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APA Rules: Group 1
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Random APA Stuff
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What is the subtitle should be in sentence case and italicized?
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I want to use an in-text citation, but the source has five authors.
What is use et al. after the first author's last name and first initial?
(Valadez et al., 2025).
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This is the line spacing requirement for the body of the paper.
What is double-spaced?
100
This is the line spacing requirement for the reference page.
What is double-spaced?
100
This is what the APA acronym stands for.
American Psychological Association
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This citation has two errors.
Azevedo, P. C. R., & Valadez, C. B. (2025). "If Ferris Bueller had a bot." Impacting Education Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 10(1), 80–89. https://doi.org/10.5195/ie.2025.471
What is...?
- There should not be quotation marks around the article title.
- The volume number should be in italics.
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I want to use an in-text citation, but multiple of my sources have an identical author (or authors) and publication year.
What is use a lowercase letter after the date? (Azevedo & Valadez, 2025a)
(Azevedo & Valadez, 2025b)
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These are the margins set for all APA Style 7 papers.
What is 1 inch on all sides?
200
This is the indentation format for the reference page.
What is hanging indents?
200
This is the maximum length of an abstract.
What is 250 words?
300
This sentence has three errors.
AI-powered technology has the potential to impact learners and educators by augmenting students’ capacity to learn (Baidoo-Anu and Ansah, 2023; Dempere, Modugu, Hesham, and Ramasamy, 2023) and even provide accommodations for students with disabilities (Ballenger, 2022, p. 7).
What is...?
- Use & in non-narrative in-text citations. (Baidoo-Anu & Ansah, 2023)
- More than two authors, use et al. (Dempere et al., 2023)
- Because there is no quote there is no page number. (Ballenger, 2022).
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I want to use an in-text citation for a source, but there is no author listed.
What is use the title of the work and put it into quotation marks or italics as appropriate?
300
This is included in a reference if there is no date available on a website.
What is (n.d.)?
300
If you are using a level three heading (H3), this is the style and format it must be in.
What are left-aligned, bolded, italicized, and formatted in title case?
300
This is the maximum number of words a direct quote can be before it should be put into block quote format.
What is 40 words?
400
This reference list has four errors.
Berry, P. M., Gervasio, M., Peintner, B., & Yorke-Smith, N. (2011). PTIME: Personalized assistance for calendaring. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2(4), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1145/1989734.1989744
Chan, C. K. Y. (2023) A comprehensive AI policy education framework for university teaching and learning. International journal of educational technology in higher education, 20, Article 38. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-023-00408-3
Canhoto, A. I., & Clear, F. (2020). Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning as Business Tools: A Framework for Diagnosing Value Destruction Potential. Business Horizons, 63(2), 183–193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2019.11.003
What is...?
- Not in alphabetical order
- Missing period after (2023).
- The journal title is in sentence case, not title case, for the Chan article.
- Canhoto & Clear article is in title case, not sentence case.
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I want to use quote from an electronic source, but it doesn't have page numbers.
What is use "para. #" to reference the paragraph number? (Valadez, 2005, para. 6).
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Page numbering starts on this page and is located in this spot on the page.
Where is the title page and top flush right?
400
These are the required elements of a title page for a student paper.
What are the page number, title, author, affiliation, course, instructor, and due date?
400
This is the meaning of the acronym "DOI."
What is Digital Object Identifier?
500
This passage has five errors.
The critical review of the discourse about AI in HEIs by M. Bearman, J. Ryan, and R. Ajjawi (2023) demonstrated that the leading higher education journals lacked in-depth discussion. What they found was that discussion about AIED was either utopian or dystopian, and even more prevalent was the debate about “human versus machine” (Bearman et al., 2023, page 380). In addition, there were concerns about academic integrity (Yau & Chan, 2023; Wood, 2023) and, in particular, the “boundaries between plagiarism and inspiration and appropriate situations for seeking help from AI” (Chan, 2023.)
What is...?
- Full list of authors in first sentence should not be included. It should be Bearman et al. (2023)
- At the end of the second sentence, the page number should be preceded by p., not page.
- In the third sentences, the works are not listed in alphabetical order by the first author's last name.
- In the last sentence, the period is inside the parenthesis and should be outside of it.
- In the last sentence, the page number is missing after a quote.
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I am using narrative citations--e.g., Valadez (2025) indicates--of the exact same source more than once within the same paragraph.
What is eliminate the date after the first use within that paragraph?
500
The presence or absence of this in the header is a difference between student papers and professional papers.
What is the running head?
500
These are three of the acceptable fonts and sizes for APA papers.
What are...?
- 11-point Calibri
- 11-point Arial
- 10-point Lucida Sans Unicode
- 12-point Times New Roman
- 11-point Georgia
- 10-point Computer Modern 1
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This is the recommended number of spaces to use after a period at the end of a sentence in APA 7th Edition.
What is one space?