Reporting quantitative research in psychology: how to meet APA style journal article reporting standards

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.