MLA/APA Pre Quiz
In APA and MLA styles, each source listed in the Works Cited list must be cited in the text.
True
In MLA style, block (long) quotations should be -enclosed in quotation marks and single-spaced -indented one inch (all lines) and written without enclosing quotation marks -double-spaced, indented half an inch, and have no quotation marks -indented one inch (all lines) and single-spaced
double-spaced, indented half an inch, and have no quotation marks
When should et al. be used in APA style? A when the source has more than 3 authors B when the source has 6 or more authors C if the source has more than 2 authors and has already been mentioned once in the document Both B and C
Both B and C
Which of the following is cited correctly in APA style? -Dietel and Dietel define pointers as "variables that contain as their values addresses of other variables." (1999, p. 294) -Dietel and Dietel (1999) define pointers as "variables that contain as their values addresses of other variables" (p. 294). -Dietel and Dietel (C How to Program) define pointers as "variables that contain as their values addresses of other variables" (p. 294).
Dietel and Dietel (1999) define pointers as "variables that contain as their values addresses of other variables" (p. 294).
Which of the following is cited correctly in MLA style? -Aers and Stanley stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion (1996, p. 271). -Aers and Stanley stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion (271). -Aers and Stanley (1996) stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion (p. 271). -Aers and Stanley stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" (271) of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion.
Aers and Stanley stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion (271).
What is a running head in APA style? -a header included at the top of the page containing the author's name and the page number -an abbreviated form of the title, up to 50 characters long, in all uppercase letters at the top of each page
an abbreviated form of the title, up to 50 characters long, in all uppercase letters at the top of each page
To cite an anonymous source in-text, what information should be included in parentheses? -the word anonymous and the page number: (Anonymous 25) -the full source title and the page number: (The Wonderful World of Documentation 25) -the shortened form of the title (appropriately formatted) and the page number: (Wonderful World 25) -the page number: (25)
the shortened form of the title (appropriately formatted) and the page number: (Wonderful World 25)
What does a MLA in-text citation include in parentheses when the source is quoted directly and the author's name is not mentioned in the text? -Author and publication year: (Doe, 2007) -Author, publication year, and page number (preceded by p.): (Doe, 2007, p. 25) Author and page number separated by a comma: (Doe, 25) -Author and page number without intervening punctuation (Doe 25)
Author and page number without intervening punctuation (Doe 25)
If the author's last name is mentioned in the text, then it does not need to be included in parentheses.
True
In APA style, a separate title page is required for a document.
True