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APA Format Review Exam
What does the abbreviation "APA" stand for? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔ ️ American Psychological Association
What manual is the official source for APA Style? - Correct Answer ✔ ️ ✔ ️ Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition
What manual is the official source for APA Style for undergraduate students and new writers? - Correct Answer ✔ ️ ✔️ Concise Guide to APA Style, Seventh Edition
What is the current edition number of the APA Style manual? - Correct Answer
✔️ ✔️ Seventh edition
What elements are required on an APA Style student title page? (CG § 1.6, PM § 2.3) - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Paper title, author name, author affiliation, course number and name, instructor name, and assignment due date
What information is included in a student author affiliation? (CG § 1.9, PM § 2.6)
- Correct Answer ✔️ ✔ ️ Name of the department or division of the course
to which the paper is being submitted and name of the college or university attended
What element is required in the page header of both student and professional APA Style papers? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Page number (aligned to the right margin)
What element is required in the page header of all professional papers and only for student papers if requested by an instructor or an institution? - Correct
Answer ✔️ ✔️ Running head (aligned to the left margin)
What line spacing should you use for all text in an APA Style paper? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Double-spacing
What paragraph alignment and paragraph indentation should you use for all text in an APA Style paper? - Correct Answer ✔ ️ ✔️ All text is aligned to the left margin, with the first line of every paragraph indented 0.5 in.
How many heading levels is it possible to use in the text of an APA Style paper? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Five heading levels
How many heading levels does a typical APA Style paper contain? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Two or three heading levels
What are the two types of capitalization used in APA Style? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Title case and sentence case
Which type of capitalization is used for the titles of works in reference list entries? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Sentence case (meaning most words are lowercase
Which words do you capitalize when writing the title of a work in a reference list entry? - Correct Answer ✔ ️ ✔️ First word of the title and any subtitle
**- Any proper nouns appearing in the title
- Any nouns followed by numerals or letters**
How should you introduce an abbreviation in the narrative text of an APA Style paper? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Example: posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
When are abbreviations used for units of measurement (e.g., meter, kilogram) in the text? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ metric system
What units of time are abbreviated in the text when accompanied by a numeric value? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Hours, minutes, seconds, and any other divisions of the second are abbreviated.
What Latin term meaning "and others" is used in both narrative and parenthetical in-text citations? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ et al.
What is the Latin abbreviation for "for example" that is used within parentheses? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ e.g., (remember to use periods after each letter and a comma after the abbreviation)
In general, what numbers are expressed in words and what numbers are expressed in numerals in an APA Style paper? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ • Numbers 0 through 9 are expressed in words.
- Numbers above 10 are expressed in numerals.
What numbers are always expressed in words in the text of an APA Style paper?
- Correct Answer ✔️ ✔ ️ **Numbers that begin a sentence, title, or heading
- Numbers in common fractions
- Numbers in universally accepted usage**
What does it mean to paraphrase versus directly quote from a work? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ • A paraphrase restates another's idea (or your own idea from a previous work) in your own words.
- A direct quotation reproduces words verbatim from another work or your own previous work.
What is the maximum length (number of words) of a short quotation (i.e., a quotation that is placed in double quotation marks within the text of a sentence)? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ 39 words
What format should you use for a quotation of 50 words? - Correct Answer ✔ ️ ✔️ Block quotation format
How do you format a block quotation? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔ ️ Start the block quotation on a new line.
**- Do not use quotation marks around it.
- Indent the whole block 0.5 in. from the left margin, and indent the first line of any additional paragraphs another 0.5 in.
- Place parentheses containing the author, date, and page number or other location information (if citing the work in parentheses) or only the page number**
or other location information (if citing the author and year in the narrative) after the quotation's final punctuation.
- Do not put a period after the closing parenthesis of the citation.
What chapter in the APA Style manuals provides reference examples? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Chapter 10 in the Concise Guide to APA Style and the Publication Manual
What four elements do most references contain? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔
️ Author, date, title, and source
What should you write instead of a date in a reference for a work with no date?
- Correct Answer ✔️ ✔ ️ Write "n.d." (which stands for "no date") in parentheses.
When do you need to include a bracketed description after the title in a reference? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ When it helps identify works outside the peer-reviewed academic literature (i.e., works other than articles, books, reports, etc.) and thus aids readers in identifying and retrieving the work
- In social media references to indicate attached links or images
b. Journal articles always go first on the reference page
c. References should be in alphabetical order on the page, according to the first listed author
d. We should use all caps on the reference page - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ c. References should be in alphabetical order on the page, according to the first listed author
In APA, is it possible to cite/paraphrase within a sentence? For example, "According to Brown and Smith (2010), red cars are really fast." - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Yes
In APA, is it appropriate to cite a reference once at the end of a paragraph? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ No, in APA format, all borrowed info./statements should be cited. We can, however, refer to the same author within the paragraph.
The title of the paper, on the title page, is bolded in APA format. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ No, it is not bolded.
Which is the correct format for a book? Note: the system may not show double spacing and/or indenting properly, so keep this in mind and only look at the
actual content for this question. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Bovee, C. & Thill, J. (2014). Business communication today (12th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Publishing, Inc.
Of the following, which reference is for a journal article?
a. Schein, E. H. (1990). Organizational culture. American Psychologist, 45(2), 109-119.
b. Jones, A. & Masters, J. (2016). Business today (10th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Fox Publishing, Inc.
c. Allen, I. E., & Seaman, J. (2008). Staying the course. Babson Survey Research Group: The Sloan Consortium.
d. Newman, F., Couturier, L., & Scurry, J. (2010). The future of higher education: Rhetoric, reality, and the risks of the market: John Wiley & Sons. - Correct
Answer ✔️ ✔️ a. Schein, E. H. (1990). Organizational culture. American Psychologist, 45(2), 109-119.
Which statement is NOT true?
For the running head at the top of the title page, which is correct for a paper titled "Business Communication"? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Running head: BUSINESS COMMUNICATION
Can it be considered plagiarism if a student forgets to include a citation and/or reference? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Yes
Which two statements are NOT true?
a. All new paragraphs should be indented.
b. APA formatted papers should be double spaced throughout, including between paragraphs.
c. We should not delete the additional spacing between paragraphs, if more than double spaced.
d. The first line of a reference, on a reference page, should be indented. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ c. We should not delete the additional spacing between paragraphs, if more than double spaced.
d. The first line of a reference, on a reference page, should be indented.
Which of the following is correct, if no publication date is given for a reference?
a. (Spangler & Angle, n.d., P. 367)
b. (Spangler & Angle, N.D., p. 367)
c. (Spangler & Angle, n.d., p. 367)
d. (Spangler & Angle, p. 367) - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ c. (Spangler & Angle, n.d., p. 367)
When do we use block quoting? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔ ️ We use block quoting for quotes with more than 40 words.
Is it appropriate to cite and reference a wiki in an academic paper? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ No
Why, as students and/or researchers, do we cite and reference?
a. We cite to give credit to the original author
b. We cite to avoid plagiarism
For a properly formatted APA title page, which is correct? - Correct Answer ✔ ️ ✔️ Title
Your Name
Name of School
Date
Instructor's Name
Which is correct for the reference page?
a. References
b. References (bolded)
c. REFERENCES
d. References: - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ a. References
In APA format, first level headings are centered and bolded. How do we format second level headings? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Left margin and bolded
