Table markers for apa 6 class

Question

I am compiling a document using the apa6 class. As expected in the manuscript mode, tables and figures are placed at the end of the document. However, unlike the normal endfloat behavior, no markers are placed in the main text.

I see from the apa6 class, that it calls endfloat with the nomarker option. So two questions:

Is this standard for apa6 to not have table references?
How can I tell apa6 to place these references?

Thank you

Here is a minimal working example

documentclass[man]{apa6} % man for manuscript format, jou for journal format, doc for standard LaTeX document format
usepackage[natbibapa]{apacite} % Divine intervention help you if you need to use a different citation package.
usepackage[american]{babel}
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage{csquotes}

usepackage{url}   % this allows us to cite URLs in the text
usepackage{graphicx}   % allows for graphic to float when doing jou or doc style
usepackage{verbatim}   % allows us to use begin{comment} environment
usepackage{caption}
%usepackage{lscape}
usepackage{pdflscape}

title{Tables and apa6}
author{Author Name}

begin{document}

maketitle

section{Results}

section{General Discussion}

There should be a marker here . 
begin{table}
begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|}
  hline
  % after : hline or cline{col1-col2} cline{col3-col4} ...
 & 5 &  
   & 5 &  
   & 5 &  
  hline
end{tabular}
end{table}
bibliographystyle{apacite}
bibliography{references}

end{document}

andresjmb · Answer

I had the exact same question and found that using the class option floatsintext in documentclass solves the problem.

Instead of documentclass[man]{apa6} write it as documentclass[man, floatsintext]{apa6}

It should look something like this:

documentclass[man, floatsintext]{apa6} % man for manuscript format, jou for journal format, doc for standard LaTeX document format
usepackage[natbibapa]{apacite} % Divine intervention help you if you need to use a different citation package.
usepackage[american]{babel}
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage{csquotes}

usepackage{url}   % this allows us to cite URLs in the text
usepackage{graphicx}   % allows for graphic to float when doing jou or doc style
usepackage{verbatim}   % allows us to use begin{comment} environment
usepackage{caption}
%usepackage{lscape}
usepackage{pdflscape}

title{Tables and apa6}
author{Author Name}

begin{document}

maketitle

section{Results}

section{General Discussion}

There should be a marker here . 
begin{table}
begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|}
  hline
  % after : hline or cline{col1-col2} cline{col3-col4} ...
 & 5 &  
   & 5 &  
   & 5 &  
  hline
end{tabular}
end{table}
bibliographystyle{apacite}
bibliography{references}

end{document}

Johannes Titz · Answer

Markers like "Figure x about here" are not required by APA. So this is the expected behavior. For the 5th edition in a guide this is specifically mentioned: "There’s no need to say "Insert Table or Figure about here"." (Cash, 2009, p. 2)

And I assume this has not changed for APA 6th edition (at least I cannot find anything in the book that is related to it) and is probably still valid for APA 7th edition.

If you still want it, just create your own apa6.cls file (removing the nomarkers option) and put it in your working directory.

Cash, T. F. (2009). Caveats in the proficient preparation of an APA-style research manuscript for publication. Body Image, 6(1), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2008.10.003

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