APA Format Mastery

In which sentence has the quotation been integrated the most successfully?

"Facing the issue squarely and approaching Gen X workplace issues as issues of cultural diversity" will help managers from both generations work together (Keaveney, 2004, p. 103).

Which is the correct format for referencing an article called "The biological, social and clinical bases of drug addiction: commentary and debate," by J. Altman, B. J. Everitt, T. W. Robbins, S. Glautier, A. Markou, D. Nutt., R. Oretti, C. Philbin, and G. D. Phillips. It was published in 1996 in Psychopharmacology, an online journal; ISSN 0033-3158, and Volume 125, Issue Number 4, pages 285 - 345.

Altman, J., Everitt, B. J., Robbins, T.W., Glautier, S., Markou, A., Nutt, D., ... Phillips, G. D. (1996). The biological, social and clinical bases of drug addiction: commentary and debate. Psychopharmacology, 125 (4), 285 - 345.

The book is called The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. It was published in 1989 by Routledge in London, England. How should it appear as a reference at the end of your paper?

Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G., & Tiffin, H. (1989). The empire writes back: Theory and practice in postcolonial literatures. London, England: Routledge.

Identify the correct parenthetical citation for a quote that comes from page seven in this book: Tannen, D. (1998). The argument culture. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Random House.

Every issue we see discussed on television appears to be set up as an argument: "In the argument culture, criticism, attack, or opposition are the predominant if not the only ways of responding to people or ideas" (Tannen, 1998, p. 7).

The original quotation about machinists reads, "The machinists use various tools, such as hammers and tongs, on a daily basis" (Brown, 2003, p. 311). Which sentence has used the quotation correctly to fit into it grammatically and logically?

Historians have discovered that "machinists use[d] various tools...on a daily basis" (Brown, 2003, p. 311).

Which example of a block quotation is correct? Four periods were used in the ellipses because what follows the ellipses comes from a different sentence later in the paragraph. (Use three periods when removing one or more words from a single sentence.)

In How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, Michael Gelb (1998) claims that: A healthy diet and aerobic, strength, and flexibility training are key elements in achieving and maintaining well-being, but your fitness regimen is incomplete without a constructive approach to body awareness, poise, and ambidexterity. These elements form the "missing link" in many fitness programs....Body image and awareness play a tremendous role in determining self-image and self-awareness. (p. 199)

The original quotation follows statistics on the increase in eighteen to thirty-four-year-olds owning their own businesses: "The trend may dilute corporate pools of promotable junior managers but provide needed infrastructure for corporate outsourcing" (Keaveney, 2004, p.102-103). Which paraphrase is acceptable?

Increasingly, members of the younger generation are becoming entrepreneurs rather than making themselves available to work their way up the management scale for an individual company; the difficulties this may cause for companies is offset by the services as subcontractors they can provide as outsourcing becomes more necessary and more common (Keaveney, 2004).

The website is called William Faulkner on the Web, and the page you cited is called Faulkner Filmography. The site's author, John B. Padgett, last modified the page on Monday, October 09, 2000 at 11:56 AM. The URL is http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/films.html. Let's say you accessed it March 5, 2006. Which is the correct entry as it should appear on the references list?

Padgett, J. B. (2000, October 9). Faulkner filmography. William Faulkner On the Web [Website]. Retrieved from http://www.mcsr.olemiss. edu/~egjbp/faulkner/films.htmlpdiv>

According to APA format, the list of references which appear at the end of your paper is called

References

On Feb. 20, 2006, you interviewed Shaun White, who won an Olympic gold medal in snowboarding at Turin on Feb. 20, 2006. Which citation is correct?

Shaun White says that he is "sick of being called The Flying Tomato" (personal communication, February 20, 2006).

Identify the correct parenthetical citation for this source the first time it appears in your paper: Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G. & Tiffin, H. (1989). The empire writes back: theory and practice in postcolonial literatures. London, England: Routledge.

Therefore, readers need to remember that "the first post-colonial society to develop a 'national' literature was the USA" (Ashcroft, Griffiths, & Tiffin, 1989, p. 15).

The original quotation discussing melanoma treatment talks about "Thirty-one patients with histologically confirmed unresectable measurable metastatic melanoma [who] were enrolled [in this] study" ("Melanoma," 2006, p. 372). Which paraphrase is done correctly and best for a lay audience (one unfamiliar with the medical terminology)?

This study used thirty-one patients whose melanoma (a type of skin cancer) could not be removed by surgery and had obviously spread ("Melanoma," 2006, p. 372).

You interviewed Pat Sweeney, a cardiologist, for your paper on Jan. 10, 2006 at 2 p.m. in the doctor's home. What is the correct entry for the list of references?

You should not reference this source under References.

The references at the end of your paper should appear

in alphabetical order by authors' surname or by title (if there is no author), regardless of type of reference (book, film journal article, website, etc.).

Identify the correct parenthetical citation for a quote from page one hundred and three from this source: Keaveney, S. (2004). When MTV goes CEO. In D. Brundage & M. Lahey (Eds.), Acting on words (pp. 99-103). Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Pearson.

According to Keaveney (2004), "Before mid-millennium, Gen Xers will be the CEOs of the future" (p. 103).