)
- include any tables or figures in situ (i.e., embed them without the main body of the report rather than putting them after the references)
- formatting of any appendices does not need to follow APA style
- Example (owl.english.purdue.edu)
- The most important aspects of APA style for this lab report are:
- Times New Roman 12 pt font
- Running head with page numbers
- Page margins
- Left-justify body text
- Captioning and layout of tables
- Right alignment of statistics in tables
- Citations and referencing (including for electronic references and use of DOIs)
- Symbols, abbreviations, and formatting of statistical symbols (including M, SD, skew, kurt, N, n, F, t, p, r, R, R2, sr2)