Cite it Right ✏️
This information — the author’s last name and the year — is always included in an APA in-text citation.
What is the author and date?
References in your list should be arranged in this order.
What is alphabetical order by the first author’s last name?
This word replaces “and” when listing multiple authors inside parentheses.
What is an ampersand (&)?
This abbreviation is used when no publication date is available.
What is “n.d.”?
What does “APA” stand for?
What is American Psychological Association?
You should include this piece of information in parentheses when using a direct quote.
What is the page number?
This type of indentation is required for all entries in your reference list.
What is a hanging indent?
This part of a book title should be italicized in your reference list.
What is the full title of the book?
What does APA 7 call links like URLs or DOIs in the reference list?
What is live hyperlinks?
Spot the error: (Smith, John, 2020).
What is no first name — use initial only?
How many authors before using et al. in APA 7?
What is 3 or more authors?
This is the correct line spacing for your reference list.
What is double spacing?
This information — the chapter title, page range, and editor — must be included when citing this type of source.
What is a chapter in an edited book?
You only include a retrieval date for online sources that do this.
What is change over time?
True/False: Hyperlinks should be active, blue, and underlined.
What is True?
When citing a source that you found inside another source, you use this phrase to show it’s indirect.
What is “as cited in”?
Name the four essential elements for every reference.
What is Author, year, title, and source?
In APA, how are author names formatted when the author is also the publisher?
What is omit the publisher name to avoid repetition?
The proper format for a webpage citation includes these four parts: author, date, title, and this final element.
What is the website name and URL?
Spot the formatting error: Psychology Today Magazine.
What is Magazine titles are not italicized?
What does an in-text citation connect to in your paper?
What is the reference list?
A DOI is a digital object identifier and should be placed in this position of the citation.
What is at the end of the reference?
If an organization is listed as the author, this is how you write it the first time when it has a long name.
What is the full name followed by its abbreviation in brackets? (e.g., Ministry of Education [MOE])
When citing an online source with no title, what substitutes as the title?
What is a description in square brackets?
The original APA style guidelines were developed for what purpose?
What is to help researchers write clearly & consistently?