Test: What's Wrong With This Journal Article Reference?

It is correct

Only the initial should be provided for the first name: Godfrey. D.

There should be a comma after the period, but everything else is correct

It is correct

It is missing the month and day of publication

It is missing a period after the closing parenthesis, but is otherwise correct

It is correct

It should be italicized

It should be in sentence case (i.e., only the first word and proper nouns capitalized)

It should be italicized (i.e., only the first word and proper nouns capitalized) and in sentence case

It is correct

It should be italicized and in title case (i.e., all major words capitalized)

It should be italicized

It should be in title case (i.e., all major words capitalized)

It is correct

It should not be italicized

It should be provided in the same parentheses as the issue number

There should be a period after the volume number

It is correct

It should be italicized

No parentheses are necessary

There should be a period, not a comma, after the closing parenthesis

They are correct

Provide just the page range (e.g., 544-547); "pp." isn't required

It is not necessary to note the page range in a reference to a journal article

The page numbers should provide all pages cited from within the article (e.g., pp. 544, 555, & 547), not the range of pages where the article is located in the journal.

True

False

It is correct

It is incorrect to provide a DOI; the author should have provided the URL to the resource

"DOI" shouldn't be capitalized and there shouldn't be a period after the DOI

It is missing a retrieval date

It is correct

The first line should be indented 0.5"

There should be a hanging indent of 0.5"