Cite It Right
In APA, this goes inside the parentheses after the author's last name.
What is the year of publication?
This phrase is written at the top of the reference page.
What is "References"?
This is the font size and style required by the 7th edition of American Psychological Association.
What is 12-pt Times New Roman?
This is the number of words needed for a block quote.
What is 40 words?
When there is no author listed, you begin the reference entry with this.
What is the title of the work?
When citing a work by two authors in-text, this symbol is used between the names.
What is an ampersand?
In APA, the references are ordered in this way.
What is alphabetically by the first author's last name?
APA requires this amount of spacing throughout the entirety of one's paper.
What is double spaced?
A quote must always be followed by these three elements in the in-text citation.
What are the author, year, and page number?
If the publication has no date, you use this abbreviation.
What is (n.d.)?
This phrase means "and others" and refers to multiple authors of a text
What is "et al." ?
This goes after an author's last name in the references list.
What is the author's first initial?
This is where the title of the paper is located on the title page
What is 3 to 4 lines from the top of the page?
When omitting part of a quotation, you replace the missing words with this.
What are ellipses (...) ?
When citing a secondary source (an author quoted in another author's work) you use this phrase.
What is "as cited in"?
In APA, this is still required even if an idea is paraphrased.
What is a citation?
In the references list, journal articles must include this unique identifier when available?
Hint: link
What is the DOI?
What is the title? (in bold)
This is what you should do rather than using direct quotes to fill your word count.
When two authors have the same last name, you must include this in the in-text citation to avoid confusion.
What is their first initial?
When you cite a source with no author but with an organization, you do this in the in-text citation.
What is use the organization's full name?
This is the abbrevation used for the specific issue of a journal
What is "no. "?
APA encourages the use of this voice when writing.
What is the active voice? (Will also accept 3rd person)
You are not required to cite this type of information in the body of your paper.
What are "personal communications"? (personal interviews, texts, unrecorded classroom lectures, live speeches, and so on)
When citing materials like class lecture slides on Canvas or YouTube videos, you must include this information in the reference.
What is the format of the content?
Ex: [PowerPoint slides]