Cite it Right ✏️
In an APA in-text citation, you must always include this information.
What are the author’s last name and the year of publication?
This section at the end of an APA paper lists all the sources you cited in alphabetical order.
What is the Reference Page ?
This symbol replaces “and” when listing two authors inside parentheses.
What is the ampersand (&)?
The PDF lists three acceptable font styles for APA papers. Name one.
What is Times New Roman 12 pt, Arial 11 pt, Calibri 11 pt?
What does “APA” stand for?
What is American Psychological Association?
When an APA source has no author, you use this in place of the author’s name in the in-text citation.
What is the title of the work?
This type of indentation is used on all lines of a reference after the first line.
What is a hanging indent of ½ inch?
This APA citation style is commonly used in.
What are the social sciences?
This is the standard paper size required for APA documents, according to the Presentation.
What is 8.5 × 11 inch U.S. Letter paper?
Spot the error: (Smith, John, 2020).
What is “APA uses only the last name” → (Smith, 2020)?
This is when you start using et al., in APA.
What is “three or more authors”?
This is the line spacing used throughout APA papers, including the reference page.
What is double spacing?
These three major citation styles are compared in the presentation.
What are APA, Chicago Manual Style, and MLA ?
In APA 7th edition, DOIs are written as clickable URLs (https://doi.org/…), whereas in the 6th edition, they were formatted this way.
What is “doi:xxxx” without a URL?
According to the presentation, APA format was first introduced in this year by psychologists and researchers.
What is 1929?
These types of information do not need to be cited.
What are original ideas, common knowledge, and your own opinion?
This major element was removed from APA 7 references but existed in APA 6.
What is the publisher’s location?
Student prepared an APA title page correctly, but their reference list broke one major APA rule that applies to all book, journal, and website references.
The error?
They centered every reference on the page just like the title on the title page.
Fix the error by naming the required alignment for the reference list.
What is left alignment?
This paper element must appear in the upper-right corner of every page in an APA student paper, according to the PDF.
What is Page number?
True/False: APA style requires the title on the student title page to be centered and bold, but every reference entry on the reference page must be left-aligned with a hanging indent.
What is True?
This year is when the current edition of the APA format (7th edition) was released.
What is 2019?
APA 7 does not use this phrase unless a retrieval date is needed.
What is “Retrieved from”?
On an APA 7th edition, student title page, one required element appears directly below the author’s name. It identifies the academic class the paper is written for.
What is the course code and course name?
In an APA journal article reference, this component appears immediately after the journal name but it's not the issue number.
What is the volume number?
This group consisting of psychologists, anthropologists, and business managers, created the very first APA guidelines.
What is the group of researchers who published the rules in Psychological Bulletin?