APA Citation Guidelines and Practices

This video tutorial introduces the APA 7th edition citation style, focusing on in-text citations and reference lists. It explains how to format citations for various sources, including journal articles, magazines, newspapers, and web pages. The tutorial covers the use of author names, publication years, and DOIs, and provides guidance on handling sources with multiple authors, no authors, or no publication dates.

What is the primary purpose of in-text citations in APA style?

• To provide a summary of the paper

• To confuse the reader

• To give credit to the original source

• To make the paper look longer

How should you format an in-text citation when paraphrasing?

• Author's last name and title of the work

• Author's last name and page number

• Author's last name and year of publication

• Author's first name and year of publication

When citing a source with three or more authors, what should you include?

• The last author's last name

• Only the first author's last name

• First author's last name followed by 'et al.'

• All authors' last names

What should you do if the material you are citing has no author?

• Use the organization as the author

• Use the title of the material

• Leave the author field blank

• Use 'Anonymous' as the author

What is the role of the reference list in an APA formatted paper?

• To provide a brief summary of the paper

• To list all the sources cited in the paper

• To include only the most important sources

• To provide a glossary of terms

Which of the following is NOT a component of a journal article citation in APA format?

• Year of publication

• Author's last name

• Title of the article

• Publisher's name

How should a DOI be presented in a reference list citation?

• As plain text

• As a hyperlink

• As a footnote

• As a parenthetical note

What should you do if a magazine article does not have a DOI but has a URL?

• Leave the citation incomplete

• Omit the URL

• Include the URL as a hyperlink

• Use the publisher's name instead

When citing a web page with no individual author, what should you use as the author?

• The date of access

• The first word of the title

• The website's name

• The agency responsible for the webpage

If a newspaper article is from a library database and lacks volume, issue, or page numbers, what should you do?

• Use 'N/A' for missing elements

• End the reference with the newspaper title

• Include the database information

• Leave the reference incomplete