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What is the format for a standard in-text citation?

" (Last name page number).

" (Johnson 203).

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What is the standard format of an in-text citation?

" (Last name, date of publication, page number).

" (Johnson, 2008, pp. 199–205).

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What are the two main methods of citing in Chicago?

Author-Date and Notes-Bibliography

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MLA

""(Johnson & Smith 98).

""(Johnson and Smith 98).

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What countries does Great Britain consist of?

England, Scotland, and Wales

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What should be in an MLA header?

Last name Page number

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What is the last page of an APA styled paper called?

Reference List (References)
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What does an in-text citation look like for Author-Date?

""(Last name Date of Publication[, page number]).

""(Frank 1988, 68).

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APA

Facebook, (October 29, 2020), Number of monthly active Facebook users worldwide as of 3rd quarter 2020 (in millions) [Graph], In Statista, Retrieved January 19, 2021, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly-active-facebook-users-worldwide/

APA

Facebook. (October 29, 2020). Number of monthly active Facebook users worldwide as of 3rd quarter 2020 (in millions) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 19, 2021, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly-active-facebook-users-worldwide/

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How many electoral votes must a candidate win in order to win the presidency?

More than half. (270 of 538)

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How should multiple authors be included in an in-text citation? (2 and 3+)

" (Lastname and Lastname page number).

" (Lastname et al. pagenumber).

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What should be included in an in-text citation with no author?

" (Abrreviated title, date of publication).

" (The Earth is Ravioli, 2020).

300

How should footnotes be organized? (Notes-Bibliography)

a. By order of appearance

b. By author last name

c. By author first name

a. By order of apprearance

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MLA

""(Smith et al. p. 38).

""(Smith et al. 38).

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Who was one of the original three musketeers?

Athos, Porthos and Aramis

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What is the format of in-text citation from an indirect source?

" (qtd. in Lastname pagenumber).

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What information is required on a student title page?

Pager Number

Title

Author Name

Author Affiliation (Give the full name of your institutional affiliation, with the department and university names separated by a comma. The course title, instructor, and assignment due date follow on their own lines.)

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Which set of fields commonly uses Author-Date Style?

A. Humanities, history, religion, art

B. Sciences, social sciences

B. Sciences, social sciences

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MLA

Coito, S., and F. Giacosa. Acta Physica Polonica B, vol. 51, no. 8, Sept. 2020, pp. 1713–1737.  “On the Origin of the Y (4260).” EBSCOhost, doi:10.5506/APhysPolB.51.1713.

MLA

COITO, S., and F. GIACOSA. “On the Origin of the Y (4260).” Acta Physica Polonica B, vol. 51, no. 8, Sept. 2020, pp. 1713–1737. EBSCOhost, doi:10.5506/APhysPolB.51.1713.

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Which mineral is the hardest on the Mohs scale?

Diamond
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A student is using 2 different sources from the same author. How should they reference these in the text?

" (Lastname, "Abbreviated title" page number).

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When does a quotation require the block-quote format?

When the quote is 40+ words.

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What is the maximum number of authors you should list in a parenthetical citation? In the Bibliography? (Notes-Bibliography)

Parenthetical citation -> 3

Bibliography -> 10

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"They were not aware of the trouble that the farmer would bring"1.

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1. Timothy Sam, Going Home (Sacramento: Blue Fence, 2018), 12-15.

"They were not aware of the trouble that was coming."1

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1. Timothy Sam, Going Home (Sacramento: Blue Fence, 2018), 12-15.

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How many times was Harry Potter rejected by publishers?

12

Also the number of times it has been rejected by Zach.