

Gene-Environment Interactions Across Development: Exploring DRD2 Genotype and Prenatal Smoking Effects on Self- Regulation Working Memory Span Development: A Time- Based Resource- Sharing Model Account When hyphenated compounds capitalised in titles, both words should be capitalised (compared with just the first word in reference lists, for example) : Indentifying Two Potential Mechanisms for Changes in Alcohol Use Among College-Attending and Non-College-Attending Emerging Adults (b) numbers under 10 (e.g., three, five, seven)Ī Two-Dimensional Model of Intergroup Leadership: The Case of National Diversity

Numbers should be spelt out when they are: 24-Months-Old), dates (e.g., 13 June 2009), exact sums of money (e.g., $24.95), scores or points on a scale (e.g., a 5-Point Likert scale), and time (e.g., 1 hr 26 min) Whilst it would be worth referring to Chapter 4 of the Concise Rules of APA Style, 6th edition, for more information, we can say that: The following examples are based on the assumption that the rules for using numbers in-text are the same for titles. "If You Wrong Us, Shall We Not Revenge? " Social Identity Salience Moderates Support for Retaliation in Response to Collective ThreatĪPA includes quite a number of rules regarding the use of numbers. Preschoolers Infer Ownership From "Control of Permission " If quotations marks are used in a title, they should be double (i.e., "."), not single (i.e., '.'): Sensitivity of 24-Month-Olds to the Prior Inaccuracy of the Source: Possible Mechanismsĭo not capitalise conjunctions, whether coordinating conjunctions (e.g., and, but, or, for, nor) or subordinating conjunctions (e.g., because, as, since) :įollow-Up Outcome in Short-Term Group Therapy for Complicated GriefĪll adjectives, adverbs, nouns, pronouns, and verbs should be capitalized, in addition to all words that have four letters or more. Women and Women of Color in Leadership: Complexity, Identity, and Intersectionality Inferring the Outcome of an Ongoing Novel Action at 13 Monthsĭo not capitalise prepositions that have three or fewer letters (e.g., as, at, by, in, of, off, on, to, up) : What Makes a Good Team Player? Personality and Team Effectiveness
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What Makes a Good Team Player ? Personality and Team Effectivenessĭoes the Stepladder Technique Improve Group Decision Making ? A Series of Failed Replicationsĭo not capitalise articles (i.e., a, an, the) unless they are the first letter of a title or subtitle : Leadership: Why Gender and Culture MatterĬhange Over Time in Obedience: The Jury's Still Out, But It Might Be Decreasing If a subtitle follows a title that ends with a question mark, a colon should not follow the colon (i.e. A subtitle should be separated using a colon or em dash (i.e., - and not the shorter - en dash) and then a single space (i.e., Title: Subtitle OR Title - Subtitle).

The first letter of a title and subtitle should be capitalised. Each of these considerations is present below with associated examples: The main considerations when writing your dissertation title from a style perspective are: (a) capitalisation in titles and subtitles (b) quotation marks (c) numbers and (d) hyphenated compounds. As such, we have based this style guide on the requirements for titles set out by the APA style guide, 6th edition. To our knowledge, the APA style does not distinguish between titles for articles as a whole and dissertations.

American Psychological Association (APA) style, 6th edition
