On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Serdikoff, Sherry L. wrote:
> Tipsters: Here's one that has my Exp Psyc students, my TA and me stumped...
>
...snip....
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.
In my copy of the APA manual, the sampe paper does have the first
2 words (individual differences) of the full title as the short title
For the 2-study case I think they took the 2nd and 3rd substantive
words--omitting the first substantive and nonsubstantive words (Effect of)
since the logic is that should the manuscript pages become disorganized,
as when a Klutz walks by and the entire stack of manuscripts is tossed
to the floor unintentionally, then the manuscripts can be reassembled.
It would be impossible to do if too may of them had "effects of" as the
short title :-)
I'm not sure where I got the idea that it's the first 2-3 substantive
words, as opposed to the exact first 2-3 words except it makes
good sense. I just checked the APA manual so maybe I had made
a personal interpretation that works.
annette
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