Final Exam Information
APA Study Guide
Spring 2019 Final Exam Information
1. What is the font style and size used for APA format?
2. What is the proper line spacing and margin width for APA format?
3. What is the proper format for the running head on
a. the title page?
b. the following pages?
4. Define plagiarism and self-plagiarism. How do prevent them?
5. What is proper reference citation in a paragraph if it is not a quote?
6. What are the definitions and characteristics of a short and long quote?
a. Characteristics of a short quote
i. Fewer than 40 words
ii. If incorporated into text and enclose the quotation with double quotation marks
iii. If incorporated mid-sentence, end the passage with quotation marks with source in parenthesis immediately after the quotation marks, and continue sentence
iv. Reference page number (Author(s), Year, p. 6). Or In year, author ….. (p. #).
b. Characteristics of a long quote
i. Forty or more words
ii. Displayed in a freestanding block of text without the quotation marks
iii. Indented a half inch from the left margin (Same as a paragraph indention)
iv. Double spaced
v. Cite the quoted sources and the page or paragraph number in parentheses after the final punctuation mark.
7. How is the page that list the references titled and in what format?
8. What references should be listed? What are examples of properly cited journal articles, textbooks, and personal communication?
a. Only those used in the research or preparation of the article
b. If they are not used in article, do not list.
9. What is seriation? How is seriation used in the body of a paper? Give examples?
10. How are numbers expressed according to APA format?
a. Use numerals to express numbers 10 and above
b. Use words to express number below 10; fractions, universally accepted uses, and number beginning a sentence, title or text heading
11. When citing references in text give examples of the following according to APA format:
