I was asked by reviewers to present the findings from my two-way ANOVAs in tables rather than within the text: they said that putting the numbers in brackets within the text made it too difficult to read. I couldn't find an example of a table for two-way ANOVA so used the example for ANOVA from the APA handbook and adapted it to include the interactions as well as the main effects. The resulting table, which included all 6 scale variables I was using, was long and complicated (see attached example with the titles of variables removed).
In the final edit before acceptance, I have been asked to reformat this table. They have asked me to look at examples but I am struggling to find any. Every example I find of a two-way ANOVA has the findings reported in the text rather than in a table. This is also the case in the books I have (e.g. Field).
Can anyone provide me with an example or with advice on how to set up such a table in APA style?
Thank you!
you can use first table for desriptive statistics (all means and astandart deviations for your independent variables, ıf interaction exist as in your case also give for their means and standart deviations in table, with two decimal places). This table wiil be Table 1. Second table will have to be include mean sum of squares, degrees of freedom , f value, p value (with three decimals, ıf result highly signigicant you can use p< .001) and effect size See annex that is all.
your presented information not enough to replicate for your results. Thus, reviewer recommended to you give more information.
Thanks, but I still don't see an example with 2-way ANOVA, which produces a lot more numbers...
you can use first table for desriptive statistics (all means and astandart deviations for your independent variables, ıf interaction exist as in your case also give for their means and standart deviations in table, with two decimal places). This table wiil be Table 1. Second table will have to be include mean sum of squares, degrees of freedom , f value, p value (with three decimals, ıf result highly signigicant you can use p< .001) and effect size See annex that is all.
your presented information not enough to replicate for your results. Thus, reviewer recommended to you give more information.
Hi Tessa,
The essence of results reporting is to present for the readers the details of your findings. In this regard, I can tell you that having a table is not compulsory (you can argue this with the reviewers). However, in reporting the results of Two-way ANOVA or mixed within-between groups ANOVA (Split Plot ANOVA), it is a good practice to complement your result presentation with profile plots. For more details, please check pages 265 to 273 of SPSS Survival Manual by Julie Pallant.
I hope this helps.
Auwal
Dear Tessa,
I, too, agree with Ertugrul and Jos.
Also, please check on the tables referring to Split Plot ANOVAs in a recent publication by Jansen et al. (2016) in PLoS ONE 11(7): e0158511.
Good luck with the reviewers,
Klaus
Thanks everyone for your responses and advice. I'll let you know what I decide!
Hi Tessa, did you paper get published? I'm also looking for an example of how to best present 13 2x3 ANOVAs and I think seeing the result from this would be helpful for me
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