It seems every editor and her brother these days wants to see standardized effect size statistics reported in journal articles.
For ANOVAs, two of the most popular are Eta-squared and partial Eta-squared. In one way ANOVAs, they come out the same, but in more complicated models, their values, and their meanings differ.
SPSS only reports partial Eta-squared, and in earlier versions of the software it was (unfortunately) labeled Eta-squared. More recent versions have fixed the label, but still don’t offer Eta-squared as an option.
Luckily Eta-squared is very simple to calculate yourself based on the sums of squares in your ANOVA table. I’ve written another blog post with all the formulas. You can