Reporting standards for research in psychology: why do we need them? What might they be? -- Setting the stage: title page, abstract, and introduction -- Detailing what you did: the method section -- Describing your research design: studies with and without experimental manipulations -- Summarizing your data and statistical analyses: the results section -- Reporting other design features: longitudinal studies, replication studies, studies with one subject, and clinical trials -- Interpreting your results: the discussion section -- Reporting research syntheses and meta-analyses -- How the journal article reporting standards and the meta-analysis reporting standards came to be and can be used in the future
Summary
"This updated book provides practical guidance for implementing the American Psychological Association's Journal Article Reporting Standards for Quantitative Research (JARS-Quant) and Meta-Analysis Reporting Standards (MARS). Author Harris Cooper uses examples from APA journals to illustrate how these standards can be applied to one's own writing while conforming with the APA Style guidelines in the Publication Manual, Seventh Edition. New and expanded chapters discuss how to report different statistical analyses and various types of research designs-including replication studies and clinical trials"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-207) and index
