APA articles frequently include the following elements:
- Title
- Abstract
- Introduction [without a header; states hypothesis]
- Literature Review
- Materials and Methods [Methodology]
- Results
- Introduce data
- Participants
- Missing data
- Adverse events
- Summarize data
- Descriptive statistics
- Inferential statistics
- Other considerations & results
- Confidence intervals & effect sizes
- Subgroup or exploratory analyses
- Presenting data with text, tables, or figures
- Omit:
- Raw data
- Interpretation
- Explanations of statistical tests
- Analysis or Discussion
- References