Tipsters: Here's one that has my Exp Psyc students, my TA and me stumped...
I have checked more than 5 websites on APA style and have The APA Manual, The
Psychology Students Writer's Manual and 5 research methods texts sitting on my desk
and still cannot I still cannot come up with a decisive answer regarding the content
of the Running head and Page header for an APA style manuscript. In the APA manual I
cannot find any discussion of the content of the Running head other than it should
be no longer than 50 characters (but, if it is in there I trust someone on this list
will know and point it out ;-). One source suggests using as many full words from
the full title, in order, as will fit within the 50 character limit; another says it
should be "topical" and tell the reader what the paper is about. In contrast, the
page header is supposed to be "the first two or three words from the title" (APA
manual p. 241). But, in the two-experiment example paper (pp. 269-270) they use the
third and fourth word as the page header -- perhaps these words match the first two
words of the running head for that paper but, since no title page is provided for
this example it is impossible to tell for sure. Other sources are not in agreement
here either; some say is should be the first 2-3 words of the FULL title and other
say the first 2-3 words of the running head.
HELP?
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+ _----_ Sherry L. Serdikoff, Ph.D. +
+ * * School of Psychology +
+ * O O * James Madison University +
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