APA Style Quiz

The correct spacing between lines is in APA Style is:

• 2 lines

• 1.5 lines

• Single line

• 3 lines

Identify the correct in-text citation for this source with no author: Thanks a lot, bro. (2016, August 8). Maclean's, 129(31), 9. 

 

• (n.a., 2016)

• (Thanks a lot, 2016, p. 9)

• (Maclean's, 2016, p. 9)

• (Unknown, 2016, p. 9)

Identify the correct in-text citation for this quote from Nutrition and Mental Health by Ruth Leyse-Wallace, 2013.

 

• "Levels and ratios of essential fatty acids appear to be linked to anger, violence, hostility, and aggressive behavior."

• Leyse-Wallace (2013) notes that "levels and ratios of essential fatty acids appear to be linked to anger, violence, hostility, and aggressive behavior" (p. 31).

• Leyse-Wallace notes that "levels and ratios of essential fatty acids appear to be linked to anger, violence, hostility, and aggressive behavior" (2013, p. 31).

• Leyse-Wallace (2013) notes that "levels and ratios of essential fatty acids appear to be linked to anger, violence, hostility, and aggressive behavior."

Identify the correct in-text citation for the following summary from this source: "Multituberculates of the Lac Pelletier Lower Fauna, Late Eocene (Duchesnean), of Saskatchewan" by John E. Storer, 1993, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 30, iss. 8, pages 1613-1617.

• Two species of multituberculate mammals were present in Saskatchewan in the Late Eocene (1993).

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  Two species of multituberculate mammals were present in Saskatchewan in the Late Eocene (Storer, p. 1617).

• Two species of multituberculate mammals were present in Saskatchewan in the Late Eocene.

   

• Two species of multituberculate mammals were present in Saskatchewan in the Late Eocene (Storer, 1993).

Identify the correct reference format for this webpage (copy and paste the URL into a new tab/window): https://www.nasa.gov/topics/moon-to-mars/overview

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (2019). Moon to Mars Overview. https://www.nasa.gov/topics/moon-to-mars/overview

• Moon to Mars Overview. (2019). https://www.nasa.gov/topics/moon-to-mars/overview

   

• Moon to Mars Overview. (2019, April 5). Retrieved from https://www.nasa.gov/topics/moon-to-mars/overview

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (2019, April 5). Moon to Mars Overview. https://www.nasa.gov/topics/moon-to-mars/overview

Identify the correct reference format for this book:  Jellyfish: A Natural History by Lisa-Ann Gershwin, 2016, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

• Gershwin, L. (2016). Jellyfish: A natural history. The University of Chicago Press.

   

• Gershwin, Lisa-Ann. Jellyfish: A natural history. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

• Gershwin, Lisa-Ann. (2016). Jellyfish: A natural history. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

   

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  Gershwin, L. 2016. Jellyfish: A natural history. The University of Chicago Press.

In APA Style the list of references should be in order by:

• Chronological by date of publication

• Alphabetical by title

• Alphabetical by first author's last name

• No particular order

What four elements do most references contain?

• author, information, and source

• author, version, date, and location

• author, date, title, and source

• author, institution, and date

Select the correct usage of in-text citation in APA style

• Barks and Watts (2002) provide an excellent outline of interactive classroom activities for addressing plagiarism in a cross-cultural setting.

• Debbie Johnson and Sarah Miller (2002) provide an excellent outline of the interactive classroom activities for addressing plagiarism in a cross-cultural setting. (p.34).

• Debbie Johnson and Sarah Miller in their study” Textual borrowing strategies for grad-level ESL writers” (2002) provide an excellente outline of interactive classroom activities for addressing plagiarism in a cross-cultural setting.  

• Barks & Watts provide an excellent outline of interactive classroom activities for addressing plagiarism in a cross-cultural setting.