APA Citation Exercise

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First name:

Instructor's name:

1. You need to cite a book that you read. The author is William K. Klingaman and the title is Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation. The book was published in 2001 by Viking Press in New York.

The correct way to cite this book in your bibliography is (see APA example #1, Book):

a. Klingaman, W. K. Abraham Lincoln and the road to emancipation. New York: Viking Press, 2001.

b. Klingaman, William K. (2001). Abraham Lincoln and the road to emancipation. New York: Viking Press.

c. Klingaman, W. K. (2001). Abraham Lincoln and the road to emancipation. New York: Viking Press.

2.You want to include in your bibliography an article or a book written by two people.

The correct way to include both their names in the citation (according to APA style) is (see APA example, #2, Book):

a. Becker, M. B., & Rozek, S. J.

b. Becker, M. B. & S. J. Rozek

c. Becker, Mark B. & Rozek, Susan J.

3. You have an article with one author from a journal that you want to include your bibliography.
Here is the information about the journal.

journal title: Issues in Law and Medicine
volume and issue: volume 46, issue 4
page numbers: 125-136.

How would you write just the journal part of your citation in APA style? This is the information you put after the author and the article title. (See APA example, #5, Journal)

a. Issues in Law and Medicine, v.46, issue 4, pg. 125-136

b. Issues in Law and Medicine, 46(4), 125-136.

c. Issues in Law and Medicine, 46 (4), 125-136.

4. You found several articles that you used for your paper that were full-text from the library's databases. The one below was from the database Academic Search Premier:

The proper way to cite this article in your bibliography in APA style is (see APA Example #8, Online Journal):

a. Norvilitis, J. M., and Santa Maria, P. (2002) "Credit card debt on college campuses: Causes, consequences, and solutions." College Student Journal 36(3), 356-364. Database on-line. Retrieved September 8, 2003 from Academic Search Premier http://www.epnet.com/.

b. Norvilitis, J. M. & Santa Maria, P. (2002). Credit card debt on college campuses: Causes, consequences, and solutions. College Student Journal 36(3), 356-364. Retrieved September 8, 2003 from Academic Search Premier database.

c. Norvilitis, J. M. and Santa Maria, P. (2002). Credit card debt on college campuses: Causes, consequences, and solutions. College Student Journal 36(3), 356-364. Available from Academic Search Premier database: http://www.epnet.com/. [September 8, 2003].

5. You used information for a research paper from a website that is part of the Web4Health Web site that you viewed on Sept. 15, 2003. The page you want to use is written by Gunborg Palme called: How Media Affect Body Image of Women. It was most recently updated on August 9, 2003 and the URL is http://web4health.info/en/answers/ed-causes-culture-example.htm.

What is the correct way to cite this Web site? (See APA Examples #12, Web Site.)

a. Palme, G. (2003, August 9) "How media affect body image of women." Web4Health. Retrieved September 15, 2003, from .

b. Palme, Gunborg. (2003) How media affect body image of women. In Web4Health .

c. Palme, G. (2003, August 9). How media affect body image of women. In Web4Health. Retrieved September 15, 2003, from http://web4health.info/en/answers/ed-causes-culture-example.htm

6.You are writing a paper on the ethics of downloading music from the Internet. One article you used in your research comes from the Wall Street Journal. The article is titled "Will the Music Industry Sue Your Kid?" It appeared in the September 10, 2003 issue on page 1D and was written by Carl Bialik. You want your professor to know that you are using ideas from this article or paraphrasing, but you are not quoting directly. (See APA Examples #16, Parenthetical Reference.)

What is the correct way to make a parenthetical reference when you are quoting or paraphrasing another author's work?

a. Since the music industry has begun to sue young people who are helping download huge amounts of music from the Internet, some parents fear that they will have to pay large sums of money to protect themselves. Parents do not have to worry about being sued if they are unaware what their kids are doing. (Bialik, 2003)

b. Since the music industry has begun to sue young people who are helping download huge amounts of music from the Internet, some parents fear that they will have to pay large sums of money to protect themselves. Parents do not have to worry about being sued if they are unaware what their kids are doing. (Bialik, 1D)

c. Since the music industry has begun to sue young people who are helping download huge amounts of music from the Internet, some parents fear that they will have to pay large sums of money to protect themselves. Parents do not have to worry about being sued if they are unaware what their kids are doing. (Bialik, 2003, 1D)