Paul: You are correct in pointing out that, for final forms of papers (e.g., student papers, theses) it makes more sense for the Tables and Figures to appear in the body of the manuscript (after the page on which they are mentioned) rather than appended. The question remains, does anyone know how to format this easily in MS Word? -Max
Max Gwynn, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Academic Advisor Dept. of Psychology Wilfrid Laurier University (519) 884-0710 ext 3854 [email protected] >>> Paul C Bernhardt <[email protected]> 10/30/2012 1:15 PM >>> Putting tables and figures in an appendix (with 'insert table 1 about here' statement within the manuscript) is the way they are mandated for sending a manuscript in for journal review/publication. However, in the 5th edition there was an entire chapter devoted to adapting the APA style to theses, dissertations and student papers. Basically, it relaxed the rules of putting materials at the end of the paper because that is for the convenience of preparing a paper for typesetting. Student papers, being in final form, needed to be more readable, therefore should have figures and tables within the body of the text. There were also allowances for page numbering variances and deviations from double-spacing. That chapter has been completely removed from the 6th edition from what I can tell. But, there is a great statement in the 6th edition that lets us instructors do pretty much what we want, if you want to interpret it that way. On page 5 is a quote from the 4th edition for inclusion the 6th edition, "The Publication Manual presents explicit style requirements but acknowledge that alternatives are sometimes necessary; authors should balance the rules of the Publication Manual with good judgement." The context is to indicate that the Publication Manual is to be thought of as more descriptive than prescriptive. But, I take from it that I can specify variations for my students to 'balance the rules* with good judgement.' That is, I think it is kinda silly to have those appendices when for readability and rationality, it is better to have tables and figures within the body of the text close to where it is referred, because it is a final document. Paul On Oct 30, 2012, at 10:06 AM, Helweg-Larsen, Marie wrote: Maxwell wrote: *Another problem involves how to get Word to keep an entire page together, such as when you have a page with a table and table caption which should follow the page on which the table is mentioned in text, no matter how many lines follow that mention.* Wait * I don*t understand. Tables and figures go at the end of the manuscript (see pages 52-53 in the APA manual). Maybe that is not what you meant. Marie Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Associate Professor l Department of Psychology Kaufman 168 l Dickinson College Phone 717.245.1562 l Fax 717.245.1971 Office hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 10:30-11:30 http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=21388 or send a blank email to leave-21388-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
