Quiz on APA format

WHAT WILL THE QUIZ BE LIKE? THERE WILL BE TEN QUESTIONS ASKING WHAT “INGREDIENTS” GO INTO PARAPHRASES, QUOTATIONS, TITLE PAGES AND REFERENCES PAGES.

APA (American Psychological Association) FORMAT

1. If there is anything on this list that you don’t know how to type in a Word.doc (for example, a page header, or left justification, or hanging indentation), the internet has many kind of instructions. There is also a handout on how to do these things: under “Files” in our Canvas page, there is a pdf called “How to Center Justify Hang” with this and other information.
2. In the unlikely event that any other teacher asks that a paper be done in MLA format (which is used in English and almost no other fields), ask the teacher whether you can use APA instead. Most will say yes.

Page Formatting

• 11-point font, Times New Roman
• Left justification
• References page
• Hanging indentation on the References page
• Double spacing throughout
• One-inch margins
• APA Title Page
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APA Citations

NOTE: These must be typed as shown here, with punctuation and spaces in the correct places.

When quoting, word-for-word, include…

• Introduction (Who is “talking” to the reader?)
• Author’s last name if not already in the introduction
• Quotation marks
• Year of publication
• Page number if from a paper source; paragraph number if from an online source
  • EXAMPLES
    • As Kate Cooper, an engineer at NASA, states, “My research suggests that the Striation Technique can aid in the process of vulcanizing rubber” (2016, p. 27).
    • Cardiologist Dr. Mary Diaz explains that, “Diabetes is on the rise” (2019, para. 6).

NOTE THE TYPING: end quotation marks, then a space, then the left parenthesis, then the year followed by a comma, then a space, then a lower-case p followed by a period (or lowercase para followed by a period if the quotation is from a website, then a space, then the page/paragraph number, then the right parenthesis, then lastly, the period at the end of the sentence.

• If one of the sources was a website with no author given, use the name of the website as the author.
  • EXAMPLE
    • According to WebMD.com, “The incidence of the disease is one in twenty” (2019, para.3).

APA Citations Continued

NOTE: These must be typed as shown here, with punctuation and spaces in the correct places.

When paraphrasing, include

• Author’s last name
  • If one of the sources was a website with no author given, use the name of the website as the author.
  • EXAMPLE
    • Only five percent of people contract this disease (WebMD.com, 2019).
  • Year of publication
    • EXAMPLE
      • The Striation Technique might be helpful in rubber vulcanization (Cooper, 2016).

NOTE THE TYPING: last word of the sentence, then a space, then the left parenthesis, then the author’s last name ONLY followed by a comma, then a space, then the year, then the right parenthesis, then lastly, the period at the end of the sentence.

References Page

1. The last page has the word References centered at the top, and lists the sources in alphabetical order by author’s last name. These should be the same last names used in the parenthetical citations within the text of the essay.
2. APA does not require that each word in a title be capitalized—only the first word and any proper nouns.

• Articles
  • Lastname, X. (year). Title of article, Publication, Volume #: Issue #, pages on which the article appeared.
    • EXAMPLE
      • Smith, K. (2019). Using APA format in essays for college, Journal of Writing, 3:8, pp. 234-456.
    • Books
      • Lastname, X. (year). Title of book, Publisher: City and state of publication.
        • EXAMPLE
          • Martinez, S. (2017). Illustrated history of the Incan civilization, Brown & Co., Boston: Massachusetts.
        • Websites
          • Lastname, X. (year). Title of article, url.
            • EXAMPLE
            • Ruiz, L. (2018). Poisonous tree frogs, www.reptiles.com/frogs/treefrogs/plr
          • If the source was a website with no author given, use the name of the website as the author.
            • EXAMPLE
              • com (2019). Symptoms of Type II Diabetes, www.webmd.com/diabetes/type2/symptoms/jkd.