Title Page
General Guidelines
Heading
In-text Citations
References
100
The information that comes immediately below the title of the paper
What are the authors' names?
100
The spacing requirement throughout your paper
What is double-spaced?
100
This level of heading is centered, bolded, with Title Case
What is a first-level heading?
100
The technical term for "&"
What is ampersand?
100
The order in which references should appear
What is alphabetical (by the first author's surname)?
200
The vertical position in which the title, authors, and institutional affiliation should appear on the title page
What is the upper half (or quadrant) of the title page?
200
The type of font you should use
What is Times New Roman (or any other SERIF font)?
200
This level heading is flush left, bolded, and in Title Case
What is a second-level heading?
200
The Latin abbreviation that means "and others"
What is "et al."?
200
What the abbreviation "DOI" stands for
What is "digital object identifier"?
300
Information appearing in the top left corner of the title page
What is the running head?
300
The margins on each side of each page
What is 1 inch?
300
The level of heading for your Abstract and References sections
What is Title heading?
300
The minimum number of authors required to ALWAYS use the et al. construction even if it is the first time you are citing the source in your paper
What is 6?
300
In a citation for a journal article, the information that is italicized
What are the journal name and volume number?
400
The maximum number of characters in the running head
What is 50?
400
The only section of your paper with no indents for paragraphs
What is the Abstract?
400
The level of heading for the Participants, Materials, and Procedure subsections
What is a second-level heading?
400
The punctuation mark used to separate multiple sources within a single citation
What is a semicolon?
400
The reason you would have to include an issue number in a reference for a journal article
What is when the pagination of each issue is not cumulative (i.e., each issue starts at page 1)?
500
The maximum number of words in your title
What is 12?
500
The term referring to the special form of indentation found in the References section
What is a hanging indent?
500
The first level of heading that ends with a period ("higher" levels also end with a period)
What is a third-level heading?
500
The order in which the following multiple sources should be ordered in a single in-text citation: 1) Gaudio & Stair, 2013 2) Mendoza, Green, & Roarke, 2012 3) Carey & Berlepsch, 2011 4) Perkins, Martin, & Augusto, 2012 Use the numbers in your response (e.g., What is: 1, 2... etc.)
What is 3, 1, 2, 4?
500
The order in which all components of a reference for a journal article must appear (components include: doi, title of journal, title of article, year of publication, authors, page range, volume number)
What is: author(s), year, title of article, title of journal, volume number, (issue optional), page range, doi?
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