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Higher Education

APA Documentation Quiz

In each of the following sections, combine the given elements to form a correct entry in an APA-style references page. You may be given more information than you need. Be careful to use correct spelling and punctuation.

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1. Author: Desmond Morton
Title: Labour in Canada
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario
Publisher: Grolier Limited
Year of publication: 1982
Medium: Book (print)
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2. Author: Matthew McClearn
Title of article: Next Crisis: Sovereign Debt?
Title of journal: Canadian Business
Volume no.: 83; Issue no.: 2
Year of publication: 2010
Page range: 12–13 (paginated by issue)
Medium: JJournal (print, no DOI)
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3. Author: Eric V. Regehr, Christine M. Hunter, Hal Caswell, Steven Amstrup, Ian Stirling
Title: Survival and Breeding of Polar Bears in the Southern Beaufort Sea in Relation to Sea Ice
Journal title: Journal of Animal Ecology
Volume no.: 79; Issue no.: 1
Page range: 117–127 (continuous pagination)
Year: 2009
Medium: Electronic article (article retrieved from an electronic database, with a DOI)
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2009.0163.x
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4. Authors: Pierre Filion, Karen Hammond
Title of article: When Planning Fails: Downtown Malls in Mid-Size Cities
Title of journal: Canadian Journal of Urban Research
Volume no.: 17; Issue no.: 2
Page range: 1–27 (paginated by issue)
Year of publication: 2008
Medium: Electronic article (article retrieved from an electronic database, without a DOI)
Journal home page: http://ius.uwinnipeg.ca/cjur.html
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5. Author: Reader's Digest
Title: Beginner's Guide to Gardening
Place of publication: Pleasantville, New York
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
Year: 2005
Medium: Book (print)
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6. Author: Johnmarshall Reeve
Title: Understanding Motivation and Emotion
Place of publication: Hoboken, New Jersey
Publisher: Wiley
Year of publication: 2005
Edition: 4th
Medium: Book (print)
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7. Author: Natural Resources Canada
Title: Canadian Oil Market Review of 2006 & Outlook to 2020
Year of publication: 2007
Medium: Electronic (report from a government website)
Organization home page: http://www.nrc.gc.ca
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8. Author of essay: Arthur F. Kramer, David J. Madden
Title of essay: Attention
Page range: 234–261
Editors: Fergus I. M. Craik, Timothy Salthouse
Title of book: The Handbook of Aging and Cognition
Place of publication: New York
Publisher: Psychology Press
Year of publication: 2008
Medium: Book (selected essay from an edited work, print)
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9. Author: Scott Beatty
Title: Superman: The Ultimate Guide to the Man of Steel
Place of publication: New York
Publisher: DK Publishing
Year of publication: 2002
Medium: Book (print)
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10. Authors: P. T. Costa, R. R. McCrae
Title of article: Personal Stability and Its Implications for Clinical Psychology.
Title of journal: Clinical Psychology Review
Volume no.: 6; Issue no.: 3
Page range: 401–423 (continuous pagination)
Year of publication: 1986
Medium: Electronic (article retrieved from an electronic database, with a DOI)
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1016/0272-7358(86)90029-2
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