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Lesson 8 Exercise: APA Rules Observed
Citations refer paragraph number:line number in the paragraph, for example, 11:16 Scare quotes. The title block (title, authors, affiliations) is referred to as the Title; the references list as References.
Title Block
The Elements of (APA) Style: [Title in heading caps, centered on the page]
Britton W. Brewer . . . [Auhtors' names in plain text, centered on the page]
Springfield College [Author affiliation in italics, centered on the page]
Paragraph 1
Line 1: seven [Number under 10]
Line 2: (APA) [Abbreviation introduced/defined[
Line 4: (VandenBos, 1992) [Citation, one author]
Line 4: Publication Manual of the . . . [Book title in the text, italics & heading caps]
Line 6: (4th ed.; APA, 1994) [Merged edition number / citation]
Line 12: Madigan, Johnson, and Linton (1995) . . . [Citation in the text, three authors, no &]
Line 16: "is itself a model . . ." [Shorter quotation]
Line 19: (p. 428) [Page citation after quote]
Paragraph 2
Line 3: (Austin & Calderon, 1996; [Compound citation, two authors, &]
Line 4: Madigan et al., 1995) [Second citation in parentheses, three to five authors]
Line 10 Madigan et al. (1995) [Authors in the text, subsequent citation, three to five authors et al.]
Line 20: Counselor Education and Supervision [Journal name, heading caps]
Paragraph 3
Line 6: 296 individuals [Numbers 10 and over ]
Paragraph 4
Line 2: (i.e., number . . . [Latin abbreviation in parentheses only, except et al.]
Line 10: (rated on a scale from 1 [Numbers in a series written as numeral, in parentheses]
Line 10: [not at all familiar] [Anchors of a scale in italics]
Paragraph 5
Line 2: to (a) rate [Series in the text, itemized with lowercase letters in parentheses]
Paragraph 6
Line 3: 69% [APA style percentage with no space after the numerals]
Line 17 they had returned [Emphasis in italics]
Paragraph 7
Line 1: (M = 3.23, . . . [Descriptive statistics, APA symbols, space before/after operator]
Paragraph 8
Line 8: gave ratings of 4 or 5 [Numbers on a scale, in running text (no parentheses)]
Line 17: (r = .19, p < .05) [Inferential statistics in parentheses, standard symbols in italics, space before/after operators]
Paragraph 11
Line 16: "APA style sticklers" [Scare quotes for slang or coined expression]
References
Reference 1: Book [Corporate author, edition other than first, author as publisher]
Reference 2: Book [As above]
Reference 3: Article in an edited book [Two authors, two editors' names in normal order, inclusive pages with no digits dropped]
Reference 4: Journal article [Three authors, journal paged by volume, volume in italics]
Reference 5: Journal article [As above]
Reference 6: Article in an edited book [One author, three editors' names in normal order]
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