Add notes under the table

Question

I'm using the latex package apa6e because the apa package isn't using APA style version 6 yet.

Now I'm trying to add a table with notes right underneath it, like in this table for instance:

Since the \caption{} is used as a title above the table, I have to add an extra row for the notes that goes over the whole table width. The problem is that the notes won't fit into one line so I need multi-line cell. How can I accomplish that? Or am I doing it totally wrong and there is a much easier way? I guess footnotes don't work here.

\documentclass{apa6e}

\begin{document}
\shorttitle{}
\begin{table}
\caption{title}
\begin{tabular}{cc}
foo & bar\\
\hline
\multicolumn{2}{l}{Notes. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Cras lacus orci, porttitor et posuere sit amet, tempor non justo. Ut quis aliquet turpis. Ut dictum nulla eget purus elementum a lacinia libero varius. Donec malesuada nulla ut odio rhoncus convallis. Aenean faucibus sollicitudin sapien, a vestibulum ante rhoncus sit amet. In vitae mi justo. In arcu metus, porta et lacinia ut, ultricies sed eros.}
\end{tabular}

\end{table}
\end{document}

Answer 1

As a demonstration, here is an implementation using threeparttable:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs,caption}
\usepackage[flushleft]{threeparttable}
\begin{document}

\begin{table}
  \begin{threeparttable}
    \caption{Sample ANOVA table}
     \begin{tabular}{lllll}
        \toprule
        Stubhead & \( df \) & \( f \) & \( \eta \) & \( p \) \\
        \midrule
                 &     \multicolumn{4}{c}{Spanning text}     \\
        Row 1    & 1        & 0.67    & 0.55       & 0.41    \\
        Row 2    & 2        & 0.02    & 0.01       & 0.39    \\
        Row 3    & 3        & 0.15    & 0.33       & 0.34    \\
        Row 4    & 4        & 1.00    & 0.76       & 0.54    \\
        \bottomrule
     \end{tabular}
    \begin{tablenotes}
      \small
      \item This is where authors provide additional information about
      the data, including whatever notes are needed.
    \end{tablenotes}
  \end{threeparttable}
\end{table}

\end{document}

Answer 2

You can use {\raggedright insert notes here \par} after \end{tabular} but before \end{table}:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}

\begin{table}
     \centering
    \caption{Sample ANOVA table}
     \begin{tabular}{lllll}
        \hline \hline 
        Stubhead & \( df \) & \( f \) & \( \eta \) & \( p \) \\
        \hline 
                 &     \multicolumn{4}{c}{Spanning text}     \\
        Row 1    & 1        & 0.67    & 0.55       & 0.41    \\
        Row 2    & 2        & 0.02    & 0.01       & 0.39    \\
        Row 3    & 3        & 0.15    & 0.33       & 0.34    \\
        Row 4    & 4        & 1.00    & 0.76       & 0.54    \\
        \hline 
     \end{tabular}
     \vspace{1ex}

     {\raggedright This is where authors provide additional information about the data, including whatever notes are needed. \par}
\end{table}

\end{document}

However, notice that the notes will span the whole page, and will not be limited to the width of the table.

Answer 3

You could just add a \multicolumn{<ncols>}{|p{<width>}|} for the last row.