APA Citation Quiz: Practice Test

The correct answer is "In bracket." When formatting the date in in-text citations, it is common practice to enclose the date within brackets. This helps to clearly indicate the date and separate it from the rest of the citation information. Italicizing or underlining the date is not a standard formatting convention for in-text citations.

Free-standing and long quotations are cited when they consist of 40 words or more. This means that if a quotation is shorter than 40 words, it does not need to be cited separately and can be included within the text. However, if the quotation is 40 words or longer, it should be indented and presented as a separate block of text, with a citation indicating the source.

Be mindful in using "and" versus "&" in writing the names of the authors in in-text citations.

Use "and" when the names of the authors are outside parenthesis (According to Bone and Johnson (1997), ...).
Use "&" when the names of the authors are in parenthesis ( ...conformity and prejudices (Bone & Johnson, 1997, p. 166)).

Remember that periods should be put after the parenthetical citation and not before it.

Be mindful of the use of the following: comma, period, "and" and &.

When your source does not have page numbers, you can cite your source by using the abbreviation "para." followed by the paragraph number. In this case, the correct answer is "According to Kalai (2011), ... ('The Little Things,' para. 6)." This indicates that the information being cited can be found in paragraph 6 of the source.

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When capitalizing titles, capitalize both words in a hyphenated compound word: Natural-Born Cyborgs.
Capitalize the first word after a dash or colon: "Defining Film Rhetoric: The Case of Hitchcock's Vertigo."

The correct answer is that Music and Emotions in the Brain: Familiarity Matters should be in quotation marks, while This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of Human Obsession should be italicized. This is the proper formatting for compound-word titles in in-text citations.

The given answer is the correct citation format for a television series episode. It includes the names of the writer and director in the format "Last name, First initial." It also includes the year of broadcast, the title of the episode in brackets, the name of the producer, the title of the series, the city where it was broadcasted, and the name of the distributor. This format follows the standard guidelines for citing a television series episode.

The given answer is the correct APA citation for a PowerPoint presentation titled "Media Theories" by T. Allison. It includes the author's name, the date of publication (1998), the title of the presentation, and the retrieval date and URL. The citation format follows the APA style guidelines for citing online resources.

The correct answer is the first option: Hernandez, L. (2014). The Modern Time. Digital cinema in the Philippines (pp. 22-34). Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press. This is the correct citation format for a book chapter, including the author's name, chapter title, book title, year of publication, page numbers, city of publication, and publishing house.

The correct answer is "Blanken, R. (2012). The common leadership styles. Retrieved November 14, 2017 from https://www.asaecenter.org/resources/articles/an_magazine/2013/january/8- common-leadership-styles". This answer is correct because it includes the author's name, the year of publication, the title of the article, the date retrieved, and the website where the article is located. It follows the proper format for citing a source, including the use of italics for the title and the inclusion of the full URL for the website.

The correct answer is: Davis, G., Dickinson, K., Patti, L., & Villarejo, A. (2015). Film studies: A global introduction. New York: Routledge Publishing House.

This answer correctly follows the APA citation style format for a book citation. It includes the authors' names in the order they appear on the source, the publication date in parentheses, the title of the book in italics, the city of publication, and the publishing house. The use of commas and the ampersand (&) between the authors' names is also correct according to APA style guidelines.

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The correct answer is "Schmidt (2017) argued that...(as cited in Kalai, 2017, p. 65)." This is the correct answer because it follows the proper format for citing an indirect source. The secondary source (Schmidt) is cited as the author who made the argument, and the original source (Kalai) is cited as the source from which the information was obtained. The year of publication and page number are also included to provide specific information about the source.

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The correct answer is "... of form, language and production is a text (Flores, Navarro, Tan, & Sta. Maria-De la Paz, 1997)." The reason this is the correct answer is because it follows the standard convention of using an ampersand (&) to separate the last two authors' names in the citation.

The correct answer is "Certain studies also tackled the level of cinema’s impact to the society ("The Use of Cinema," 2017)." This is the correct way to cite a web page if it does not have an author. The title of the web page is enclosed in quotation marks, followed by a comma, and then the year of publication in parentheses.

The given answer provides the complete citation for the study conducted by Howard Yakin and Charles Totu in 2014. It includes the authors' names, the title of the study, the title of the journal, the volume number, the page numbers, and the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) of the article. This information allows readers to easily locate and access the study if they are interested in reading it.

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