APA Style Rules

APA Style:
Introduction

By Nesma Mansour

Multiple Choice

When to reference: You should cite the work of those individuals whose ideas theories or research have directly influenced your work

• quote directly

• Paraphrase/ Summarize another person’s ideas

• refer to data or data sets

• All of he above

Multiple Choice

True or False:

You should only ever cite items that you have read and used as part of your assignment.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False:

Too many citations make it difficult to read a text, whereas too few can be plagiarism.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

These citations can be either parenthetical (in parentheses) or narrative (incorporated into the text). Based on this which of the following is correct:

• Jones (2008) found that adolescent learners experience difficulties at key transition points.

• Adolescent learners can experience difficulties at key transition points (Jones, 2008).

• In 2008, Jones’s study of adolescent learners...

• All of them are correct.

Multiple Choice

Citing several resources can be done in the following way:

• (Dufour et al., 2021; Gronn & Nawah, 2014; Harris, 2004)

• Similarly, Dufour et al. (2021), Gronn and Nawah (2014), and Harris (2004) …

• Both of them are correct.

Multiple Choice

True or False:

Shorter quotes (up to 40 words) are written in double speech marks in your text: Jones found “several adolescents were eager to move from a school” (pp. 17-18).

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False:

longer quotes (over 40 words)are written as block quotations without quotation marks: Jones (2008) found that, several adolescents were eager to move from a school to an apprenticeship setting but had great difficulty in sticking with the monotony of daily tasks as well as learning new skills. This was so surprising we had to kick ourselves repeatedly, which is what the young people were doing to each other (pp. 17-18).

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

When citing an item with three or more authors, include the surname of the first author only, plus “et al.” in every citation, as follows:

• Addams et al. (2019) found that interaction is vital for children’s mental health.

• Interaction is vital for children’s mental health (Addams et al., 2019).

• Both are correct.

Multiple Choice

True or False: A secondary source reports something originally reported somewhere else.

(Rabbitt, 1982, as cited in Lyon et al., 2014)

• False

• True

Multiple Select

Pick the rules that are followed to create a reference list following APA style rules:

• a reference will include the author, date, title, and source, in that order, with a full stop between each item.

• Author names are usually inverted at the beginning of a reference (Surname, followed by a comma, then the initials).

• No alphabetical order is needed

• The first line of each reference should begin at the left margin, with subsequent lines inset with a hanging indent of 0.5 in.