If you would like practice identifying incorrect elements in a reference, please try this exercise! You will receive the correct answer after every question, as well as see all the right answers at the end of the practice.
It is correct
The first line should be indented 0.5"
There should be a hanging indent of 0.5"
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.
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
True
False