APA Basics
This edition of the APA Publication Manual is currently in use.
What is the 7th edition?
The form of an in text citation looks like this.
What is (Author Last name, Date)
The reference list appears on this page of an APA paper.
What is the last page?
Page numbers should be placed in this location.
What is the top right corner?
When writing numbers in APA style, spell out numbers below this amount.
What is 10?
The two main parts of an APA-style paper are these.
What are the title page and the main body?
This punctuation mark separates an author's name from the year in parenthetical citations.
What is a comma?
References should be listed in this order.
What is alphabetical order?
The margins for an APA paper should be set to this on all sides.
What is 1 inch?
What is 1 inch?
When citing a website with no date, use this abbreviation in parentheses.
What is "n.d." (no date)?
This type of spacing is used throughout an APA paper.
What is double-spacing?
For a work with three or more authors, use this after the first author's name in subsequent citations.
What is "et al."?
For journal articles, include this information after the title.
What is the journal name, volume, issue, and page numbers?
True or false: A running head is needed for student papers.
What is false.
In APA 7th edition, the use of this for emphasizing text is now explicitly encouraged.
What is italics?
The standard font size for APA papers is this.
What is 12-point? or What is 11-point?
When citing a specific part of a source, include this after the year.
What is the page number?
Use this formatting for the title of a book or journal in the reference list.
What is italics?
What is this symbol called: &
What is an ampersand.
This pronoun is now endorsed in APA 7th edition to refer to individuals whose gender is unknown or irrelevant.
What is "they"?
APA stands for this organization.
What is the American Psychological Association?
When citing multiple works in the same parentheses, use this to separate them.
What is a semicolon?
For online sources, include this at the end of the reference.
What is the URL or DOI?
How far in must you indent paragraphs?
What is .5 inches.
In formal academic writing following APA 7th edition guidelines, these shortened forms of words should typically be avoided.
What are contractions?