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1. What does the abbreviation “APA” stand for?

American Psychological Association
2. What manual is the official source for APA Style?
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition
3. What manual is the official source for APA Style for undergraduate students and new writers?
Concise Guide to APA Style, Seventh Edition
4. What is the current edition number of the APA Style manual?
Seventh edition
5. What elements are required on an APA Style student title page?
Paper title, author name, author affiliation, course number and name, instructor name, and
assignment due date
6. What information is included in a student author affiliation?
Name of the department or division of the course to which the paper is being submitted and
name of the college or university attended
7. What element is required in the page header of both student and professional APA Style
papers?
Page number (aligned to the right margin)
8. 9. What line spacing should you use for all text in an APA Style paper?
Double-spacing
9. 10. What paragraph alignment and paragraph indentation should you use for all text in an APA
Style paper?
All text is aligned to the left margin, with the first line of every paragraph indented 0.5 in.
10. Which heading levels are written in bold?
• All heading levels are written in bold
11. What should you write on the first line on the first page of text in all APA Style papers? Paper
title
12. What words or phrases are italicized the first time they appear in the text of an APA Style paper
• Key words or phrases, often accompanied by a definition
• Words or phrases from another language and not in the dictionary for the language in
which you are writing
13. Which words do you capitalize when writing the title of a work in a reference list entry?
• First word of the title and any subtitle
• Any proper nouns appearing in the title
• Any nouns followed by numerals or letters
14. What Latin term meaning “and others” is used in both narrative and parenthetical in-text
citations? (et al. )
15. What numbers are always expressed in words in the text of an APA Style paper?
• Numbers that begin a sentence, title, or heading
• Numbers in common fractions
• Numbers in universally accepted usage
16. What citation system is used in APA Style?
Author–date citation system
17. What is the difference between parenthetical in-text citations and narrative in-text citations?
• In parenthetical in-text citations, the author name and publication date (or equivalent
information) appear in parentheses.
• In narrative in-text citations, the author name and publication date (or equivalent
information) are incorporated into the text as part of the sentence.
18. When citing multiple works by different authors in parentheses, in what order should you place
the citations? What punctuation mark should you use between the citations?
Place the citations in alphabetical order, and separate them with semicolons.
19. When citing multiple works by the same author in parentheses, how many times should you
write the author’s name? In what order should you place the citations? What punctuation mark
should you use between the citations?
Write the author name only once, and place the citations in chronological order by the year of
publication, separated with commas.
20. When a work has three or more authors, what is the correct format to use for the authors’
names in the in-text citation?
Include the name of only the first author and write “et al.” in place of the other authors’ names
(unless doing so would create ambiguity).
21. What does it mean to paraphrase versus directly quote from a work
• A paraphrase restates another’s idea (or your own idea from a previous work) in your
own words.
• A direct quotation reproduces words verbatim from another work or your own previous
work.
22. What is the maximum length (number of words) of a short quotation (i.e., a quotation that is
placed in double quotation marks within the text of a sentence)?
39 words
23. 40. What four elements do most references contain?
Author, date, title, and source
24. What should you write instead of a date in a reference for a work with no date? (
Write “n.d.” (which stands for “no date”) in parentheses.
25. 44. What format do you use for all DOIs in a reference list?)
Current preferred DOI format: https://doi.org/xxxxx
26. How do you format an APA Style reference list? Specify its location in the text, including
whether it should begin on a new page, the label it should have, and the line spacing and
paragraph indentation to use
• Begin the reference list after the text on a new page.
• Place the section label “References” in bold and centered at the top of the page.
• Double-space the entire reference list (both within and between entries).
• Apply a hanging indent of 0.5 in. to each reference (the first line of the reference is flush
left and subsequent lines are indented 0.5 in.).

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