What's in a Name
What is a "References" page?
This appears at the end of a research paper formatted in APA
What is the cover page?
Your identifying information, including your name, title of your paper, and your university should appear here
What information should be included in the standard citation for a quote?
the author name(s), a publication date, and a page number with the lowercase letter “p” and a period).
How should entries be listed?
Alphabetical order
What does APA stand for?
American Psycholgical Association
Margins should measure this amount
1 inch
How do you cite a source with 2 authors?
&
True or False:
The reference page should NOT be double spaced?
False!
What is Paraphrasing?
Writing the original text in your own words and ALSO changing the structure
This information should appear 3rd in the title page’s centered information
Your university affiliation
The Latin phrase “et al,” can be used in an in-text citation for what number of authors
3 or more
You should do this ________ for authors’ first name on the bibliography.
Only initial
What is “Running head”?
This phrase appears before the shortened version of your title within the header on every page of a professional paper in APA
If I wanted to quote a 42-word paragraph from a source, how should it be formatted?
(block quote, entire paragraph indented ½ inch from margin, parenthetical citation after last
period mark.)
What should the in-text citation after a quote include if you have chosen to give the
author name in a signal phrase?
It should only include “p” followed by a period and the page number, because the year of publication will appear in parentheses after the name is mentioned in a signal phrase. The information doesn’t have to be repeated)
These type of sources should not be included on the bibliography, even though they are cited in the paper
Personal communications
Name 2 fields that may use APA?
Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology
What length of quotes must be put in block format?
40 or more
Since APA style calls for authors to be specific about identifying the location of directquotations and paraphrases, you should include this when you don’t have a page number from a Web page or electronic resource
para number
These months should be written in full within bibliographic citations?
All of them!