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1. Select the sentence that contains an error

APA style is used in the social sciences.
CBE style is used in biology as well as in some other sciences.
MLA style is used everywhere else.

2. Select the sentence that contains an error

In MLA style, a short prose quotation three lines long is set off as a block quotation.
In MLA style, a short prose quotation no more than four lines long is integrated into the text of your essay and enclosed in quotation marks.
In MLA style, all quotations longer than four lines long are set up as block quotations by being set off from the body of the essay and indented ten spaces.

3. Select the sentence that contains an error

In MLA style, parenthetical references always include the author's name and the date of publication of the work being cited.
In MLA style, the minimum information you must give in a parenthetical reference is the page number of the work.
In MLA style, parenthetical references must include the author's name if the author's name is not in the text of the essay before the quotation.

4. Select the sentence that contains an error

In MLA style, if there is more than one work by an author, and the identity of the work is not introduced in the lead-in to the quotation, you must include the work's title in the parenthetical reference.
In MLA style, if there is more than one work by an author and the identity of the work is introduced in the lead-in to the quotation, you do not include the title of the work in the parenthetical reference.
In MLA style, if there is more than one work by an author and the identity of the work is introduced in the lead-in to the quotation, you still add the title of the work to the parenthetical reference.

5. Select the sentence that contains an error

In MLA style, if there are three or more authors, you name all the authors if you must cite the authors' names in a reference.
In MLA style, if there are two or more authors, you name the first author and follow that by et al. if you must cite the authors' names in a reference.
In MLA style, if there are four or more authors, you name the first author and follow that by et al. if you must cite the authors' names in a reference.

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6. Select the sentence that contains an error

In MLA, the list of references at the end of an essay is titled works cited.
In MLA, works cited entries are listed in alphabetical order as determined by the lst names of the authors.
In MLA, works cited entries are listed in the order they appear in the text of the essay and are numbered.

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7. Select the sentence that contains an error

In APA style, parenthetical citations use an author-page system.
In APA style, parenthetical citations use an author-date system.
In APA style, if the author's name is in the text before a quotation, you place the year of publication of the work in parentheses after the author's name.

8. Select the sentence that contains an error

In APA style, a short quotation is considered to be anything shorter than forty words long.
In APA style, a short quotation is anything shorter than four lines long.
In APA style, a short quotation is placed in quotation marks.

9. Select the sentence that contains an error

In APA style, if you have a citation for a work by three authors, you place all of the authors' names in the parenthetical reference.
In APA style, if you have a citation for a work by five authors, you place all of the names in the parenthetical reference.
In APA style, if you have a citation for a work by six authors, you place all of the names in the parenthetical reference.

10. Select the sentence that contains an error

In APA style, if the author's name is not available, you include the title of the work in the parenthetical reference.
In APA style, if the work is authored by a corporation, you use the name of the corporation as the author of the work.
In APA style, if there is more than one author by the same last name, you include the first author's full name in all of his or her citations.

11. Select the sentence that contains an error

In APA style, the list of references at the end of the essay is called Works Referred To.
In APA style, a reference entry uses an author's last name and initials to identify the author.
In APA style, the second element of the reference entry is the date of publication of the work.

12. Select the sentence that contains an error

In APA style, books listed in the list of references at the end of your essay have their titles underlined.
In APA style, articles in a journal listed in the list of references at the end of your essay have their titles in quotation marks.
In APA style, in the list of references at the end of your essay, an article from a journal that you have found on a web page does not have its title underlined.

13. Select the sentence that contains an error

In MLA style, Web addresses are set off by angle brackets < >.
In APA style, Web addresses are not divided between two lines.
In APA style, Web entries are set off by angle brackets < >.

Fill in the blank in each of the following questions

14. In MLA style, if the author's name is Smith and the lead-in to the quotation mentions his name, the reference will be __________.

(Smith 342)
(341)

15. In MLA style, a poetry quotation that is two lines of poetry long has its two lines separated from each other by ____________.

a line
a slash mark

16. In MLA style, in an essay, the title of a book is ____________..

in quotation marks
underlined

17. In MLA style, a long block quotation is ____________spaced.

single-
double-

18. In MLA style, if a work titled "Recent Thoughts" has an unidentified author and your reference is from page 5 of the journal it is in, the parenthetical reference will be ____________ .

("Recent Thoughts" 5)
(Unidentified Author 5)

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19. In APA parenthetical citations, you ____________ place a comma between the author's name and the date of publication.

should
should not

20. In APA style, if you introduce the author's name in the text of your essay before a quotation, you place the date of publication of the quotation ____________

in parentheses at the end of the quotation
in parentheses just after the author's name in the text of your essay

21. In a long block quotation in APA style, you indent the quotation ____________ spaces and place the page number in parentheses at the end of the quotation.

five
ten

22. In APA style, personal communications, such as letters and memos, are credited in ____________ .

the list of references at the end of the essay
in the text of the essay in a parenthetical citation but not in the list of references at the end of the essay

23. In APA style, the title for the list of references at the end of an essay is __________.

List of References
References

 

24. APA style uses a ________in the first line of a reference entry.

paragraph indent
either a paragraph indent or a hanging indent

Answer whether the following statements are true or false

25. In MLA style, in a works cited reference for a poem in an anthology, the first name to appear in the reference is the editor of the anthology's name.

true
false

26. In MLA style, if you are writing a works cited entry for an introduction to a book, after the introduction's author's name, you write Introduction. The word introduction is followed by the title of the book, the author or editor of the book's name, and the publication information.

true
false

27. In MLA style, if you are writing a works cited entry for a government publication and the publication does not list the name of the author, you name the government that published the work and follow that with the name of the government agency that issued the work.

true
false

28. In MLA style, in a works cited entry for an article in a journal that is paginated by issue, you do not need to include the volume or issue number.

true
false

29. In MLA style, in a works cited entry for an article in a daily newspaper, you list the date and page number like this: June 17. 2001: A6.

true
false

30. In MLA style, in a works cited entry, a film can have, as the first element of its entry, the title of the film, the director's name, or a performer's name.

true
false

31. In MLA style, in a works cited entry, you list personal communication under the writer's name and follow his name with the notation Letter to the author.

true
false

32. In APA style, in a parenthetical reference, if you have named the author and listed the date of publication before a quotation, all you need in the parenthetical reference after the quotation is the page number of the quotation in this manner: (page 54).

true
false

33. In APA style, if you are referring to two or more works by an author, you list the works by dates of publication, separated by commas like this: (Lee, 2001, 1999, 1985).

true
false

34. In APA style, in a reference entry at the end of an essay, after the author's name, you write the title of the work followed by the date of publication.

true
false

35. In APA style, in a reference entry, the title of an article is in quotation marks.

true
false

36. In APA style, the page header on the upper right hand corner of every page of an essay includes the first two or three words of the essay title followed by the page number.

true
false

37. In MLA style, the page header on the upper right hand corner of every page of an essay includes the first two or three words of the essay title followed by the page number.

true
false