Scavenger Hunt

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APA and Center for Writing Excellence Scavenger Hunt

For each of the questions below you should look at both The Center for Writing Excellence and your hardcopy text: American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. (5th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Submit your responses to the following APA questions:

1. If more than one author is listed, must all authors be listed in the citation?

1. Is the author’s full name used in the References page entry?

2. If no year is listed for an in-text citation, what should be listed?

3. What is the minimum information needed for an in-text citation?

4. What abbreviations are used before page (if listed) in an in-text citation?

5. What is used for the author’s name in the in-text citation if the article’s author is not listed as “anonymous” or at all?

6. On the References page, what words of an article or book title are capitalized?

7. What U.S. cities do not require a state when listed on the References page?

8. Are quotation marks used for titles of articles in the sources listed on the References page?

9. How is the state abbreviated for the publisher’s location on the References page?

10. Are any sources listed in the References page italicized instead of underlined?

11. What pages of your text (or "your individual paper" [as referred to in Assignments section of syllabus]) are numbered in APA formatting?

12. If the title of your essay is “The Paragraph and You: A Study of Organization,” in how many places of the document would the full title be listed?

13. How far from the top of the page is the header?

14. What is the suggested length of an abstract?

15. What point size is used for the font in APA?

16. When is the only time single spacing is used in APA?

17. Are there any extra spaces between paragraphs of an APA paper?

18. How are personal...