General Formatting
APA stands for what?
What is American Psychological Association?
What pieces of information are included in a standard APA parenthetical in-text citation?
What is the author's last name and year of publication?
How do you format a quote that contains material already in quotation marks?
What is using single quotation marks within the double quotation marks?
What is the order of references on an APA reference page?
What is alphabetical order?
This citation style is primarily used in the social sciences and emphasizes the publication date in its in-text citations.
What is APA?
What is the maximum number of words allowed in an APA title?
What is 12 words?
If there is no author for a source, what do you use in the in-text citation?
What is a shortened version of the title?
When quoting from a source with numbered paragraphs but no page numbers, how should you cite the location of the quote?
What is using the paragraph number and section name if available, e.g., (Author, Year, Method section, para. 3)?
For a journal article, what information should follow the article title in the reference?
What is the journal name, volume number (issue number), and page range?
APA uses this punctuation mark to separate elements in a reference list entry, while MLA uses periods.
What is a comma?
DOI stands for?
Digital Object Identifier
What follows an in-text citation of a work with three or more authors?
What is et al.?
When should you use block quote formatting for a direct quote?
What is when the quote is 40 words or longer?
When you have twenty or more authors, how many authors are listed on the reference page?
What is you list the first 19 authors’ names then include an ellipsis in place of the remaining author; ending by listing the final name without an ampersand?
Targaryen, D., Snow, J., Stark, A., Clegane, G., Lannister, C., Lannister, T., Stark, S., Stark, E., Drogo, K., Baratheon, J., Clegane, S., Greyjoy, T., Baelish, P., Lannister, J., Bolton, R., Martell, O., Stark, B., Tyrell, M., Stark, R.,…Varys, L. (2019). Game of Thrones rocks: A story of Game of Thrones’ rocks. Same Center Publishing.
In this citation style, the publication year immediately follows the author's name in a reference list entry.
Question: What is APA?
Name four things found on a correctly formatted APA title page.
What is the title, subtitle, student's name, university/institutional affiliation, course name/number, instructor's name, and date?
When you have twenty or more authors, how many authors are listed in the in-text citation?
What is the first one?
(Wilson et al., 2019)
How do you format a quote that contains an error in the original text?
What is inserting [sic] immediately after the error to indicate it was in the original?
What is the correct order of elements for a chapter in an edited collection?
Author of chapter. (Year of publication). Title of chapter. In Name(s) of editor(s) (Eds.). Title of book (edition (ed.), page numbers) Publisher.
APA uses this capitalization style for titles in reference lists, while MLA uses title case.
What is sentence case?
How many lines down from the top of the page should your information on the title page be?
What is 3-4 double-spaced lines from the top of the page?
If you have multiple works by the same author published in the same year, how do you cite them in-text?
What is by adding lowercase letters?
(Brown, 2019a) (Brown, 2019b)
What is an ellipsis (...) used for when directly quoting?
What is to indicate that you have omitted words from the original quote?
How do you cite a website with no author or year?
Title (n.d.). URL
ex. Ionization Energy and Electron Affinity (n.d.). http://chemed.chem.purdue.edu/genchem/topicreview/bp/ch7/ie_ea.html
This citation style recommends using "p." for a single page and "pp." for a page range when citing specific pages.
What is APA?