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This appears at the end of a research paper formatted in APA.
What is a “References” page?
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Your identifying information, including your name, title of your paper, and your university should appear here.
What is the cover page?
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Include this information inside a standard citation.
What are the author name(s), and a publication date? **And, if you are including a paraphrase or direct quote, the lowercase letter "p," a period, and the page number.
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Entries should be listed according to this.
What is alphabetical order? Flintstone, F. (1966). Title . . . Flintstone, W. (1973). Title . . . Rubble, B. (1964). Title . . .
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Here is the entry: Pink, S. (2007). Doing visual ethnography (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. How would you correct this in-text citation/what is missing? In her work, Sarah Pink examines how visual artifacts, such as important photographs and tangible objects, have been used increasingly in ethnography works by social scientists.
What is: A: In her work, Sarah Pink (2007) examines how visual artifacts, such as important photographs and tangible objects, have been used increasingly in ethnography works by social scientists.
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This phrase appears before your title on a cover page.
What is a "Running head"? Running head: BRILLIANT TITLE FEATURED ON EACH SUBSEQUENT PAGE
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Margins should be set at this measure.
What is 1-inch?
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This should be used between a citation that has two authors.
What is an ampersand - &?
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Treatment of author names is different in APA citation. You should do this with authors' first and last names.
What is list the last name first, and use only initials for first names? Patty, P., & Brown, C. (1960). Title . . . Potter, H., Granger, H., & Weasley, R. (2004). Title . . .
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Citation entry: Gere, A.R., Aull, L, Escudero, M.D.P., Lancaster, Z., & Vander Lei, E. (2013). Local assessment: Using genre analysis to validate directed self-placement. College Composition and Communication 64(4), 605-633. What is the in-text citation for this paraphrase?: Researchers at the University of Michigan used a genre-based textual analysis of students’ writing in the program’s directed self-placement program to develop better methods for helping students succeed in the writing program there.
What is: Researchers at the University of Michigan used a genre-based textual analysis of students’ writing in the program’s directed self-placement program to develop better methods for helping students succeed in the writing program there (Gere et al., 2013).
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This association gives APA its name.
Who is the American Psychological Association?
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If you include a table in your paper, it should be labeled in this format.
What is with the word "Table", an Arabic numeral, and a title? Table III "Teacher Enthusiasm Rates in Faculty Meetings"
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The Latin phrase “et al,” can be used in an in-text citation for 3-5 authors once you have done this.
What is included all of the author’s names the first time the resource was cited? (all subsequent in-text citations can use the abbreviation)
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Use this piece of information to alphabetize multiple sources by the same author.
What is the year? Shipka, J. (2005). Title . . . Shipka, J. (2012). Title . . .
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Create a bibliographic citation for this online journal article with URL: Author name: Martin Garrett Jacobs Year of publication: 2009 Title of article: public attitudes toward government spending Journal title: American Journal of Political Science Volume #: 38 Issue #: 2 Page #s: 336 to 361 doi: 10.1086/245343
What is: Jacobs, M. G.(2009). Public attitudes toward government spending. American Journal of Political Science, 38(2), 336-361. doi: 10.1086/245343. Last, F. M. (Year Published). Article title. Journal Name, Volume(Issue), pp. Page(s). Retrieved from URL.
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Because APA places emphasis on current data, this information appears within an in-text citation.
What is the year of publication? According to Miley Cyrus (2013), it is perfectly acceptable to make oneself a fool on public television. The VMA awards recently set surprisingly low standards for celebrity performances (Cyrus, 2013).
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This information should appear on the 3rd line of the title page’s centered information.
What is your university affiliation? Life as a Wolf Mr. Wuf North Carolina State University
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Your in-text citation include should include this, if you have chosen to give the author name in a signal phrase. (Careful!)
What is: only include “p” followed by a period and the page number--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.
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In a standard entry, this is how titles of articles are treated.
What is they are neither italicized or put in quotation marks? They also follow different rules of capitalization. Armstrong, N. (1969). One small step for man: But one giant leap for mankind.
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DAILY DOUBLE! Write a correct bibliographic citation for this article: ARTICLE: Looking Down and Ramping Up: The Impact of Status Differences on Effort in Intergroup Contexts AUTHORS: Nathan C. Pettit, Robert B. Lount, Jr. JOURNAL: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology VOLUME: 46 YEAR: 2010 PAGES: 9-20
What is: Pettit, N. C., & Lount, Jr., R. B. (2010). Looking down and ramping up: The impact of status differences on effort in intergroup contexts. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 9-20.
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Name 2 other fields that may use APA (aside from Psychology).
What are justice studies, education, linguistics, anthropology, or sociology (etc.)?
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DAILY DOUBLE! What do you use to introduce a quotation? And, how does the page number appear for singular and for multiple pages?
What is: --You introduce the quotation with a signal phrase that includes the author’s last name followed by the year of publication in parentheses. --Put the page number preceded by "p." (or "pp." for more than one page) in parentheses after the quotation.
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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 either “para” (para. 1), or a symbol or (¶ 1).
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These months should be written in full within bibliographic citations.
What is all of them.? None of them should be abbreviated.
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Create an in-text citation for this entry: Rhodes, M. (2012). Naïve theories of social groups. Child Development 83(6), 190. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01835.x Sample sentence: Rhodes argues that naïve theories “allow children to make inferences that go beyond directly observable events and to infer how new people will behave in novel situations”.
What is: Rhodes (2012) argues that naïve theories “allow children to make inferences that go beyond directly observable events and to infer how new people will behave in novel situations” (p. 190).