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Parentheses surround this after the known author(s) or editor(s) in a reference.
What is the publication date?
100
Two pieces of information are minimally required for an in-text citation.
What are the author last name and the year.
100
The reference list is alphabetized by which criteria?
What is “by author’s last name?”
100
APA format uses specific line spacing and margins.
What is double spaced lines and 1-inch margins.
100
You are citing a work by T.J. Berndt that was published in 2002. The article title is "Friendship Quality and Social Development" and was published in "Current Directions in Psychological Science," volume 11, and is pages 7-10.
What is Berndt, T. J. (2002). Friendship quality and social development. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11 , 7-10.
200
This separates the city of publication and the publisher in a book reference.
What is a colon?
200
You are citing a quote that has two authors, "Wegener and Petty" from page 68, published in 2002. How would you cite that parenthetically?
What is: (Wegener & Petty, 2002, p. 68).
200
Instead of putting the full name of the author in an APA reference, you abbreviate the first name by using what?
What is their initials?
200
The second and subsequent lines to a reference page are formatted in what fashion.
What is a hanging indent of .5 inches.
200
You are citing an article from an online database (like the ones shown in class on Wednesday). The author is T. Parker-Pope, and it is from The New York Times. The article is called "Psychiatry Handbook linked to Drug Industry" and was published on May 8, 2006. And you found it at http://well.blogs.nytimes.com
What is Parker-Pope, T. (2008, May 6). Psychiatry handbook linked to drug industry. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://well.blogs.nytimes.com
300
A punctuation mark is missing from the following edited book citation: Wojnowski, B. S., Pea, C. H. (Eds.). (2014). Models and approaches to STEM professional development. Arlington, VA: National Science Teachers Association. What is it and where does it go?
What is an ampersand ("&" sign) separating the two editors.
300
You are quoting from a work that has no author or date. The article title is "Tutoring and APA" and it was published in 2002. How would you cite this in-text?
What is ("Tutoring and APA," n.d.)
300
References with the same authors in the same order (i.e. same first author, same second author, etc.) are listed this way in the reference lists.
What is “by year, earliest first?”
300
When you're reading to create your references page. What do you use for the title and where does it go?
The single word "References," centered at the top of a new page.
300
A source was written by two authors - D.T. Wegener and R.E. Petty in 1994. The title of the article is "Mood Management Across Affective States" and is from "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology", volume 66, and is pages 1034-1058. How would you cite this in a references list?
What is Wegener, D. T., & Petty, R. E. (1994). Mood management across affective states. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66 , 1034-1048.
400
What do the journal name, comma, and volume number in a journal article citation have in common?
What is being italicized?
400
You are making a direct quote in your text: Malvini claimed "Reese’s peanut butter cups are the best Halloween candy ever.” The quote was given in 2015, on page 13. Where do the year and page number go?
What is directly after the last name, and after the quote, respectively. Such as: Malvini (2015) claimed “Reese’s peanut butter cups are the best Halloween candy ever” (p. 13).
400
The journal article "A Treatise on Why Jeopardy is the World's Most Effective Teaching Tool" would be written this way if it were in an APA reference.
What is "A treatise on why Jeopardy is the world's most effective teaching tool"?
400
What's the difference between in-text citations and reference list citations in regard to how page numbers are presented?
What is the use of "p. or pp." In-text citations use "p. 22" to present page numbers, while in the references list page numbers are listed with numerals only, e.g. 22-24.
400
You are citing an article in a magazine. The author is W. A. Henry and the article is called "Making the Grade in Today's Schools" and was published on April 9, 1990. The magazine is "Time," issue 135, and the article is on pages 28-41.
What is Henry, W. A., III. (1990, April). Making the grade in today's schools. Time, 135, 28-31.
500
This separates two back-to-back references in an in-text citation.
What is a semi-colon.
500
You have already given a parenthetical citation for a source that has five authors - Kernis, Cornell, Sun, Berry, and Harlow. You are citing this source again. How would you cite a source with five authors when you have already listed them all in a previous citation? The source was published in 2006.
What is (Kernis et al., 2006).
500
This is the proper form for an article written by authors Hershel Layton and Luke Triton in 2011 called "On the Cultural Significance of Puzzles," published in the twelfth edition of the journal Puzzleology, found on pages 419-424.
What is: Layton H., & Triton, L. (2011). On the cultural significance of puzzles. Puzzleology, 12 , 419-424.
500
APA format changes the placement of periods for direct quotations in in-text citing. In what ways?
What is by moving the period from inside to the quotation mark to the end of the sentence.
500
You are citing an entry from an edited book. The author of the entry is P.G. Bergmann and the entry is titled "Relativity" from The New Encyclopedia Britannia, edited by John Wright and Alice James. This encyclopedia was published in 2003, and the article is on pages 501-508. The encyclopedia was published in Chicago, IL by Encyclopedia Britannica.
What is Bergmann, P. G. (1993). Relativity. In J. Wright, & A. James (Eds.), The New Encyclopedia Britannica (pp. 501-508). Chicago, IL: Encyclopedia Britannica.