General Format
The style and size of font you should use for your papers.
What is Times New Roman 12 point
This punctuation contains the necessary info for each in-text citation.
What are parentheses.
The order in which your references should be listed.
What is alphabetical.
In an in-text citation, if no author's name exists for your source, you should provide this information instead.
What is title of source.
Price, D. 2018, March 23. Laziness does not exist. Medium. https://humanparts.medium.com/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e312d01
What are no parentheses around date of publication.
The four major sections of an APA paper.
What are title page, abstract, main body, and references.
The traditional information needed for in-text citations.
What are author's last name and year of publication.
The first item listed in your reference page citation.
What is author's last name.
In both an in-text citation and reference page citation, if no date is given for the source, you should provide these two letters instead.
What is (n.d.).
National Alliance on Mental Illness. Mental health conditions. https://www.nami.org/Learn-More/Mental-Health-Conditions
What is no date listed (and no "n.d." either)
The three necessary elements of a title page.
What are title of paper, student's full name, and university name.
True or false: An in-text citation must be listed for every quote in your paper, even if the source has already been cited.
What is true.
True or false: The author's first name must be listed in your reference page citation.
What is false. (Only first initial needed.)
True or false: If quoting from an online source, you must provide the full url instead of page number for your in-text citations.
What is false. (Full url only needed in reference page citation.)
According to Jones, "students often had difficulty using APA style, especially when it was their first time" (p. 199).
What is no date of publication provided.
This line of text which contains your paper's title in all caps runs along the top of every page of your essay.
What is running header.
True or false: The author's name may exist outside of the parentheses, if provided in the sentence itself.
What is true.
This type of indentation is necessary for clear visual organization on your reference page.
What is hanging indentation.
True or false: Citations are not needed in your abstract.
What is true. (It is best practice not to include quotations in your abstract.)
A similar study was done of students learning to format research papers (2001).
What is no author's last name or title of source.
The name of a quote which exceeds 40 words and must be offset from the margins of the rest of your paper.
What is a block quote.
True or false: The in-text citation must come before the quotation.
What is false. (The citation may come before or after the quote.)
True or false: Every word in the title of your citations should be capitalized.
What is false. (Only the first word of each title should be capitalized.)
True or false: If quoting from a news article, the title of the article will be italicized and the name of the organization will be standard.
What is true.
Stoneman, Richard. (2008). Alexander the Great: A life in legend. Yale University Press.
What is author's first name instead of initial.