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100
This citation style requires an author and page number, but not a year.
What is MLA?
100
MLA titles the source page  ______. 
What is the Works Cited?
100
The two most important facts for most APA citations are: +_____ and _______.
What is author and date?
100

What is wrong with the following citation? In most western European countries the prevalence of CP has remained remarkably constant over the past 30 to 40 years (Jones Donaldson & Reinhold 1997).

What is there is no punctuation? (the commas between author names, the semi-colon between sources, the period after et al.)

100
This is what appears in the header of each MLA page. 
What is the writer's last name and page number?
200
This citation style defines a "long quotation" as one that is 40 words or more.
What is APA?
200
The title used to describe the list of sources at the end of an APA document.
What is the Reference page?
200
Page numbers are formatted without a p., pg., or any other similar marking in this citation style.
What is MLA?
200

What is wrong with the following citation? However, since emotion specific facial processing deficits have also been found in depression and other psychiatric disorders (Heimberg, Gur, Erwin, Shtasel, Wheeler, Shultz & Gur, 1992).

What is the citation should say “et al.”? (Heimberg et al., 1992)?

200

In MLA, if you have two authors with the same last name, you do this for in-text citations.

What is use the author's first initial to distinguish between sources. ie Although some medical ethicists claim that cloning will lead to designer children (R. Miller 12), others note that the advantages for medical research outweigh this consideration (A. Miller 46).

300
MLA citation style defines a "long quotation" as one that is _____.
What is more than four lines of text as it appears in the essay? 
300
Two qualities that APA and MLA resources pages share are: ____ and ______
What is (any combination of two out of these four) 1. alphabetically by last name/ first word of entry 2. one-inch marging 3. double-spaced 4. second line of entry is 'hanging' indent
300
The biggest difference between APA and MLA is that APA always requires this in the text of the paper.
What is the year of publication? 
300

Name the error in this citation: 

Calfee, R. C., & Valencia, R. R. (1991). APA Guide to         Preparing Manuscripts for Journal Publication.             Washington, DC: American Psychological                     Association.

What is it's not double-spaced, the journal title is not italicized, OR, in the title, only APA should be capitalized? 
300

If you want to remove the middle of a direct quote, this symbol should be placed in the middle.

What is an ellipses, or "..." ie In an essay on urban legends, Jan Harold Brunvand notes that "some individuals make a point of learning every recent rumor or tale . . . and in a short time a lively exchange of details occurs" (78).

400
In MLA, the parenthetical citation for a long quotation goes __________.
What is after the closing punctuation mark?
400
In MLA, all long works should be formatted with this, while all short works are formatted with these. 
What are italics and quotation marks? 
400
APA style requires this to be placed prior to page numbers.
What is p.?
400

Assuming there is no attribution provided, MLA wants these two things in parenthetical citation and APA wants these three things.

What is (last name page number) and (Last name, year, page number)?

400

In MLA, this material would be cited this way for an in-text citation: "I used a statement made by Rachael Zeleny, quoted in an article by John Smith, and found on page 32."

What is (qtd. in Smith 32)?

500
For a long quotation in APA style, quotation marks are _______.
What is omitted/not used?
500
In this citation style, only the first letter of a title, subtitle, and proper nouns are capitalized.
What is APA?
500
What symbol is used between 2 author's names in APA but not MLA parenthetical citations?
What is an ampersand? 
500
Concerning web page references, in APA, if a web page doesn't list an author, the writer should ________
What is use the institutional author (*if no institutional author is listed, the writer should use the title of the web page or article title as the beginning of the entry)
500

Papers in MLA need this information in the top left-hand corner of the 1st essay page. 

student name, instructor name, class number, date (day month year)