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APA EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSWhate does APA stand for? - Answers -American Psychological Association
What elements are required on an APA Style student title page? - Answers --Paper title
-author name
-author affiliation
-course number and name
-instructor name
-assignment due date
What information is included in a student author affiliation? - Answers -Name of the
department or division of the course to which the paper is being submitted and name of
the college or university attended
What element is required in the page header of both student and professional APA
Style papers? - Answers -Page number (aligned to the right margin)
What are the two types of capitalization used in APA Style? - Answers -Title case and
sentence case
Which type of capitalization is used for the titles of works in reference list entries? -
Answers -Sentence case (meaning most words are lowercase)
. Which words do you capitalize when writing the title of a work in a reference list entry?
- Answers --First word of the title and any subtitle
-Any proper nouns appearing in the title
-Any nouns followed by numerals or letters
How should you introduce an abbreviation in the narrative text of an APA Style paper?
Provide an example. - Answers -Present both the full version of the term and the
abbreviation. Write the full term first, and then place the abbreviation in parentheses
after it.
Example: posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
When are abbreviations used for units of measurement (e.g., meter, kilogram) in the
text? Provide an example - Answers -Units of measurement are abbreviated when
accompanied by numeric values.
Examples: 8 m, 19 kg
What units of time are abbreviated in the text when accompanied by a numeric value?
Provide at least three examples. - Answers -Hours, minutes, seconds, and any other
divisions of the second are abbreviated.
Examples: 24 hr, 5 min, 30 s, 15 ms
, What Latin term meaning "and others" is used in both narrative and parenthetical in-text
citations? - Answers -et al.
What is the Latin abbreviation for "for example" that is used within parentheses? -
Answers -e.g., (remember to use periods after each letter and a comma after the
abbreviation)
In general, what numbers are expressed in words and what numbers are expressed in
numerals in an APA Style paper? - Answers --Numbers 0 through 9 are expressed in
words.
-Numbers above 10 are expressed in numerals.
What numbers are always expressed in words in the text of an APA Style paper? -
Answers --Numbers that begin a sentence, title, or heading
-Numbers in common fractions
-Numbers in universally accepted usage
What punctuation mark(s) do you use between items in a list of three or more items? -
Answers --Use commas, including before the last item, if no items in the list already
contain commas.
-Use semicolons, including before the last item, if an item in the list already contains a
comma.
What citation system is used in APA Style? - Answers -Author-date citation system
What is the difference between parenthetical in-text citations and narrative in-text
citations? - Answers --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.
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? - Answers --Place the
citations in alphabetical order
-separate them with semicolons.
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? - Answers --Write the
author name only once
-place the citations in chronological order by the year of publication
- separated with commas.
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