WorksheetsCFS 130W Reading Quizzes 4 & 5
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
To format the title of a reference list entry of stand alone works such as books and webpages, italicize the title, and capitalize it using sentence case; for works that are part of a greater whole such as journal articles, capitalize the title using sentence case without using italics or quotation marks.
True
False
Which of the following is NOT one of the guidelines for formatting author information in a reference list entry?
Invert all individual authors’ names, providing the surname first, followed by a comma and the author’s initials.
Use no spaces between initials.
Provide surnames and initials for up to and including 20 authors. When there are two to 20 authors, use an ampersand before the final author’s name.
Use a comma to separate an author’s initials from additional author names, even when there are only two authors. Use an ampersand (&) before the final author’s name.
Write the author’s name exactly as it appears on the published work, including hyphenated surnames and two-part surnames.
Which of the following is TRUE regarding the format of DOIs within reference list entries.
Hyperlinks should appear in blue, underlined text, not in plain text.
Include the words "Retrieved from" before providing the DOI
Hyperlinked DOIs should begin with "www."
Leave links live if the work is to be published or read online
Which of the following is TRUE about a book reference?
First you identify the publisher, then the location.
There should be a semicolon between the location and the publisher.
The title of the book should be in italics.
All of the above are true about book references.
"When you buy a book at a bookstore or order a copy off the internet, you do not write the name of the (online) bookstore in the reference. And when you go to the library and get a book off the shelf, you do not write the name of the library in the reference. It is understood that readers will go to their bookstore or library of choice to find it."
This example is provided to help illustrate what principle?
Too much information can overwhelm and confuse a reader.
People are usually honest and can be trusted.
That it is usually not necessary to provide database information on a reference list entry.
Databases often quarrel with bookstores over providing access to information.
Which of the following is NOT true about quoting passages with fewer than 40 words?
If the citation appears at the end of a sentence, put the end punctuation before the closing parenthesis for the citation
The quote is incorporated into the text.
The quote is enclosed in double quotation marks.
The page number appears within parentheses immediately after the ending quotation marks.
Which of the following is TRUE of quotations with 40 or more words?
The quote is enclosed in double quotation marks.
The quote is displayed in a freestanding block of text.
The block of text is indented a quarter inch from the margin.
The block of text is single-spaced.
If you are quoting material that contains spelling or grammatical errors, you should fix the errors when incorporating that material into your paper.
True
False
If you want to emphasize a word or words in a quotation,
underline the word or words, with the words "emphasis added" in brackets..
italicize the word or words, with the words "emphasis added" in brackets.
bold the word or words, with the words "emphasis added" in brackets..
When determining the number of authors to include in a citation,
for a work with one or two authors, include the author name(s) in every citation.
for a work with three or more authors, include the name of only the first author plus “et al.” in every citation (even the first citation).
for a group authored publication, spell out the name of group fully in the first citation (e.g., National Public Radio [NPR]), then use the abbreviation in the second and subsequent citations.
All of the above
