Professional Documents
Culture Documents
(Chapter 5, APA
Manaual)
By
Taleeha Tariq
Shaista Zia
Tahira Aziz
Table Headings
Like a table title, a heading should be brief
and should not be many more characters in
length than the widest entry.
Each column of a table must have a
heading, including the stub column or stub,
which is the leftmost column of the table
You may use standard abbreviations and
symbols for nontechnical terms (e.g., no.
for number, % for percent) and for statistics
Table Body
confidence Intervals in
Tables
Table Notes
Tables may have three kinds of notes placed
below the body of the table: general notes,
specific notes, and probability notes.
general note qualifies, explains, or provides
information relating to the table as a whole
and ends with an explanation of any
abbreviations, symbols, and the like.
Ruling of Tables
Continued.
Charts generally display nonquantitative
information such as the flow of subjects through
a process, for example, flow charts. Maps
generally display spatial information.
Drawings show information pictorially.
Photographs contain direct visual
representations of information.