What's in a Name
Formatting
In-Text Citations
Bibliographic Citations
Practice
100

This appears at the end of a research paper formatted in APA

What is a References Page

100

Your identifying information, including your name, title of your paper, and your university should appear here

What is a Cover Page/Title Page

100

Include this information inside a standard citation for a quote

What are the author name(s), a publication date, and a page number with the lowercase letter “p” and a period

100

Entries should be listed according to this

What is alphabetical order 

100

Is this citation correct? If not, what's wrong. 

She stated, "Students often had difficulty using APA style" (Jones, p. 199), but she did not offer an explanation as to why.

What is publication year? 

200

This association gives APA its name

Who is the American Psychological Association

200

Margins should measure this amount

What is 1-inch

200

for a source that has two authors, this should be used between their names in a citation

What is an "&" (ampersand)

200

Use this piece of information rather than an URL when it is available

What is a DOI

200

Is this citation correct? If not, what's wrong. 

Jones (1998) found a variety of causes for student dissatisfaction with prevailing citation practices (paras. 4–5).

It is correct. 

300

Because APA places emphasis on current data, this information appears within an in-text citation

What is the year of publication

300

This information should appear 3rd in the title page’s centered information

What is your university affiliation

300

The Latin phrase “et al,” can be used in an in-text citation for what number of authors

What is 3 or more

300

You should do this ________ for authors’ first name on the bibliography

What is use only initials for first names? Don’t spell first names out within bibliographic citations

300

Is this citation correct? If not, what's wrong. 

Similarly, Darwin refers to teacher evaluation as an established orthodoxy, labeling it a "venerated," "axiomatic" institutional practice (2012, p. 733).  

What is publication year should be after author's name

400

This phrase appears before the shortened version of your title within the header on every page of a professional paper in APA

What is Running Head

400

If I wanted to quote a 42-word paragraph from a source, how should it be formatted?

What is a block quote

400

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

400

These type of sources should not be included on the bibliography, even though they are cited in the paper?

What are personal communications

400

Is this citation correct? If not, what's wrong. 

However, recent research suggests the usage of SETs in personnel decisions is still overwhelmingly common, though hard percentages are hard to come by, perhaps owing to the multifaceted nature of these decisions (Boring et al., 2017; Galbraith et al., 2012). 

It is correct. 

500

Name 2 other fields that may use APA (aside from Psychology)

What are justice studies, education, linguistics, or sociology

500

What length of quotes must be put in block format?

What is 40 or more words

500

Since APA style calls for authors to be specific about identifying the location of direct quotations and paraphrases, you should include this when you don’t have a page number from a Web page or electronic resource

What is a paragraph number. Abbreviate paragraph with “para.”

500

These months should be written in full within bibliographic citations?

What is all of them; none of them should be abbreviated

500

Is this citation correct? If not, what's wrong. 

Basow, S. A. Student evaluations of college professors: When gender matters. Journal of Educational Psychology, 1995, 87(4), 656–665. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0022-0663.87.4.656

What is hanging indent, publication year, and journal in italics