Read each question carefully and choose the best answer to each one. Once finished, you can check each question to see why answer selected is correct or incorrect.
When citing a book, what is the proper textual formatting?
What is the medium of the following citation? Kaplan, Robert D. “History Moving North.” Atlantic Monthly Feb. 1997: 21-25. Print.
Article in a newspaper
Short work from a website
An article in a magazine
Magazine article taken from an online database
When citing an article, short story, poem, or other short work, in what way should the title of the work be formatted?
Italics
Underlined
Bold
Quotations
Which of the following citations is correct when citing a specific work in an anthology (a collection of works by different authors) with an editor?
Wilson, Kevin. “Housewarming.” New Stories from the South. Ed. Amy Hempel. Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 2010. 140-63. Print.
Ed. Amy Hempel. New Stories from the South. “Houswarming.” Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 2010. 140-63. Print.
Ed. Hempel, Amy. “Houswarming.” New Stories from the South. Wilson, Kevin. Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 2010. 140-63. Print
Wilson, Kevin. “Houswarming.” New Stories from the South. Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 2010. 140-63. Print.
Which of the following is correct when citing a work with multiple authors?
Keith, M. L., Tower, W, & Marcus B. Les Trois Amis…
Keith, Morris L., Tower, Wells, and Marcus, Ben. Los Tres Amigos...
Keith, Morris L., Wells Tower, and Ben Marcus. The Three Amigos…
Keith, Morris L., W.T., M.B.. Los Trois Friends…
When citing an article or book and no author is given, what is put in place of the author’s name?
Author Unknown
Unknown, Author
The title of article, short work, book, or website being referenced.
The date of publication.
When no author name is given in a print document or website, who may be referenced as the author of the publication?
Anyone
The corporation, government agency, or organization which provided the information being referenced.
It is within the public domain, and therefore does not have to be cited.
It is considered common knowledge and therefore does not have to be cited.
When two or more works by the same author are being included in a works cited page, which of the following pair of citations would be correct?
Baxter, Charles. The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot. MN: Graywolf, 2007. Print. Baxter, Charles. Through the Safety Net. New York: Vintage, 1998. Print.
Baxter, Charles. The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot. MN: Graywolf, 2007. Print. ”, ”. Through the Safety Net. New York: Vintage, 1998. Print.
Baxter, Charles. The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot. MN: Graywolf, 2007. Print. And: Through the Safety Net. New York: Vintage, 1998. Print.
Baxter, Charles. The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot. MN: Graywolf, 2007. Print. ---. Through the Safety Net. New York: Vintage, 1998. Print.
When following standard citations for citing an article from a journal, newspaper, or book retrieved from an electronic database, which of the following should be included?
The name of the database from which the article was retrieved.
The medium
The date of access
All of the above
In the following citation of an article retrieved from a database, which of the following is the database?
Bachelder, Chris. “Devious Shepherds of the Punch Line.” The Believer. 9.2 (2010): 17-28. Academic Search Premier. Web. 28 Feb. 2010.