Chapter 343. Exercise APA 4-7
343.1 Section Title
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Exercise APA 4-7
APA documentation: identifying elements of sources
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Answer each question using information in the source provided.
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SOURCE: An edition other than the first
Source: Title page and copyright page from John R. Anderson, Cognitive Psychology and Its Implications, W. H. Freeman and Company, 2005. Reprinted by permission.
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Correct. The author’s first and middle names are given by initials only, and the date of publication given is the most recent date on the copyright page. For more help, see section APA-4b.
Sorry. The date of publication given should be the most recent date on the copyright page, in this case 2005. For more help, see section APA-4b.
Source: Title page and copyright page from John R. Anderson, Cognitive Psychology and Its Implications, W. H. Freeman and Company, 2005. Reprinted by
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Correct. Only the first word of the title and proper nouns are capitalized, and the edition number follows the book title. For more help, see section APA-4b.
Sorry. In APA style, only the first word of the title and proper nouns should be capitalized, and the edition number should follow the book title in parentheses. For more help, see section APA-4b.
Source: Title page and copyright page from John R. Anderson, Cognitive Psychology and Its Implications, W. H. Freeman and Company, 2005. Reprinted by
SOURCE: A chapter in an edited book
Source: Title page and first page of “The Art of the Ponytail” by Akkida McDowell in Body Outlaws: Rewriting Rules of Beauty and Body Image. Ed. Ophira Edut. Copyright © 2003. Reprinted by permission of Seal Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group.
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Correct. The name of the author of the chapter appears first in the reference list entry. For more help, see section APA-4b.
Sorry. Edut is the editor of the collection. The name of the author of the individual chapter should appear first in the reference list entry. For more help, see section APA-4b.
Source: Title page and first page of “The Art of the Ponytail” by Akkida McDowell in Body Outlaws: Rewriting Rules of Beauty and Body Image. Ed. Ophira Edut. Copyright © 2003. Reprinted by permission of Seal Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group.
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Correct. The author and title of the individual work appear first in the reference list entry. In addition, the book and chapter titles are capitalized correctly in APA style. For more help, see section APA-4b.
Sorry. For a work from an edited collection, the author and title of the individual work should appear first in the APA reference list entry. For more help, see section APA-4b.
Source: Title page and first page of “The Art of the Ponytail” by Akkida McDowell in Body Outlaws: Rewriting Rules of Beauty and Body Image. Ed. Ophira Edut. Copyright © 2003. Reprinted by permission of Seal Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group.
SOURCE: An article from a database
Source: Courtesy of Southern Cultures and the University of North Carolina Press, and Project MUSE, The Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Correct. The author’s name is given first, and the title of the article is not enclosed in quotation marks. For more help, see section APA-4b.
Sorry. In APA style, titles of articles are not enclosed in quotation marks. For more help, see section APA-4b.
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Correct. All major words in the journal title are capitalized, and both the volume number and the issue number are given because the journal is paginated by issue (each issue begins on page 1). For more help, see section APA-4b.
Sorry. In APA style, the date is given immediately following the author’s name, not after the volume number. The issue number is required because the journal is paginated by issue (each issue begins on page 1). For more help, see section APA-4b.
Source: Courtesy of Southern Cultures and the University of North Carolina Press, and Project MUSE, The Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Correct. In APA style, when the database record gives a digital object identifier (DOI), that number immediately follows the page number at the end of the entry. The name of the database is not used. For more help, see section APA-4b.
Sorry. In APA style, when the database record gives a digital object identifier (DOI), the name of the database is not used in the reference list, and the doi is given without parentheses. For more help, see section APA-4b.
Source: Courtesy of Southern Cultures and the University of North Carolina Press, and Project MUSE, The Johns Hopkins University Press.
SOURCE: A document from a website
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Correct. In APA style, the title of a blog post is not italicized. And the label “Blog post” is included in brackets following the title of the post. For more help, see section APA-4b.
Sorry. In APA style, the title of a blog post is not italicized. And the label “Blog post” should be included in brackets following the title of the post. For more help, see section APA-4b.
Source: Screenshot of The Brown Center Chalkboard. Courtesy of Brookings Institution’s Brown Center on Education Policy and author Tom Loveless. Photo: Reuters/Jim Young.
SOURCE: An article in a magazine
Source: Table of contents and first page of Marguerite Holloway, “When Medicine Meets Literature.” From Scientific American, Vol. 292 No. 5, May 2005. Reprinted by permission.
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Correct. For more help, see section APA-4b.
Sorry. The term “Insights” is a title for the section of the magazine and is not part of the article title. The article title should be cited as When medicine meets literature. For more help, see section APA-4b.
Source: Table of contents and first page of Marguerite Holloway, “When Medicine Meets Literature.” From Scientific American, Vol. 292 No. 5, May 2005. Reprinted by permission.
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Correct. In an APA reference list entry for a monthly magazine, the month is included with the year in parentheses, and the issue number is included after the volume number if each issue of the magazine begins on page 1, as in this case. For more help, see section APA-4b.
Sorry. In an APA reference list entry for a monthly magazine, the month should be included with the year in parentheses. For more help, see section APA-4b.
Source: Table of contents and first page of Marguerite Holloway, “When Medicine Meets Literature.” From Scientific American, Vol. 292 No. 5, May 2005. Reprinted by permission.