Electronic Sources
Potpourri
Punctuation & Style
In-Text Citations
Huh????
100
If possible, cite an electronic document the same as any other document by using this style.
What is author-date? Example: Research by Wegener and Petty (1994) supports...
100
In the Reference List, all lines after the first line of each entry in your list should be indented this much from the left margin.
What is one-half inch?
100
This should be included at the top of every page.
What is a page header/running head?
100
In the following passage, this is missing in the parentheses at the end of the sentence: According to Jones (1998), "Students often had difficulty using APA style, especially when it was their first time" ( ).
What is the page number?
100
If no person is named as an author on a government report, use one of these as author.
What is government agency, department, or government branch?
200
This is missing from the following Reference List item: Parker-Pope, T. (2008, May 6). Psychiatry handbook linked to drug industry. The New York Times. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/psychiatry-handbook
What is 'Retrieved from'?
200
When citing (in-text) authors with the same last name, use this with the last names to prevent confusion.
What are first initials? Example: (E. Johnson, 2001; L. Johnson, 1998)
200
What level of heading is left-aligned, boldface, uppercase and lowercase words
What is 2nd level?
200
In subsequent citations of a multi-author work, only use the first author's last name followed by this in the parentheses.
What is "et al."?
200
These are the 4 major sections of your paper.
What is Title Page, Abstract, Main Body, and References?
300
If no author is given, use this in the parentheses of your in-text citation.
What is the first word or two of the title?
300
Never ever ever - as long as you live - use this as a source.
What is Wikipedia?
300
Do not use theses in abbreviations of all capital letters, unless it is a proper name.
What are periods and spaces?
300
In the following indirect citation, this is missing before the author's (Smith) name: Johnson argued that...( Smith, 2003, p. 102).
What is 'as cited in'?
300
Place direct quotations that are [how many] words, or longer, in a free-standing block of typewritten lines, and omit quotation marks.
What is 40?
400
In the following Reference List item, this is missing from the listing: Brownlie, D. (2007). Toward effective poster presentations: An annotated bibliography. European Journal of Marketing, 41, 1245-1283.
What is DOI?
400
You should write your paper in this voice.
What is active voice?
400
In et al., et [should/should not] be followed by a period.
What is should not?
400
In general, APA does not use footnotes, except in this circumstance.
What is to provide additional content that supplements the text? (e.g., to briefly acknowledge a tangential idea that is nevertheless important to the discussion or to note copyright permission for reprinting a lengthy quote)
400
For interviews, letters, emails, and other person-to-person communication, cite the communicator's name, the date of the communication, and this.
What is 'personal communication?' Example: K. M. Ingraham (personal communication, October 5, 2013) stated that she found her career as an educational psychologist intellectually stimulating as well as emotionally fulfilling. Example: Harvey Kail, interview by Laurie A. Pinkert, March 15, 2009, interview 45B, transcript.
500
When direct quoting a website, you can include these in the in-text citation to help the reader locate the passage on the site.
What are headings or paragraph numbers?
500
A Reference List listing for a TED talk/video would follow this format.
What is who, when what, where? Example:Palmer, A. (2013, February). Amanda Palmer: The art of asking [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/amanda_palmer_the_art_of_asking
500
To present a quotation after a complete sentence (e.g., those ending in thus or as follows), put a this punctuation mark after the introductory sentence and before the quotation marks.
What is a colon? Example:Although some people believe tasks are easier for individuals with high self-control, the research has indicated as follows: “Participants actually working on the task found it equally...
500
This is the subsequent in-text citation for this item: (U.S Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences [IES], 2008)
What is (IES, 2008)?
500
In titles, all words of [how many] or more letters are capitalized.
What is 4?
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