Writing Style (psychbull-writing-style)

Psychological Bulletin prose must do something a primary paper's does not: integrate and evaluate an entire literature while meeting APA 7th-edition style and the matching reporting standard — MARS for meta-analyses, PRISMA for systematic reviews, JARS for quantitative/mixed work. This skill guides structure and prose; the numbers come from the analysis skills.

When to trigger

• Drafting or restructuring the manuscript
• Writing the ≤ 250-word abstract
• Making sure the methods section satisfies MARS/PRISMA item-by-item
• Tightening an over-long or descriptive review into an evaluative argument

Structure for a synthesis