APA Citation Formatting Quiz

When referencing an author

Last name, First initial.

for titles of publications like journals, magazines and newspapers capitalize

all words of four or more letters and all nouns of any length

Indentation requirement

hanging indent, 2nd line is one tab to the right of the initial line

Dates

immediately follow the first element of the citation

All citations require

institution or publication name

For newspapers you must provide the

month, day, and year

titles of books, journals and other long works

must be italicized

Reference entries

must be listed in alphabetical order

date for web source

must include date of posting or season or copyright year

date for book

must include year

date for magazine, newspaper or newsletter

must include year + month or year + month + day

titles of articles

must not be italicized

capitalization for books and articles

only the first word of the title and subtitle and all proper nouns

When noting page numbers, this is the proper APA format

p. 3 or pp. 199-207

URLs for online content must be provided but without

the underline (hyperlink must be removed)

Journals or magazines require the volume and issue number - which is italicized? example: 3(16)

volume number (the first number)