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Journal article reporting standards for quantitative research in psychology: The APA Publications and Communications Board task force report.

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Appelbaum, M; Cooper, H; Kline, RB; Mayo-Wilson, E; Nezu, AM; Rao, SM
Published in: The American psychologist
January 2018

Following a review of extant reporting standards for scientific publication, and reviewing 10 years of experience since publication of the first set of reporting standards by the American Psychological Association (APA; APA Publications and Communications Board Working Group on Journal Article Reporting Standards, 2008), the APA Working Group on Quantitative Research Reporting Standards recommended some modifications to the original standards. Examples of modifications include division of hypotheses, analyses, and conclusions into 3 groupings (primary, secondary, and exploratory) and some changes to the section on meta-analysis. Several new modules are included that report standards for observational studies, clinical trials, longitudinal studies, replication studies, and N-of-1 studies. In addition, standards for analytic methods with unique characteristics and output (structural equation modeling and Bayesian analysis) are included. These proposals were accepted by the Publications and Communications Board of APA and supersede the standards included in the 6th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA, 2010). (PsycINFO Database Record

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The American psychologist

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EISSN

1935-990X

ISSN

0003-066X

Publication Date

January 2018

Volume

73

Issue

1

Start / End Page

3 / 25

Related Subject Headings

  • Societies, Scientific
  • Social Psychology
  • Research Design
  • Psychology
  • Periodicals as Topic
  • Peer Review, Research
  • Humans
  • 52 Psychology
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology
 

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Appelbaum, M., Cooper, H., Kline, R. B., Mayo-Wilson, E., Nezu, A. M., & Rao, S. M. (2018). Journal article reporting standards for quantitative research in psychology: The APA Publications and Communications Board task force report. The American Psychologist, 73(1), 3–25. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000191
Appelbaum, Mark, Harris Cooper, Rex B. Kline, Evan Mayo-Wilson, Arthur M. Nezu, and Stephen M. Rao. “Journal article reporting standards for quantitative research in psychology: The APA Publications and Communications Board task force report.The American Psychologist 73, no. 1 (January 2018): 3–25. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000191.
Appelbaum M, Cooper H, Kline RB, Mayo-Wilson E, Nezu AM, Rao SM. Journal article reporting standards for quantitative research in psychology: The APA Publications and Communications Board task force report. The American psychologist. 2018 Jan;73(1):3–25.
Appelbaum, Mark, et al. “Journal article reporting standards for quantitative research in psychology: The APA Publications and Communications Board task force report.The American Psychologist, vol. 73, no. 1, Jan. 2018, pp. 3–25. Epmc, doi:10.1037/amp0000191.
Appelbaum M, Cooper H, Kline RB, Mayo-Wilson E, Nezu AM, Rao SM. Journal article reporting standards for quantitative research in psychology: The APA Publications and Communications Board task force report. The American psychologist. 2018 Jan;73(1):3–25.

Published In

The American psychologist

DOI

EISSN

1935-990X

ISSN

0003-066X

Publication Date

January 2018

Volume

73

Issue

1

Start / End Page

3 / 25

Related Subject Headings

  • Societies, Scientific
  • Social Psychology
  • Research Design
  • Psychology
  • Periodicals as Topic
  • Peer Review, Research
  • Humans
  • 52 Psychology
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology