How to report an F statistic in APA style? How do you report F statistics in APA format? I am working on PHD and am not certain that I am reporting the F statistics in the proper manner.

I have been reporting it as F (_,_). The second space I am unclear as to what number gets placed there.
The F ratio statistic has a numerator and denominator degrees of freedom. Thus, you report:

F (numerator_df, denominator_df) = F_value, p = ..., effect size = ...


The numerator degrees of freedom relates to the factor of interest; the denominator degrees of freedom corresponds to the degrees of freedom for the error variance.

The exact way that these degrees of freedom are calculated depends on the statistical test you are using. Standard textbooks will describe these approaches.
For example, in a standard one-way between subjects ANOVA with $k$ groups and $n$ participants per group, you would have $k-1$ numerator degrees of freedom and $kn-k$.

Generally, you will be able to read off these numbers from the output of your statistics package.

Example

Here is an example with k=3 groups and n=5 participants. See the df in the "group" row and the "error" row.

F(2, 12) = 24.667, p &lt; .001.