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APA Style

APA stands for American Psychological Association, APA

Style is a set of rules that authors must use when submitting papers for publications in APA journals. .

Uses of APA STYLE

• Research Publications

• Provide readers with cues they can use to follow your ideas more efficiently and to locate information of interest to them

• Allow readers to focus more on your ideas by not distracting them with unfamiliar formatting

Elements of APA styles

• Impersonal Style

• Verb, Tenses

• Biased Language

• Citation

Guidelines for Typing

• 27 lines per page

• Text should have a straight left hand margin

• Font Size should be 12

• Indent the first line of each paragraphs 5 to 7 spaces

Manuscript Pages

• Title Page

• Abstract

• Text

• References

TITLE PAGE

The title of the page, the author name(s) & other identifing

information.

AN APA-STYLE TITLE PAGE

• Page Header & • Page Number

• Max. 50 characters

• Centre Title

• Author Names &

• Affiliations

Neuropsychological impairment 1

IMPAIRMENT IN SOCCER ATHLETES(Running Head)

Neuropsychological impairment in soccer athletes

Danielle Symons DownsUniversity of Florida

David AbwenderState University of New York College at

Brockport

ABSTRACT

The abstract is a brief summary of the research study. The abstract focues

on what was done and what was found in the study.

AN APA-STYLE ABSTRACT Begin a new page

Center

No Indent Statement of problem

Describe Participants

Describe Method & Results

Conclusion Or Implications

Neuropsychological impairment 2

Abstract

Soccer reportedly places participants at risk for Neuropsychological impairment.Althogh it is

unknown that the risk is primarily with conclusion, sub conclusive blows from heading the ball or

some combination thereof. Participants were 32 soccer players (26 college

and 6 professional) and 29 swimmers.

The older soccer athletes performed poorly on measure of conceptual thinking, reaction time and

concentration. The results provide additional evidence that participation in soccer may be associated with poorer neuropsychological

performance, although the observed pattern of findings does not specifically implicate heading as

the cause.

TEXT

• TEXT:“It is the body of research report, containing four

sections,– Introduction

– Method

– Results

– Discussion.

“MEAN”

• Introduction

Mean is the central value of an arranged numerical data. It is a very useful tool in predicting the results from numerical data

• Method

The method is defined as under:

The Method for calculating the mean of any given data is, just add all the values and divide their sum

by the sum of total numbers or entries representing digits.

April 30

May 35

June ?

July 35

August 30

Lets take an example that we are supposed to find the approximate temperature for the month of JUNE, with the help of given temperatures of the following months?

•Results The answer is 36

• Discussion

The example can help us in solving various problems of our life relating with the numerical facts