Harvard Referencing Quiz

What is an in-text citation?

• A footnote at the end of a page

• A type of font used in academic writing

• A section of the bibliography

• A reference to a source within the body of the text.

What should be included in the reference list for a book?

• Author's name, title of the movie, release date, director, and runtime

• Author's name, title of the book, publication date, publisher, and ISBN number

• Author's name, title of the book, publication date, genre, and number of characters

• Author's name, title of the book, publication date, editor, and page count

When should parenthetical citations be used?

• When creating a title for your work

• When writing a conclusion

• When adding a table of contents

• When directly quoting or paraphrasing someone else's work in your own writing

What are secondary sources in Harvard referencing?

• Sources that are fictional and not based on facts

• Sources that are outdated and unreliable

• Sources that are not relevant to the topic

• Sources that discuss or analyse primary sources

What is the correct way to quote a source in Harvard referencing?

• Include the author's first name and the year of publication in parentheses after the quote or paraphrased information.

• Include the title of the source and the year of publication in parentheses after the quote or paraphrased information.

• Include the page number and the year of publication in parentheses after the quote or paraphrased information.

• Include the author's last name and the year of publication in parentheses after the quote or paraphrased information.

Match the reasons for including in-text citations in academic writing with their descriptions.

• Introduces irrelevant details that may distract the reader.

• To show off how much research was done for the writing.

• Increases the length of the document without adding value.

• To confuse the reader with unnecessary information.

• Provides a misleading impression of thorough research.

• To give credit to the original source of information and to avoid plagiarism.

• Enhances the credibility of the writing by acknowledging sources.

• To make the writing look longer and more professional.

How should the author's name be formatted in an in-text citation for a journal article?

• Surname, First initial

• First initial, Surname

• First name, Surname initial

• Full name

The information that should be included in a reference list for a website is (a)  

• Author's phone number, webpage titl
• Webpage title, author's email, date
• Author's name, webpage title, URL,
• Author's name, webpage title, date

When should you use a page number in a parenthetical citation?

• When paraphrasing the source

• When using a block quote from the source

• When quoting directly from a source

• When summarising the source

Match the following descriptions with the correct terms in Harvard referencing.

• Using a different font for the original text.

• Quoting uses the exact words from the source, while paraphrasing rephrases the original text in your own words.

• Using the exact words from the source.

• Quoting uses emojis from the source, while paraphrasing uses GIFs.

• Summarising the original text.

• Quoting involves summarising the original text, while paraphrasing involves copying it word for word.

• Using emojis from the source.

• Quoting means using a different font for the original text, while paraphrasing means changing the colour of the text.