Hi Stefan,

APA has specific guidelines for whether to include the leading zero (the zero before the decimal point), depending on what statistics you are reporting. You can read these guidelines here. The basic rule is that you shouldn’t include the zero if the statistic you’re reporting can never be greater than 1.

0.05 or .05?
0.09 or .09?

Thanks in advance!

Hi Mario,

This is covered in section 7.6 of the manual, “Placement of tables and figures.” Hope that helps!

Where in the APA 7th Edition did you find the placement of figures after the reference list? I couldn’t find it and wanted to be certain prior to submitting my work.

Thank you.

Thanks for your kind comment!

Good question! It seems logical that this would be an option for figures as well as tables, but it’s actually not a possibility that APA mentions or gives any examples of; they only state that you can do this with tables, not with figures. So if you want to strictly follow APA guidelines, I would suggest not presenting figures in this way.

If you do decide to present a figure in landscape orientation, I suggest using landscape orientation for the figure number, title, and note(s) as well, so that all the text on the page is oriented the same way.

Hi Ahmet,

APA states that single spacing, 1.5 spacing, or double spacing are all valid options within a table. Just be consistent in which one you use.

In terms of capitalization, they state that the title above the table should be written in title case (all important words capitalized), whereas text inside the table should be in sentence case (only the first word of each sentence/phrase capitalized).